Don't see a folk music thread here anywhere...the influence of 'folk' music in its various guises has been such on many great composers that, without it, would we even have the likes of Vaughan Williams, Bartok, Britten, Dvorak, Schubert, very many others?... or at least they would have surely all gone off in very different directions!
So, to start, any of we keen amateur historians - at least in the UK - will I'm sure be aware of Simon Schama's epic 'History of Britain' TV series - the soundtrack is quite outstanding, much of it original music composed by John Harle, and also new arrangements, such as this, one of the pieces most closely associated with the series (particularly in the episode 'The Body of the Queen' detailing the lives of Elizabeth I and her cousin Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots)...I heard it again on the radio for the first time in a while yesterday, and thought its worth posting here, it's Harle's arrangement of the beautiful old English folk ballad 'The Three Ravens'...sung by Sarah Leonard...
So, to start, any of we keen amateur historians - at least in the UK - will I'm sure be aware of Simon Schama's epic 'History of Britain' TV series - the soundtrack is quite outstanding, much of it original music composed by John Harle, and also new arrangements, such as this, one of the pieces most closely associated with the series (particularly in the episode 'The Body of the Queen' detailing the lives of Elizabeth I and her cousin Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots)...I heard it again on the radio for the first time in a while yesterday, and thought its worth posting here, it's Harle's arrangement of the beautiful old English folk ballad 'The Three Ravens'...sung by Sarah Leonard...