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Thread #129288 Message #2900738
Posted By: Valmai Goodyear
05-May-10 - 03:07 PM
Thread Name: Tune settings of folkies' poems/songs
Subject: RE: Tune settings of folkies' poems/songs
I expect everyone already knows this, but Vaughan Williams occasionally applied folk tunes he'd collected to hymns as a way of putting them back into circulation. To be a Pilgrim (A Blacksmith Courted Me) Lord of All Hopefulness (Banks of the Bann) and - I think - Immortal, Invisible (Some Tyrant Has Stolen My True Love Away) spring to mind. The tune of O Little Town Of Bethlehem came from an alarming song about the consequences of using bad language called The Ploughboy's Dream, which Coope Boyes & Simpson have recorded.
Valmai (Lewes)