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Re: Thirteen Scripters Scripting
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Re: Thirteen Scripters Scripting


  • Subject: Re: Thirteen Scripters Scripting
  • From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:33:45 +0000

Mark J. Reed wrote on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:46:14 -0500:

>According to Wikipedia:
>
>1. The version with "gold" instead of "golden" is older.  Also, that
>verse originally referred not to jewelry but to a variety of bird
>whose markings include a yellow ring around the neck, possibly the
>ring-necked pheasant.  Thus the first seven gifts - all of the ones
>that aren't people - are all birds.  (Also, the four "calling birds"
>were originally four "colly birds", a.k.a. blackbirds).
>
>2. The copyright is to the tune, not the lyrics: it's not "five gold
>rings", but the way the melody changes once you get that far.
>Originally the pattern of the first four verses (where each of the
>gifts past one has the same falling-rising intonation, sol re mi fa)
>carried through; the modern melody that changes after you get to 5,
>descennding through the previous gifts such that "two turtle doves" is
>re do ti la sol) was written by Frederic Austin and the copyright is
>still active; the current owner is Novello & Co.

Thanks, Mark. That's very interesting. The copyright story makes more
sense than the one I heard on television over Christmas. I think Austin's
modification to the tune is very clever; but it sounds as though the
original version would have had a more exciting headlong rush and
wouldn't have caused me to spend my childhood believing the six geese
were laying the five gold rings!

NG

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