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Its importance can be gauged by the fact that the Naxos Music Library site contains 393 CDs containing ''Greensleeves''. | Its importance can be gauged by the fact that the Naxos Music Library site contains 393 CDs containing ''Greensleeves''. | ||
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| − | [http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/student_orgs/arthurian_legend/game/music/GreensleevesLyrics.htm Lyrics] | + | * [http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/student_orgs/arthurian_legend/game/music/GreensleevesLyrics.htm Lyrics] |
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"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song, often erroneously attributed to Henry VIII. The song's true author is unknown.
Greensleesves is one of the most well-known tunes of all time. Originally a Tudor song, first known as a lute song, it has survived numerous versions and arrangements from simple voice and instrument settings, solo instruments {lute, guitar, piano, flute, harp and many others and ensemble arrangements, from consort groups to a full symphonic fantasia. There are choral arrangements. It has survived an appearance in an opera and the tune appeared - with appropriately different words - as a carol (What Child is This).
Its importance can be gauged by the fact that the Naxos Music Library site contains 393 CDs containing Greensleeves.