Re: Greensleeves

"Daniel Kessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Certainly, it is a very old English ballad with the composer anonymous.
> Greensleeves does surface in Busoni's "Turandot" ..for whatever that's
> worth.

It is also what Mrs. Ford is playing on the mandoline at Falstaff's entrance
in the "love scene" of Vaughn Williams's "Sir John in Love."

I guess he wanted local color so the audience would know what country the
opera was taking place in.

Hans Lick