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    Ronald Binge (1910-1979): Elizabethan Serenade

    This popular light music composition was written in 1951 by Roland Binge for the Mantovani Orchestra. The composer renamed it "Elizabethan Serenade" in 1952, after the accession of Elizabeth II.

    My recording is based on an arrangement for mandolin ensemble by (I think) Tony Judge, from our group's repertoire folder. I am playing it as a mandolin quartet (two mandolins, octave mandolin, tenor guitar).

    1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin (x2)
    Mid-Missouri M-111 octave mandolin
    Ozark tenor guitar



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    Mantonvani's version sounds like a schmaltzy waltz. This shows the simple beauty of the melody, with a much more classical feel. You've redeemed that melody for me. Cheers!

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    Default Re: Elizabethan Serenade (Ronald Binge)

    An update on this one: my 2015 version is a bit slow and a bit stiff. Here is a new one, reduced from the previous quartet arrangement to only the first mandolin and guitar parts (I'm playing the guitar bass line on mandocello).

    Ronald Binge (1910-1979): Elizabethan Serenade

    1898 Giuseppe Vinaccia mandolin
    Vintage Viaten tenor guitar
    Suzuki MC-815 mandocello


    https://youtu.be/BhXxlOfW5rY

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    Default Re: Elizabethan Serenade (Ronald Binge)

    Hi Martin,
    I think you did a very nice job tweaking your arrangement, it flows better and is very evocative of the original. I've loved this song ever since hearing it on the radio as a child in Munich while my dad was stationed there in the early sixties. I always thought it was a German tune, since the popular version on the air had German words. It wasn't until just a few years ago that I learned that it was an English tune by Ronald Binge.

    As an interesting side note, I took an online class on the dissemination and creolization of music of the British Isles as it spread through the New World. One segment discussed the adoption amd adaptation of European dance forms. A video was played of dancing the kwadrile (quadrille) in St. Lucia in the Carribean. It's a neat video since they are dancing to Elizabethan Serenade, and the kids are really good dancers.

    Quadrille Dancing in Choiseul, St. Lucia - YouTube
    https://youtu.be/hh6cWrA2DKg
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    Default Re: Elizabethan Serenade (Ronald Binge)

    Thanks, Rob -- much appreciated. My earlier recording was too slow, which is why it didn't flow properly.

    Martin

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