"Greensleeves" is an old English folk song from 1580 originally played on a lute. This masterpiece is still well known and being re-interpreted 400 years later! For those interested: "One of the first known references to a Greensleeves (Original title "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves") ballad is dated back on September, 1580. One of the most circulated and believed rumors about this old folk song is that it was written by English monarch Henry VIII after he was rejected by his eventual wife, Anne Boleyn, during the beginning of their courtship. It wasn't, it's a myth. (It was was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationers' Company in September 1580). The lyrics are wrought with a sense of romantic pathos and yearning for love. Even though the song is thought to have a royal association, the lute may have very well immortalized it over the centuries. Another couple of versions followed in 1581 and 1584, Richard Jones printed a final version of the folk song. Jones’s version, which was 'A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves', is the one we listen to today. The song in its lines refers to a Lady Greensleeves, and in the 16th-century era, the green color was interpreted to have a sexual connotation. It's been suggested that green was symbolic of promiscuity and that the lady in question was a prostitute. In “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, William Shakespeare mentions this folk song twice where, in Act Two, we can see- "I would have sworn his disposition would have gone to the truth of his words, but they do no more adhere and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of 'Green Sleeves'." Also, in Act Five, we behold- "Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of 'Green Sleeves.'” Fun fact: In Hong Kong, "Greensleeves" is used as background music in Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education public listening exams. Hearing Band-Maids interpretation broke my brain. And my heart. It's beautiful!
As Davey-Boyd mentions in an earlier comment this was is basically Greensleeves an old English folk song from 1580. Kanami can not only writec/ompose great hard rock/metal/prog/ballads songs but adapt an ancient folk song for modern electric instruments. I often think she maybe does not get enough credit, but then that's maybe cause I an such a huge fan of hers. Her guitar work is so sublime as is the rest ofthe bands performance
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"Greensleeves" is an old English folk song from 1580 originally played on a lute. This masterpiece is still well known and being re-interpreted 400 years later! For those interested:
"One of the first known references to a Greensleeves (Original title "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves") ballad is dated back on September, 1580. One of the most circulated and believed rumors about this old folk song is that it was written by English monarch Henry VIII after he was rejected by his eventual wife, Anne Boleyn, during the beginning of their courtship. It wasn't, it's a myth. (It was was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationers' Company in September 1580). The lyrics are wrought with a sense of romantic pathos and yearning for love. Even though the song is thought to have a royal association, the lute may have very well immortalized it over the centuries.
Another couple of versions followed in 1581 and 1584, Richard Jones printed a final version of the folk song. Jones’s version, which was 'A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves', is the one we listen to today.
The song in its lines refers to a Lady Greensleeves, and in the 16th-century era, the green color was interpreted to have a sexual connotation. It's been suggested that green was symbolic of promiscuity and that the lady in question was a prostitute.
In “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, William Shakespeare mentions this folk song twice where, in Act Two, we can see- "I would have sworn his disposition would have gone to the truth of his words, but they do no more adhere and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of 'Green Sleeves'." Also, in Act Five, we behold- "Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of 'Green Sleeves.'”
Fun fact: In Hong Kong, "Greensleeves" is used as background music in Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education public listening exams.
Hearing Band-Maids interpretation broke my brain. And my heart. It's beautiful!
I started playing Genshin Impact because of this. Still playing, cool game. I blame Band-Maid! 😉😄
As Davey-Boyd mentions in an earlier comment this was is basically Greensleeves an old English folk song from 1580. Kanami can not only writec/ompose great hard rock/metal/prog/ballads songs but adapt an ancient folk song for modern electric instruments. I often think she maybe does not get enough credit, but then that's maybe cause I an such a huge fan of hers. Her guitar work is so sublime as is the rest ofthe bands performance
The composer for the Genshin Impact game rewrote Greensleeves and Kanami and the other Ladies reworked it into this.
Aftershock was last year.