Lyr/Tune Req: Nonesuch

Subject: Nonesuch lyrics and midi
From:
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 06:08 PM

I'm trying to find the lyrics and midi file of a song called Nonesuch (?). Anyone familiar with it? Thanks

Subject: RE: Nonesuch lyrics and midi
From:
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 06:11 PM

Nonsuch, or A la Mode de France?

Subject: RE: Nonesuch lyrics and midi
From: Harald
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 07:32 PM

You should provide more information. Nonesuch is a french baroque dance. Therefore: no lyrics.

Subject: RE: Nonesuch lyrics and midi
From: Rosebrook
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 09:07 PM

Hi,

Here is a web site that has a MIDI of Nonesuch. I thought Nonesuch was an English country dance. It's a short, modal tune.

http://www.g0nen.demon.co.uk/samples.html

Rose

Subject: RE: Nonesuch lyrics and midi
From:
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 09:44 PM

It's practically the same tune as 'A la Mode de France', a song of which title is the Percy folio MS. But Nonesuch is not a unique title, it's even a record label. Without something more to go on there's no answer to the question.

Subject: RE: Nonesuch lyrics and midi
From: Lucius
Date: 15 Apr 99 - 10:59 PM

Richard Thompson plays the English Country Dance tune "Nonesuch" on his Strict Tempo album. Bare Necessities does the same tune on their "Take a Dance" recording. Bare Necessities also plays it in its traditional minor befor going to the major "a la mode de France". The Barnes Book of English Dance has it notated both ways. I would be happy to send along a MIDI file, but I don't know how to post it here. If you want, send me your e-mail address and I can send it directly to you.

Subject: RE: Nonesuch lyrics and midi
From: Blue Shack
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 08:58 AM

I believe there is also a song, Nonesuch, in the musical "Big River."

Subject: RE: Nonesuch lyrics and midi
From: MMario
Date: 16 Apr 99 - 09:25 AM

And she shall bring the birds in spring
And dance among the flowers
In summer's heat her kiss is sweet
she sings in leafy bowers
She cuts the corn and harvests the grain
when the fruits of fall surround us
When days grow old in winter's cold
She draws her cloak around her

This the one you're looking for? I was always told it was a 16th century English country dance tune.

MMario

Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Nonesuch
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 10:58 PM

Me have of late been in England
vere me have seen much sport.
De raising of de Parliament
have quite pull'd down de Court
De king and queen dey separate,
and rule in ignorance.
Pray judge ye gentlemen if dis
be a la mode de France.

A vise man dere is like a ship
dat strike upon de shelves.
Dey prison all, behead and vip
all viser dan demselves.
Dey send out men to fetch deyr king
who may come home perchance:
O fy, fy, fy it is be gar
not a la mode de France.

Dey raise deyr valiant prentices
to guard deyr cause with clubs;
dey turn deyr bishops out of doors
and preash demselves in tubs.
De cobler and de tinker too,
dey vill in time advance;
Gar take dem all, it is (mort Dieu)
not a la mode de France.

Instead of bowing to dayr king
day vex him vith epistles;
dey furnish all deyr souldiers out
vith bodkins spoons and vhistles;
dey bring deyr gold and silver in,
de Brownists to advance,
and if dey be cheat of it all
'tis a la mode de France.

But if ven deyr vealth be gone
dey turn unto deyr king,
dey vill all make amends again,
den merrily we will sing.
Vive le Roy, vive le Roy,
ve'll sing, carouse and dance,
de English men have done fort bon,
and a la mode de France.