On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 17:38, Alain Veylit <[1]al...@musickshandmade.com> wrote:
Just imagine if J.S. Bach was credited by a contemporary publisher with a song entitled "Once, twice, thrice, I Julia tried", would that raise an eye brow?? Just curious: did Mozart compose anything we'd consider "bawdy" or tavern material?? Or other composers, besides Lasso?? 'Leck mich im Arsch' comes to mind. [2]http://mentalfloss.com/article/55247/3-dirty-songs-mozart On 08/09/2018 10:06 PM, howard posner wrote: >> On Aug 9, 2018, at 9:15 PM, Alain Veylit <[3]al...@musickshandmade.com> wrote: >> >> Like Henry Purcell, who seems to have found his name attached to a very large number of bawdy songs in 17th century England, if I recall correctly. > Is there any reason to think he didn't write the music for all those catches? I'm not aware that his authorship has ever been questioned. > > He lived in an age of relaxed sexual mores and worked a great deal in the theater. > To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:al...@musickshandmade.com 2. http://mentalfloss.com/article/55247/3-dirty-songs-mozart 3. mailto:al...@musickshandmade.com 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html