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- From: n5gax@leo.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
- Subject: Re: Scarborough fair
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 04:59:46 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- In article <n12a1t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Julie.Rhodes@f120.n226.z1.fidonet.org
- writes:
- >This is not exactly on topic, but there are people here who might well be able
- >to help me...I have a bet with my husband that Simon and Garfunkle did *not*
- >write Scarborough Fair. I maintain they simply arranged it and created
- >"Scarborough Fair/Canticle."
-
- >What I need is some kind of source I can quote, or otherwise use as "proof".
-
- The only handy source I have is "Rise Up Singing", p. 32. It cites SF as:
-
- -- trad. (English: Child Ballad #2 "The Elfin Knight")
-
- Evidently, TEK is another set of lyrics using this tune (Who would do such a
- thing? ;^)
-
- The "traditional" label wouldn't be hung on a SaG original.
-
- In college, I recall doing a choral arrangement of SF. Something on the music
- described it as "medieval", but that has to be just heresay . . . I _don't_
- have the sheet music handy.
-
- d
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- "I've let my cat use my typewriter on occasion,
- and the results were cryptic at best."
- -- Larry Niven
- Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429r phon505-255-4642 n5gax@leo.unm.edu
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