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Subject: Lyric Req. Corydon and Phyllis From: Banjoman_CO Date: 25 Jul 99 - 06:48 PM This is an old English song, I think. Does anybody else know it. I've look in the data base for it but couldn't find it. Could use some history and like songs if anyone can help. Appreciate it. Fred |
Subject: Lyr Add: YOUNG CORIDON AND PHILLIS (from D'Urfey) From: Murray on Saltspring Date: 26 Jul 99 - 03:01 AM What you're after may be that in Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719), V.126, called there simply "A Song: Set by Mr. Clarke", thus:
Young Coridon and Phillis
But as they were a Playing,
A thousand times he kiss'd her,
So many Beauties removing,
A last Effort she trying,
Young Coridon grown bolder,
The Nymph seem'd almost dying,
But Phillis did recover
Thus Love his Revels keeping, This has been attributed to Sedley, and appears in its "real" form [says Legman, Horn Book p. 195]in 1730, minus the "leering refrain". One can doubt this; I can see how the "harmless pastoral" makes sense and all that by itself, but it is obviously crafted to be ambiguous right there, and this had to be done first. Anyway, I hope this is what you're after. |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req. Corydon and Phyllis From: Barry Taylor Date: 26 Jul 99 - 11:47 AM I'll do a midi arrangement of the tune in about a week. I learned it from a (superb) James Last album from the 60's titled 'Last of Old England'. Like you, I couldn't find any info on it, so I didn't include it in my tunebook collection. |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req. Corydon and Phyllis From: Date: 26 Jul 99 - 05:01 PM Here's the Pills tune. The song first appeared with tune in Pills, III, 1707, after having been published without music in Poems by Persons of Honour and Quality, 1705. The attribution to Sedly isn't certain, but the song doesn't seem to to have been attributed to anyone else.
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Subject: RE: Lyric Req. Corydon and Phyllis From: Barry Taylor Date: 07 Aug 99 - 01:52 AM ...and here as promised is my multi-track arrangement of the tune titled Phyllida and Corydon, according to my very unofficial source. |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req. Corydon and Phyllis From: GUEST,Laura Brueckner - fond_heart@yahoo.com Date: 09 Feb 00 - 02:16 AM Is the song you're looking for 'Corydon's Farewell to Phyllis'? It's quoted in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - perhaps that might help. The line quoted, by Sir Toby, is: "Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone." Best of luck, and let me know if you find it - I'm directing a production of Twelfth Night soon and am looking for it too! Best o'luck. |
Subject: RE: Lyric Req. Corydon and Phyllis From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 09 Feb 00 - 03:06 AM Shakespeare's song is (complete with tune) in Robert Jones's 'The First Book of Songes and Ayres',1600. There have been several modern editions of this book. I have the lyrics (5 verses) but not the tune. |
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