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Atherley
Lady of the Order of Bluestocking Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 494	Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 2:52 am    Post subject:   Thanks much, Ladies! My pleasure. I'm always trying to justify the expense of that master's in music! _________________ Ath Bed in a Bog has Runned Away
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KeiraSoleore
Moderator Princess Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 5898 Location: Seattle	Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 3:46 pm    Post subject:   Anne, I just revisited your music blog in detail. Fabulous, fabulous resource. Thanks! _________________ Medieval & Regency Writer keirasoleore.blogspot.com
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Atherley
Lady of the Order of Bluestocking Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 494	Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:32 am    Post subject:   Here's a Regency Musical Timeline update, Ladies: Did you know that nearly 30 of Byron's poems were meant not as stand-alone poems, but as song lyrics? According to Paul Douglass of San Jose State University in California, Byron composed around 29 poems as lyrics for music to be composed by Isaac Nathan, reputedly England's first popular Jewish composer. Among the poems, compiled as A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern, are She Walks in Beauty Like the Night, The Destruction of Sennacharib, Jephtha's Daughter, The Wild Gazelle, and We Sate Down and Wept. Some of the Byron-Nathan songs have been recorded, and samples are available on Mr. Douglass's Website, Romantic Era Songs, at www.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/music Do give them a listening! It's a wonderful audio peep at the times. Oh! And I just rememberd: that site also has selections of Stephen Storace's music for The Haunted Tower, a reworking of a Marquis deSade text. _________________ Ath Bed in a Bog has Runned Away
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Lady Di
Countess of the Manor Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 1829 Location: At the No. 10 Tea Shop selecting tea	Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:11 am    Post subject:   Atherley wrote: Here's a Regency Musical Timeline update, Ladies: Did you know that nearly 30 of Byron's poems were meant not as stand-alone poems, but as song lyrics? According to Paul Douglass of San Jose State University in California, Byron composed around 29 poems as lyrics for music to be composed by Isaac Nathan, reputedly England's first popular Jewish composer. Among the poems, compiled as A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern, are She Walks in Beauty Like the Night, The Destruction of Sennacharib, Jephtha's Daughter, The Wild Gazelle, and We Sate Down and Wept. Some of the Byron-Nathan songs have been recorded, and samples are available on Mr. Douglass's Website, Romantic Era Songs, at www.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/music Do give them a listening! It's a wonderful audio peep at the times. Oh! And I just rememberd: that site also has selections of Stephen Storace's music for The Haunted Tower, a reworking of a Marquis deSade text. Fascinating stuff! I can really imagine his songs being sung at balls and such. The one I listened to definitely seemed ball worthy. Or at the very least a musicale. Thank you for sharing that! _________________ ~~*Diana*~~ Spiders we've caught in the house as of 8/30/08: 121 QOTD: How come nobody mentions spiders in their romance books set in England?
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Atherley
Lady of the Order of Bluestocking Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 494	Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:35 am    Post subject:   Lady Di, I often think it would have been nice--and more appropriate-- if Nathan's setting of "She Walks in Beauty," instead of a modern setting, was used for the opening credits of Vanity Fair (2004). It could have been used without disrupting the director's interpretation of the story. However...it's possible that nobody knew about Nathan's setting! _________________ Ath Bed in a Bog has Runned Away
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