這首民謠的旋律非常古典而優雅,應該是一首描寫對愛情感到憂傷的歌曲,但它受到世人喜愛的層麵卻不僅僅局限在愛情的領域,有人將它換了歌詞演唱、也有人將它作為聖誕歌曲,而它被改編為器樂演奏的版本也是多不勝數,有小品、有室內樂、有管弦樂…,而這其中又以上述的《乞丐歌劇》和英國作曲家佛漢威廉斯(Vaughan illiams)所寫的《綠袖子幻想曲》(“Fantasia on Greensleeves”)最具代表性。
Greensleeves
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"My Lady Greensleeves" as depicted in an 1864 painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti."Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, basically a ground of the form called a romanesca.
A widely-believed (but completely unproven) legend is that it was composed by King Henry VIII (1491-1547) for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Anne, the youngest daughter of Thomas Boleyn, rejected Henry's attempts to seduce her. This rejection is apparently referred to in the song, when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously." However, it is most unlikely that King Henry VIII wrote it, as the song is written in a style which was not known in England until after Henry VIII died.
An alternative explanation is that Lady Green Sleeves was, as a result of of her attire, incorrectly assumed to be immoral. Her "discourteous" rejection of the singer's advances quite clearly makes the point that she is not.
In the page 500 of the Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-140-42438-5), the translator Nevill Coghill explains that “green (for Chaucer’s age was the color of) lightness in love. This is echoed in ‘Greensleeves is my delight’ and elsewhere.”
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Richard Clayderman
Richard Clayderman (born Philippe Pagès on December 28, 1953, Paris) is a French pianist who has released numerous albums, including renditions and arrangements of popular music, French chansons, and popular piano works of Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart.
Most of his recordings focus on popular music in general and orchestral arrangements of well-known romantic songs in particular, such as Yesterday, The Sound of Silence and Memory, rather than on Jazz or Classical Music.
He is known to alter many famous pieces of music such as Für Elise. His music is generally played with an orchestra. This accompaniment is usually with James Last's orchestra.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 – April 09, 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator.