Archive for November 29th, 2011
Shakespeare’s Carol - Thomas Arne
This carol is a little bit of a curiosity being one of the songs written by Thomas Arne as incidental music for the Shakespeare play ‘As You Like It’. Like his other famous songs ‘Rule Brittania’ (from ‘The Masque of Althred’) and ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ (also from ‘As You Like It’) it is characterised by an extensive melody which is [...]
