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- From: scheider@Oswego.EDU (Linda Scheiderich)
- Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
- Subject: Re: Scarborough fair
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.191204.10735@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:12:04 GMT
- References: <n12a1t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Sender: news@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Network News)
- Reply-To: scheider@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Linda Scheiderich)
- Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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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".
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- Scarborough Fair is in no way original, it is a Middle English folk
- song, if not earlier. If I remember correctly, the attribution on
- the album I have is 'traditional'. If that is not enough, perhaps
- a local library might have a songbook of traditional English tunes.
- Also, a few years ago, a choir I was in did a gorgeous contrapointal(sp?)
- arrangement, a local high school or college might have that on file.
- The copies we were using pre-dated S&G by a good 40 years, and were
- considered 'classical' then. :) I cannot comment either way on
- Canticle, though I would not be surprised in the least if it was a
- contemporary to Scarborough Faire. Hope this helped, and do I get a cut
- if it did? ;)
- >
- > * SLMR 2.1a * DOS Utilities? Naah, we got Columbus Southern Electric.
- >
- >
- >--- TosScan 1.00
-
- Cat, the Mystical Divinity of Unashamed Felinity
- Round the cathedral rang 'Vivat!' Life to the everlasting Cat!
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