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File:anongreensleeves.nwc (August 2003) 4 kB
Full name of work:Greensleeves to a ground
Composer:Anonymous
Music category:Early Music
Instruments:Descant, Tenor Recorders and Basso Continuo
Name of file creator:Geoff Walker
e-mail address:geoff "dot" walker "at" ntlworld "dot" com
Website:http://homepage.dtn.ntl.com/geoffnhev
Running time:00:05:00
Comments:In the 16th. cent. Greensleeves seems to have existed as a set of variations on a ground, the tune we know today simply being one of them. In this example, the first melody is a variant of the familiar "Greensleeves Melody" and appears in Playford's Dancing Master under the title "Greensleeves and Yellow Lace". I have added a parallel set of variations for Tenor recorder to "fill out" the sound a little. If you want the original, simply mute the tenor line.