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The Friar and the Nun
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The lyrics of this song are from an Elizabethan broadside. The base melody is from John Playford's "Dancing Master."
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I am a pseudo-medieval musician, scribe and artificer. With layered levels of simple instruments, my sounds are often uniquely archaic. While some of my music is entirely original, most of my numbers are my personal arrangements of renaissance and medieval melodies from antiquity. There's much more information to be found about me on my web site at
Song Info
Genre
Classical • Renaissance
Charts
Peak #30
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Elizabethan Broadside
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Arrangement by Fugli
Uploaded
April 27, 2005
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MP3 1.8 MB • 128 kbps • 2:00
Story behind the song
This song is briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew." I liked the mixture of Latin and English in this version, my pronunciation notwithstanding. This is a simple arrangement for two voices, guitar and mandolin.
Lyrics
The original lyrics have been altered slightly for our modern eyes and ears. The original reads something like this: Ther was a friar of order gray which loved a nunne ful merry a day; This friar was lusty, proper and yong – he offered the nunne to lerne her to syng" (MS C.U.L. Add. 7350, XV s.) You get the idea...
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