Song in Episode 2
Hi
Does anyone know the name of the song the girls sang in the cow shed, it was later played on the autoharp by Angel?
A traditional folksong called The Snow It Melts The Soonest.
Anne Briggs wonderful version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isi1PmxPXRM
Thanks for your help shirley. Now I just need to find the music for it somewhere, lets see what google comes up with.
shareYou're welcome, s-ossitt. It's a beautifully poignant, not to mention ominous song that echoes Tess's thoughts.
You can find guitar tabs for it.
Thanks for putting that link up. I love Olde Folk songs.
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you're welcome! I love them too, in fact Tess (it's not the first time this has been mentioned) could make for a gripping murder ballad.
Thanks for this, I love this song and have been wondering for a week what it was! Wish I could sing, might learn it on the whistle instead ;)
"And remember, in Britain, you're never more than 72 miles from the sea"
It's not one of the ones that Hardy uses, but it's a lovely one. He was highly knowledgeable about traditional song, and a lot of imagery from them comes into his work. Joan is described as bearer of a “fast-perishing lumber of superstitions, folk-lore, dialect, and orally transmitted ballads”. I don't think you can really attempt to understand his work without a deep knowledge of folk-culture. I once argued this with an English literature professor, who, when I talked about the pagan currents in the novel, started referring to Classical allusions (how very Angelic!) – but that was not what I meant…
shareYou're welcome! How do you like this production, countingbodies?
shareAngel's return, bringing death in his wake, always reminds me of the doom-bearing revenant in The Dæmon Lover, aka James Harris or The Ship-Carpenter's Wife.
shareI love the song, and the music in the series. The folk tunes really enhance it, and as Silverwhistle said, Hardy incorporated these kinds of traditional ballads in his novels. The 1967 film version of Far From The Madding Crowd also featured such great English folk melodies like "Bushes And Briars" and "The Bold Grenadier".
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