The casual reader might mistake Sleep stay awhile for Donne, though the opening is similar, it is not Donne. So so, leave off has one or two very minor differences from Donne's text, such as changing ask'd to ask. as well as the usual orthograhic confusion of soules and selves. dt
At 03:45 PM 6/16/2008, you wrote: >Dowland? Which song? > >Together with Marlow, Donne and Dowland shared the same female patron, Lucy, >Countess of Bedford. I suppose a concert programme of the three has been >done many times? > >Rob > >2008/6/16 howard posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Rob MacKillop wrote: > > > > > What lute and voice settings are there of poems by John Donne (a > > > long-time > > > favourite poet of mine)? I'm also interested in settings for viols > > > and voice > > > or voices. > > > > Ferrabosco set "The Expiration" as "So, so, leave off this last > > lamenting kisse" (the seventh song in his book). > > > > I just did a web search and found this irritatingly tantalizing > > feature about Donne's poetry in songs: > > > > http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/was- > > john-donne-the-cole-porter-of-his-time-491049.html > > > > It will tell you: > > > > > By searching music manuscripts in the British Library and the > > > Bodleian in Oxford, Holmes found 10 settings of Donne's verse made > > > by some of the leading English composers of his day, including John > > > Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Alfonso Ferrabosco and William Corkine. > > > > > > > But gets no more specific than that. > > -- > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >--
