Tune Req: Lilliburlero

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: GUEST,mjschryver
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 07:44 PM

Thanks for all the help, everyone. You've been enormously wonderful.

Cheers,
Mark James Schryver

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:54 PM

"My Thing is my own" (original title = "Trap, or the Young Lass") was originally to be sung to "Trap's Delight" or "I know what I know", but neither are known. Also "My thing is my own" is about six years earlier than "Lilliburlero".

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: GUEST,Lutenist
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:21 PM

How many sets of words are there to this song? I'm sure I've heard The Devil and the Farmer's Wife and other songs sung to it?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: delphinium
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 12:26 PM

It is also the tune used for these songs in the DT:

LILLI BURLERO
THE PROTESTANT BOYS
NOTTINGHAM ALE
MY THING IS MY OWN
OXYGEN GAS
INVITATION TO NORTH AMERICAY
THE MODES OF THE COURT
THE JOURNALIST DISPLAY'D
CONGLETON BEAR

"Nottingham Ale" is the one that goes through my head. Never heard of "Oxygen Gas" or "The Journalist Display'd" before - the wonderfully cynical Journalist one from 1740 is especially good. The DT only has 1 verse - I will transcribe the whole thing from the Bodleian Library site and put it on a new thread.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 10:11 AM

"Lilliburlero" is the theme tune of BBC World Service (Click on "Latest World News Bulletin").

~Masato

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: Snuffy
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 09:38 AM

I thought that was "Garryowen", Gurney, not "Lilliburlero"

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 08:07 AM

Here it is at JC's ABC tune finder.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: Gurney
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 05:23 AM

Hardly expected this on an American site. It is or was the musical ride of the Seventh Cavalry, and in the films Custer and his men rode out to meet destiny to its strains....

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 06:27 PM

I think it is here somewhere...

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5567/ooooo.html

conrad

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: delphinium
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 03:18 PM

Sheet music and midi at http://www.music-scores.com/instrument/composer.php?instrument=Piano&name=Purcell

Lots of threads on this, mostly under the alternate spelling "Lillibulero."

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 11:00 AM

Copies as ABCs are B286 and B287 among the broadside ballad tunes at www.erols.com/olsonw. Chappell's PMOT was reprintd by Dover Publications in 1965.

Subject: Tune Req: Lilliburlero
From:
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 10:44 AM

Does anyone have the sheet music for "Lilliburlero"? I've the lyrics, so I'm fine there. But all I've got of the music is a snatch of the tune in a midi file, and I can't play by ear; I need notes to look at.

If anyone knows where the sheet music might be found, online or elsewhere, please lemme know.

Thanks much,
Mark James Schryver

PS
I saw, in an earlier thread that this music is probably in "Chappell's Popular Music of Olden Times." Unfortunately, I can't find even a library copy of this book. Possibly because it's over 160 years old . . .
MJ