10 Mar 99 - 03:45 PM (#62283) Subject: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore From: Jim Krause Does any one have the lyrics and music to "Bendemeer's Stream?" I'm not sure I've spelled Bendemeer correctly. I'm pretty sure the melody was traditional, Moore seemed to frequently recycle folk melodies, the same way Robert Burns did. |
10 Mar 99 - 05:48 PM (#62295) Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore From: Bruce O. Go to Levy collection in Mudcat's Links, in 'Bibliographic Search' on the Levy website put in 'Bendemeer's' (Box 114, #26) |
12 Mar 99 - 05:38 PM (#62699) Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore From: Frank Maher Hi Soddy, Did You ever find the Words,after?????? If You didn't,I think I have them..... |
12 Mar 99 - 06:22 PM (#62714) Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore From: Bruce O. Susan Reed sang it on Elektra 126. I'm stumped; I have a late 19th century 'Complete Works of Thomas Moore', but it doesn't have "Bendeemer's Stream" or "Nothing in Life Can Sadden Us", both of which are given and attributed to Thomas Moore in 'The Vocal Library', London, 1818. |
12 Mar 99 - 10:50 PM (#62746) Subject: Lyr Add: BENDEMEER'S STREAM (Thomas Moore) From: Frank Maher |
12 Mar 99 - 11:17 PM (#62749) Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore From: Bruce O. The opening lines of all of Thomas Moore's songs in 'A Selection of Irish Melodies', (10 parts) and the tunes to which they were sung are listed in the Irish tune titles index on my website. |
13 Mar 99 - 11:20 AM (#62811) Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore From: Frank Maher Hi Bruce, How do I find Your Web Site???? |
13 Mar 99 - 12:27 PM (#62822) Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore From: Bruce O. www.erols.com/olsonw There are also some rare Irish songs at the beginning of the Scarce Songs 1 file. |
13 Mar 99 - 01:13 PM (#62836) Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore From: Bruce O. This may be as good a plce as any for a question. Moore's "Nothing in Life Can Sadden Us" commences "[Women] Dear creatures, we can't do without them". By 1828 some other songs were sung to the tune of "Dear creature, we can't do without them". Does anyone have this tune, or know where I can find it? Many of Moore's early songs were not in his books of 'National Songs', or in the 10 books of 'A Selection of Irish Melodies', and we may never have a complete listing of all of his songs. That old edition of Moore's Works that I have has a section at the end of about a dozen songs that it says were not in the 'London edition', but it still does not have all of them. Moore's songs in the Irish tune index on my website are listed from early reissues of the original seperate books, except for the 9th and 10th books, which I could not find. One or two of the original issues also gave some tunes, without songs.
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06 Oct 99 - 04:25 PM (#121419) Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore From: Jim Krause Thanks for all your help one and all, even though it took me awhile to get around to reading all this. Now I have quite a bit to go on. |
08 Feb 20 - 12:31 PM (#4033001) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bendemeer's Stream (Thomas Moore) From: keberoxu Well, this is too late for Bruce Olson, but, regarding the river: Bendemir is an archaic name for this river, and it is in the Middle East. That is why Thomas Moore included his lyric in an Oriental novel called Lalla Rookh, as opposed to his National Airs; it is sung by the ladies in the harem (!) Today this river goes by a different name. Aras / Araxes |
08 Feb 20 - 01:37 PM (#4033013) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bendemeer's Stream (Thomas Moore) From: meself I used to sing it as a kid - I don't recall if I sang the second verse though: it would be one heck of a mouthful. |
08 Feb 20 - 01:54 PM (#4033014) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bendemeer's Stream (Thomas Moore) From: GUEST,keberoxu All right, no wonder I felt confused. At the site itself, there is no such confusion. But we Westerners have been mistaken or have misled ourselves for several centuries about the name and the thing named. Band-i-Amir means "the dam [built by] the Amir." Amir is an office, not the name of a particular person. The dam was built on the river Araxes. It is the sort of dam which does two things: 1) provides a bridge by which traffic crosses the river 2) creates a reservoir out of the river |
09 Feb 20 - 01:38 PM (#4033223) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bendemeer's Stream (Thomas Moore) From: GUEST,Starship Lyrics and music at the following link. However, I don't know if it will be of any use to anyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FknhV83zCdI |