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04 Dec 05 - 07:42 PM (#1620033) Subject: Shield tune for Lavin multiholiday song From: Haruo Christine Lavin says her "A Christmas/ Kwanzaa/ Solstice/ Chanukah/ Ramadan/ Boxing Day Song" (which I have the lyrics to but have not heard) has "Music by William Shield (1748-1829)" and Words by Christine Lavin. My question is, what is the tune? I know William Shield is accused of having composed The Miller's Daughter aka The Miller's Wedding aka I fee'd a lad at Michaelmas, to which Burns's Auld Lang Syne is routinely sung, but I can't seem to get her lyrics to fit it. So what tune is she talking about of Mr. Shield's? Haruo |
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04 Dec 05 - 10:04 PM (#1620123) Subject: RE: Shield tune for Lavin multiholiday song From: bbc I have the recording that the song is on. It doesn't give any additional information on the song, but Christine says that she learned many of the songs from Sol Weber & to contact him for further information at: solweber@juno.com Hope that helps! best, bbc |
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04 Dec 05 - 11:04 PM (#1620156) Subject: RE: Shield tune for Lavin multiholiday song From: Malcolm Douglas William Shield (a County Durham man by birth, who started out as a boatbuilder's apprentice) was a prolific musician, composer, arranger and conductor for the church and for the stage, so the bare information Ms Lavin provides is of very little help. There is a sound sample at her website ( http://www.christinelavin.com/ ), as it turns out: http://www.christinelavin.com/audio/CLavXmas.mp3 From a purely personal point of view, I can't say that I care for it. Perhaps the full-length version is easier on the ear, better balanced and a little more interesting lyrically. Maybe someone will recognise the tune from it, though. I'd best mention that it isn't We wish you a Merry Christmas, just in case somebody was thinking of suggesting that. On the whole, I'd suggest that you ask Ms Lavin rather than us; she presumably already knows the answer. |
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05 Dec 05 - 12:38 AM (#1620188) Subject: RE: Shield tune for Lavin multiholiday song From: Haruo "a little more interesting lyrically" is surely the one thing this song ain't... Thanks, though, both of you. I don't have sound here so can't listen to the clip... Haruo |