On 2016-07-10 7:06 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: > Of course English poetry used to be alliterative, not rhyming, until > Chaucer introduced that new-fangled French habit of end rhymes! > Getting back to setting music though, would not the driving beat of > alliterative ballards and sagas not lend themselves to some grand > music? Has anyone ever set "Piers the Plowman", the "Greene Knight" > or "Beowulf" (all in the original language) to music?
It’s possible that some in Tolkien fandom have written music something like this; the poetry JRRT wrote for the characters from Rohan was in the alliterative form. (Were end-rhymes so new in Europe? They seem to have come into fashion in Hebrew liturgical poetry [“piyyut”] around the seventh or eighth century C.E.) —Joel C. Salomon _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
