The Turtle Dove - Songs
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Sharing love of early music songs, sacred & secular. Old hymns, carols, folk songs, rounds etc. How do we best learn by heart? And how can we "become attuned"? Includes basic theory of music posts.
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"...Cupid doth hover up and downe blinded with her faire eyes,
and fortune captive at her feete contem’d and conquerd lies."
and fortune captive at her feete contem’d and conquerd lies."
July 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"...Cupid doth hover up and downe blinded with her faire eyes,
and fortune captive at her feete contem’d and conquerd lies."
and fortune captive at her feete contem’d and conquerd lies."
"Time stands still with gazing on her face,
stand still and gaze for minutes, houres and yeares, to her give place:
All other things shall change, but shee remaines the same,
till heavens changed have their course & time hath lost his name.
...
stand still and gaze for minutes, houres and yeares, to her give place:
All other things shall change, but shee remaines the same,
till heavens changed have their course & time hath lost his name.
...
July 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Time stands still with gazing on her face,
stand still and gaze for minutes, houres and yeares, to her give place:
All other things shall change, but shee remaines the same,
till heavens changed have their course & time hath lost his name.
...
stand still and gaze for minutes, houres and yeares, to her give place:
All other things shall change, but shee remaines the same,
till heavens changed have their course & time hath lost his name.
...
"Through all the world below,
God is seen all around:
Search hills and valleys through.
There he's found.
The growing of the corn,
The lily and the thorn,
The pleasant and forlorn,
All declare God is there,
In the meadows drest in green,
There he's seen."
God is seen all around:
Search hills and valleys through.
There he's found.
The growing of the corn,
The lily and the thorn,
The pleasant and forlorn,
All declare God is there,
In the meadows drest in green,
There he's seen."
May 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Through all the world below,
God is seen all around:
Search hills and valleys through.
There he's found.
The growing of the corn,
The lily and the thorn,
The pleasant and forlorn,
All declare God is there,
In the meadows drest in green,
There he's seen."
God is seen all around:
Search hills and valleys through.
There he's found.
The growing of the corn,
The lily and the thorn,
The pleasant and forlorn,
All declare God is there,
In the meadows drest in green,
There he's seen."
A beautiful voice and harp recording of "The Turtle Dove" can be found as follows: "We Two Kings perform their own arrangement of The Turtle Dove, Barnaby King (voice), Alexandra King (harp)."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iPW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iPW...
The Turtle Dove - Ralph Vaughan-Williams
YouTube video by HarpistAlex
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May 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A beautiful voice and harp recording of "The Turtle Dove" can be found as follows: "We Two Kings perform their own arrangement of The Turtle Dove, Barnaby King (voice), Alexandra King (harp)."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iPW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iPW...
Here is the full page from "The Songs and Hymns of the Scottish Highlands," 1888:
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Here is the full page from "The Songs and Hymns of the Scottish Highlands," 1888:
The first verse (English) is as follows:
From Jesse's root a lovely shoot, a Branch of beauty grew;
And bright was seen its glorious sheen, its graceful form and hue;
Its leaves were fair, its fruit was rare, and sweet it was to view.
Its branches wide on every side refreshed with heaven's dew.
From Jesse's root a lovely shoot, a Branch of beauty grew;
And bright was seen its glorious sheen, its graceful form and hue;
Its leaves were fair, its fruit was rare, and sweet it was to view.
Its branches wide on every side refreshed with heaven's dew.
May 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The first verse (English) is as follows:
From Jesse's root a lovely shoot, a Branch of beauty grew;
And bright was seen its glorious sheen, its graceful form and hue;
Its leaves were fair, its fruit was rare, and sweet it was to view.
Its branches wide on every side refreshed with heaven's dew.
From Jesse's root a lovely shoot, a Branch of beauty grew;
And bright was seen its glorious sheen, its graceful form and hue;
Its leaves were fair, its fruit was rare, and sweet it was to view.
Its branches wide on every side refreshed with heaven's dew.
It's nice how Wither also offers a "Mysticall" interpretation of these words about the miraculous passage through the Red Sea.
March 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It's nice how Wither also offers a "Mysticall" interpretation of these words about the miraculous passage through the Red Sea.
The more I practise remembering music & words, the more possible it is to remember & learn faster.
One thing hooks on to another.
This is so at any age. And doesn't music help us in all this?
I make new pathways in the brain, which echo in the body, producing vibrations of well-being and health.
One thing hooks on to another.
This is so at any age. And doesn't music help us in all this?
I make new pathways in the brain, which echo in the body, producing vibrations of well-being and health.
March 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The more I practise remembering music & words, the more possible it is to remember & learn faster.
One thing hooks on to another.
This is so at any age. And doesn't music help us in all this?
I make new pathways in the brain, which echo in the body, producing vibrations of well-being and health.
One thing hooks on to another.
This is so at any age. And doesn't music help us in all this?
I make new pathways in the brain, which echo in the body, producing vibrations of well-being and health.
Beautiful sound - thank you.
February 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Beautiful sound - thank you.