Pastime with good company - Harmonie de Harnes

[HasturTheOzonBoozer]

I like turtles!

[cjdjtmwt]

良き仲間と時間を過ごそう

[Ekki1701]

Awesome arrangement, it battles with the Swingle Singers for the 1st place!.



[runescapetroller]

I love this tune, but god dammit, i wish they didn't play that minor seventh!!! please, make it a major seventh!

[nooneelsehasthis]

I though this was absolutely fabulous - very Henry. xx

[jockhamish]

Sources...yes, a contentious question. The Tudors seem to have got rid of some information that might have led to their occupation of the throne as being dubious..? But times move on, and this period in history was a new and invigorating time. A nice old historian once told me that when Henry's body was lying in state in St Georges Chapel in Windsor inside his coffin,it exploded and spread his entrails all over the place! Check to see if that is true! If he did write the song,then all is good!

[cinnamonclaw]

@jockhamish It wasn't Henry VIII who exploded. A simple Google search or a proper history class would serve you better than hearsay, which I'd put money on that you simple can't remember properly anyway.

[jockhamish]

What a great bunch of musicians and what a great sound! I wonder what old bully-boy Henry would have thought of French people playing his song?!

[CynthiaPeacock]

Uniquely wonderful arrangement. Sweet video.

[XXMPZEC]

AWESOME!!!

[clydesight]

This is a GREAT performance of a wonderful song. Probably Henry's best.

Thanks for posting it, it's a favorite of my channel now!

[anonUK]

@clydesight

Henry's only- if he wrote it at all, that is. it was probably written, or at least polished, by a minstrel. He may have written the lyrics.

The modern drum arrangement (after 1:45) is definitely 20th/21st c., though.

[clydesight]

@anonUK Thanks for the information. I think Henry MAY have done the music because the Tudors were known for musical ability (at least that's what some historians say). I agree, some of this performance has modern influences, but hey, it's a great performance, so why not.

BTW, I have read that Henry is supposed to have written Greensleeves. Urban myth, legend? Fact or fiction?

[anonUK]

@clydesight

I don't think he wrote Greensleeves- but he could well have written this.

In the 16th century, intellectual ownership and record keeping were fluid to say the least. If the King said he wrote it, that was that.

And if minstrels embellished a tune slightly, who was complaining?

[clydesight]

@anonUK

They didn't have content ID in the 16th Century?

Music at the time was not as strictly written as it is today. It was expected that a performer would take liberties and realize the music in his own special way. Later, in the Baroque, they didn't even bother to write much of the music. They wrote a bass line, and the performer was expected to fill in the rest!

[anonUK]

@clydesight

I think you've just brilliantly summarised what I said.

[jockhamish]

@clydesight I read somwhere that the tune Greensleeves may have had its origin at the end of the 15th century in a song called 'The Blacksmith'....Henry 8 was a notorious nicker of other peoples' music!

[clydesight]

@jockhamish It is so difficult to find sources when going so far back, and so many rumors and things get started.

However, if Henry DID nick the tune from someone else, well, he was King, right? Guess when you are a Tudor king you can do just about anything (except have a happy marriage ;>)

George Frederick Handel (17th century) wrote a beautiful harpsichord piece called "The Harmonious Blacksmith". I'm sure it is somewhere here on YouTube! Sounds nothing like Greensleeves though.

[YTisshit]

Love it.

[ChrisC2I]

Félicitations pour les transcriptions inspirées qui font le meilleur usage des forces en présence.

Intéressant de voir le répertoire sauter de Rodrigo à Henri VIII...

[magdaknappe]

Fantastyczne! Jestem pełna podziwu! Wspaniale!!!

[guttli]

An orchestra in true balance, clever arrangement, but kind of weird going from a style quite true to the original music while slowly turning into some kind of ompaphonic coversioen of the tune, but still, great performance

[Libbynicholson]

amazing wish i could play like that! i can onlyplay the first 9 bars!

[audie83]

AWESOME!! Wow-totally brilliant musicians!

5 Stars!*****Love it.♥♥

[mimms55]

Wonderful! A fantastic rendering of this classic English piece.

[pitbikecrazy]

wow!!!!!!!!brilliant!!

[ananke47]

Amazing [2]

[Lootran]

Wow i found some notes for brass quartett on this and wondered what it was and searched youtube for it, and these guys come up :) just wonderful...

[latrompettiste]

sa fé drôle de revoir des visages.... mé fo avouer c bien joué bravo !

[PianoMan200810]

I love these guys! Absolutely wonderful.

[RebelSeb]

Absolutely Superb! that's jolly good...

[PestisNigra]

Landgenootjes, tóch ?

Leuke muziek, leuke dames.

[Marrewn]

Amazing.