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the Four Hims were the four editors of Spenser Encyxlopedia. I think I made it up qwhen I saw thwe four march our together at a solemn Spenser meetiong. Fill in the blanks or open your Ency. Tom Roche ----- Original Message ----- From: [log in to unmask] Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:57 pm Subject: Re: musical Spenser To: [log in to unmask] > Humphrey Tonkin would be the one to know. Where is he now? Some > years ago, when the MLA met in Washington DC, Humphrey arranged > for a short performance at the Folger Library by musicians from > SUNY Purchase, including some settings of Spenserian texts by late > Renaissance composers. While I'm not sure that he would know > about any and all available recordings, I don't know of a better > authority. But wait: who were the Four Hims who performed at the > Yale conference, back in the 90s? David Richardson and Donald > Cheney, and perhaps Humphrey, and who else? -- well acquainted > with early music. > But if it were up to me, David, I would go after some modern > settings, or seek out some musical students who might step up to > the challenges presented in the Bower of Bliss. > Cheers, Jon Q. > > --- On Tue, 6/29/10, Kenneth Gross <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: Kenneth Gross <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: musical Spenser > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 7:40 AM > > I've no direct answer to David's query, but there's a useful website > to look at: > > http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/ > > This allows you to search for settings of poems by particular > poets or > composers or even genres, and then alongside each song-setting it > pulls up there's a link that allows you to search for CDs that might > contain the particular song. I checked just now under S/Spenser, and > mostly what they have are contemporary settings of Spenserian texts > (including a bit of Despair's sermon to RCK) by composers such as Ned > Rorem and Mark Blitzstein, nothing for Gibbons, Lawes, et cie., but > the website itself announces it's not comprehensive. > > Ken Gross > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:27 AM, David Miller > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > In the Spenser Encyclopedia article on 'music', John Hollander > mentions> several settings for Spenserian verse (by George Kirbye, > Richard Carlton, > > Orlando Gibbons, and Henry Lawes). > > Does anyone happen to know whether digital recordings of any or > all of these > > are currently available? > > > > David Lee Miller > > Carolina Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature > > Director, Center for Digital Humanities at South Carolina > > University of South Carolina > > Columbia, SC 29208 > > (803) 777-4256 > > FAX 777-9064 > > please note new email address: [log in to unmask] > > Here lies an honest miller, And that is strange. > > --Essex gravestone, c. 1450 > > > > > > > > >