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Thread #53361   Message #822533
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
09-Nov-02 - 09:52 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Parson's Farewell (Playford? Praetorius?)
Subject: RE: Origins: farewell to Parson's Farewell
yes, tunes really got around . Last summer I went to a workshop on Van Eyck variations. Van Eyck was a seventeenth-century recorder player (I forget in which Dutch city he worked). He was hired by the town to play in the cathedral and entertain the young. The tune of his which we studied was "Daphne", which I first encountered in Playford's collection.