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02 May 09 - 10:55 AM (#2623130) Subject: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) A couple of wonderful Yeats poems set to music by two rather well known artistes here: The Song of Wandering Aengus The Stolen Child Though I vastly prefer The Waterboy's Stolen Child to McKennit's as in particular I don't like the way she (doesn't) scan, but I can't learn to sing The Waterboy's version.. Any more?? Not just by Yeat's, but those are the only three I know of off the top of my head. |
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02 May 09 - 12:41 PM (#2623173) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: GUEST, topsie John Betjeman Indoor Games near Newbury |
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02 May 09 - 12:43 PM (#2623174) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Terry McDonald Richard Lovelace's 'To Althea From prison' by Fairport Convention (with Dave Swarbrick singing.) |
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02 May 09 - 12:51 PM (#2623178) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Suegorgeous Check out The Wraiths - a band local to me who put Emily Dickenson's (and other poets') poetry to music: The Wraiths Myspace |
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02 May 09 - 01:21 PM (#2623183) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Shalini Loreena McKennitt also does 'The Lady of Shalott'. 'Down by the Salley Gardens' and 'The Two Trees' are also Yeats. Have you heard the several versions of Aengus? I know Karan Casey, Judy Collins and many others (I don't remember them) have done it. |
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02 May 09 - 01:28 PM (#2623186) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Shalini Also Poe's Annabelle Lee. I can't remember who I've heard singing it. |
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02 May 09 - 01:31 PM (#2623188) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Shalini Look at this thread and this . |
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02 May 09 - 01:47 PM (#2623196) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Many thanks for the suggestions, and those thread links - like a banana I forgot to do a search! |
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02 May 09 - 02:02 PM (#2623205) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) And no, I had no idea that several singers have set Aengus to music. In fact I only stumbled on the Donovan the other day. Frankly my folk musical knowledge is rather sparse as yet. Though Mudcat is helping me to slowly make amends! |
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02 May 09 - 03:29 PM (#2623231) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: GUEST,murray on saltspring William Blake - can't remember who's done it, but try "Ah sunflower! weary of time". |
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02 May 09 - 04:51 PM (#2623252) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Jack Campin There have been art-music settings of Blake by Britten (and presumably lots of other people), I can't think of one from the folk world. But Parry's setting of "Jerusalem" certainly has made the crossover into oral tradition. Byron's "We'll Go No More A-Roving" has been pretty popular over the years. (I just looked for versions on YouTube - there's an appalling one by Leonard Cohen with tasteless backing vocals and a better, but too melodramatic, one by Joan Baez). It's entirely normal in the Turkish folk scene for texts to be taken from high-art poetry (as far back as Yunus Emre in the 13th century). This would seem a rather odd question there. |
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02 May 09 - 07:27 PM (#2623310) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: GUEST,Dave MacKenzie Ed Miller used to sing WH Auden's "As I Walked out one Evening", and I've got a tune to Hugh MacDiarmid's "Oh Wha's the Bride" from "A Drunk Man Looks at a Thistle". Joan Baez amongst others used to sing Byron's "So We'll Go No MOre a-Roving". |
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02 May 09 - 08:08 PM (#2623327) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Sir Thomas Moore |
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02 May 09 - 10:18 PM (#2623364) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: GUEST,murrbob Several good renditions of "The Highwayman." Danny Doyle performs it as does, I believe, Loreena McKinnett. Also, Lord Byron's "Caledonia" sung by many performers. |
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02 May 09 - 11:19 PM (#2623373) Subject: RE: Classic Poetry Set to Music?? From: Shalini Donovan also sings 'The Owl and the Pussycat" :) |