As an FYI, the Donne aria was just an event I thought people might find interesting, like the Campion song. I wasn’t trying to prove some imagined point. I enjoy Donne and find him both musical and lyrical, in spirit if not sonically.
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On Oct 25, 2016, at 2:42 PM, David Bircumshaw <000005b0d06ee449-dmarc-[log in to unmask] > wrote:While Lady Mary Sidney's or Emilia Lanier's 'The Tempest' was possibly the world's first musical , in collaboration with the composer Robert Johnson (NB not Bind Willie McTell) and four of its song settings do survive.From the sidelines here, and without pretense to scholarship, my understanding is that Donne's 'Hymn to God the Father' was the one poem of his set to music at his request and that it was very much a congregational song.George Herbert was reputedly as able a composer (a lutenist) as he was a poet and the destruction of his scores in the Civil War may have been one of the greatest cultural losses of that time.
Pelham Humfrey made a setting of it (which I love) in 1688 but I'm not sure if it bore much resemblance to the Dean of St Paul's anthem.On 25 October 2016 at 21:59, Jaime Robles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:And here is John Adams’ setting of John Donne’s Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlUHKHLk_VU This at the end of the first act of the opera Dr Atomic, baritone Gerald Finley portrays Oppenheimer on the eve before the definitive test of the bomb.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d7mT0sk2DE
Youtube of a John Cooper setting of Campion. (performed in the bathroom!)
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