The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140608   Message #3235430
Posted By: Stower
07-Oct-11 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
Jack, you kind of answer your own "What?"

"Britten sets Adam lay ybounden ..." - exactly. We have the words but no tune and, since Britten is hardly contemporaneous with the text, we picked a winter tune by Neidhart von Reuental that fits the words exactly.