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advance.
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Date: January 22, 2009 9:07:28 PM CEST
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Subject: Re: Fwd: [LUTE] Re: Green Sleeves
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Green Sleeves
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I don't think there is such thing as a John Johnson's version of Green
Sleeves... ??? Probably you refer to the version in the Dd 3.18, Cambridge
Unibversity Library, which is obviously a consort part, but can, of course,
easily be adapted as a duet. But nothing in the manuscript points to that
This piece is very problematic.
But why do you think that it is obviously a consort part?
Lyle Nordstrom has attributed many anonymous trebles to Johnson. Others have
serious doubts ...
Rainer adS
Jean-Marie Poirier wrote:
I don't think there is such thing as a John Johnson's version of
True, I should have been more careful and said a treble part, but
nonetheless, it has a lot in common with other pieces in this manuscript with,
sometimes, the ascription for the consort and it is patent that this Holmes's
source contains a lot of consort parts, for example the Reade's pieces,
Oh, I forgot the little lute duet in the Pickering Lute Book... It is not
attributed to Johnson either and the date of this manuscript is around 1615, if
I remember well.
Jean-Marie
=== 20-01-2009 16:53:03 ===
A friend of mine is looking at different versions of Green Sleeves and
Oooops, correction : I meant the lute duet in the Folger Dowland ms (Ms
1610.1) f° 5 and not the Pickering... It's getting late here in France ! Time
to get some sleep ;-) !
Jean-Marie
=== 20-01-2009 22:28:12 ===
Oh, I forgot the little lute duet in the Pickering Lute Book... It is
Of course there is the Cutting variation. It might predate Ballet, as
Cutting seems to have died around 1596, but the ms Add 31392 LBL
(presumably a copy) appears to be c. 1605. However, the same is
probably true of version in the Ballet ms. It would presumably
predate the ms date of
