Mix Margaret Dylan Jones

Greensleeves dates from 1580 when the tune and original lyrics were first mentioned in a list of publications in Elizabethan England. Over the next few years it was published several more times, including one version with sixteen verses.

Many years ago I began making arrangements of Greensleeves for my singing students. In early 2018 I published one in a limited edition, but also continued to develop more sophisticated versions.

The project has grown into another new version to be published under several titles with different lyrics. Each of those has further small variations in lyrics to choose from.

I've modernised the lyrics in a similar fashion to my new arrangements of Amazing Grace and Londonderry Air, borrowing some words from the original. Each of these songs will be published in multiple versions for different forces and with a choice of lyrics for different singers and audiences.

The solo version of this arrangement has been publised in this book:

HMP 3223 Three Traditional Songs with inclusive lyrics. Solo voice with piano. Medium voice. Beside the Foyle (D flat major; same tune as Danny Boy); Amazing Grace, the Sweet Sound of Children (Einstein was a Refugee) (G major); Greensleeves In Love (E major/E minor). Limited edition of fifty (50) copies. Available at my Shopify page or by mail order.

PRACTICE  RECORDINGS:

mixmargaret.com/practice-recordings.html

http://www.mixmargaret.com/greensleeves-project-overview.html

© MDJ 2019.

See my other arrangements of traditional tunes:

Amazing Grace
Beside the Foyle (aka Londonderry Air, Danny Boy)