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14 Dec 16 - 01:22 PM (#3826497) Subject: Crown Winter with green: Butterworth From: Matthew Edwards Crown Winter with green, And give him good drink To physic his spleen Or ever he think. His mouth to the bowl, His feet to the fire; And let him, good soul, No comfort desire. So merry he be, I bid him abide: And merry be we This good Yuletide. Poem XXVI in Book IV of 'The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges' Geo. Bell & Sons, London, 1890 p.83 The Bodleian Library has recently discovered a long missing musical MS of a score by George Butterworth containing a setting of this short poem by Robert Bridges. The score is on display at Weston Library, Oxford from 14 - 18 December 2016. What's on at the Bodleian Library A world premiere performance of the song was broadcast on the BBC Radio 3 In Tune programme on Monday 12 Dec 2016, sung by John Lee, with piano accompaniment fron Guy Newbury. The performance is available for listening here on the BBC iPlayer at 39:40 minutes into the programme. (Ignore the list of tracks played in the programme on the BBC web page which names the singer as John Lee Hooker!) Matthew |
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14 Dec 16 - 09:01 PM (#3826581) Subject: RE: Crown Winter with green: Butterworth From: Steve Shaw Thank you for that, Matthew. Much appreciated. |
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15 Dec 16 - 06:39 AM (#3826620) Subject: RE: Crown Winter with green: Butterworth From: GUEST,Peter C Is the sheet music available does anyone know? |
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15 Dec 16 - 07:00 AM (#3826624) Subject: RE: Crown Winter with green: Butterworth From: gillymor Here's a quick shot of it at bbc: Crown Winter with green: Butterworth |
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15 Dec 16 - 11:16 AM (#3826681) Subject: RE: Crown Winter with green: Butterworth From: FreddyHeadey Sheet music... And there is a rather fuzzy pic of the whole of the first page on the university page here http://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-guy-newbury-performs-rediscovered-butterworth-piece-bbc-radio-3 > & open the actual photo in a new tab . And a better one on Facebook https://m.facebook.com/PembrokeOxford/photos/a.211369815661072.50311.210763445721709/957151784416201 > click 'View Full Size'. Maybe someone local should pop down and copy it out? I can't quite imagine it sung in a folky way... John Lee on soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/bodleianlibraries/butterworth I think if you sang the same notes but without the posh voice it would sound just as odd.(I'll see if I can do an ABC later!) |
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15 Dec 16 - 09:04 PM (#3826780) Subject: RE: Crown Winter with green: Butterworth From: GUEST,JaniceB There are more images at: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/14969003.Gem_of_a_drinking_song_lost_for_more_than_a_century_has_been_rediscovered/ |
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16 Dec 16 - 12:04 PM (#3826901) Subject: Tune Add: Crown Winter with Green (Butterworth) From: FreddyHeadey X:1 T:Crown Winter With Green C:Butterworth - (Robert Bridges poem) L:1/4 Q:1/4=150 M:3/4 I:linebreak $ K:Cmaj V:1 treble nm=" " %%wordsfont Times-Bold 17 %%MIDI program 0 V:1 z z c | B A E/D/ | C2 C/D/ | E/F/ G A | G z $ A | G/ F3/2 C | E2 D | c A B/A/ | G2 z | z z$ D | D3/2- C/ B,/C/ | D z D | B3/2- A/ ^G/A/ | B2 $ c | _e d c | _B2 A | ^G E c/B/ | A z z | z3 | z3 | z3 | z z $ c | B A E/D/ | C2 C/D/ | E/F/ G A | G z $ A | G/ F3/2 C | E2 D | c A B/A/ | G2 z | z z $ D | D3/2- C/ B,/C/ | E z D | B3/2- A/ ^G/A/ | B2 $ ^c | d ^c B | A ^F ^G | A2 z | z z z |] W: W:Crown Winter with green, W:And give him good drink W:To physic his spleen W:Or ever he think. W: W:His mouth to the bowl, W:His feet to the fire; W:And let him, good soul, W:No comfort desire. W: W:So merry he be, W:I bid him abide: W:And merry be we * W:This good Yuletide.* W: W:Poem XXVI in Book IV of 'The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges' W: Geo. Bell & Sons, London, 1890 p.83 W: W:(* ?sung on the John Lee track as W:And merry be we W:This cold Yuletide. W:And merry be we W:And merry be we W:This cold Yuletide.) W: W: W: |
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16 Dec 16 - 02:50 PM (#3826939) Subject: RE: ADD: Crown Winter with Green (Butterworth) From: GUEST,Peter C Thank you so much for the ABCs - I think I will transpose it up from C (may be a modal key) into D |