 Greensleeves to a ground |
| File: | anongreensleeves.nwc (August 2003) 4 kB |
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| 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: | 5:00 |
| 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. |