Guitar Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1459275
Composed by William Byrd (1540 - 1623). Arranged by Clive Lane. Classical,Renaissance. Score and Parts. 27 pages. Clive Lane #1038219. Published by Clive Lane (A0.1459275).
Browning ą 5 (The leaves be green)
This magnificent composition is a set of 20 variations on the melody of a popular song: The leaves be green, which celebrated the ripening of nuts in autumn.
Browning or The Leaves be Green was a popular tune of the late 16th century and several other composers of the era also used it as a basis for a composition. Versions by Clement Woodcock, Henry Stonings and Elway Bevin have also survived. In all of them, one part plays the basic melody while the other parts weave a polyphony around it.
The lyrics to the song are:
The leaves be green,
The nuts be brown.
They hang so high,
They will not come down.
Score and parts.