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
Rob Ross
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