Virgin Queen Soundtrack - Track 1

[everything14114]

what is this actually called? Love it, dance GCSE to this.

[sorcerykid]

One of my absolute favourite movie soundtracks. I was just switching channels years ago, and came across this miniseries airing late night on PBS. I was hooked because it had a medieval theme, but after a few moments this theme came on and I was glued to the TV :)

[DanteKami1]

I HEREBY DEDICATE THIS MUSICAL SCORE TO TYNISA, DAUGHTER OF TISAMON OF THE MANTIS-KINDEN!

[ViewWatchGori19]

is this Mediaeval Baebes?

[JoFreddieFSM]

@ViewWatchGori19 Yes, words by Elizabeth I set to music by Katharine Blake, performed by the Mediæval Bæbes

[taxiride1]

Is this film any good? I didn't watch it since Helen Mirren was playing Elizabeth around the same time. Worth renting/ buying?

[CecilyHeron]

@taxiride1 It's a TV drama, four-part I think. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. Anne-Marie Duff's acting in this particular role was painfully bad, I thought. I don't know why this drama was made; the subject is hardly new, and the interpretation is unoriginal in the extreme. It all felt a bit like a renaissance fair, or something similarly tacky. I did like the music though!

[taxiride1]

@CecilyHeron Thanks but you were too late... And I have to agree it's a fairly lame version of an old story. Than again, anything with Tom Hardy in a costume is worth renting.

[Aqualeqa]

Wonderful song..it reminds me of the movie which i just love <3

[WitchieBelle]

Queen Elizabeth is a true inspiration.

[PetarMalyov]

My care is like my shadow,

laid bare beneath the sun,

it follows me at all times,

and flies when I pursue it,

I freeze and yet am always burned,

since from myself I turn,

I love and yet am forced to hate,

I seem stark mute,

inside I prate. music... then again as above.

[roxylulu1]

my favourite part of this mini series is when they open up her ring and there's a portrait of anne boleyn in there. made me smile

[treblinska]

this is fantastic.. beats the St.Johns choir :-)) ps.. no Port at the end either lol

[TheNathan345]

i keep listening to this awesome soundtrack

[camilla60731]

This song is amazing and makes you think. 

[princessintherain]

beautiful and haunting. I love it.



[Herbsandspices100]

I have two questions

1, What movie maker did you use?

2, How do you get your tracks on cds or itunes onto windows movie maker?

[Aless81]

Such a beautiful song and I love how they used Elizabeth's poetry to write this song! :D

[lovelystrings]

Medieval Baebes are the best!

[marymac1607]

Beautiful, thank you!!!!

[harvest6254]

My drama group used the first part of this song for the beginning of our production of Macbeth, I think I've listened to it so many times now, that I can recite all the words!

[Predinator2k7]

william wallace should have had this on his ipod when he stood staring at the english

[MyMadra]

@Predinator2k7 ipods didnt exist back then RETARD!

[Predinator2k7]

@MyMadra

didnt they? thanks for letting me know.....

[MyMadra]

@Predinator2k7 nope they were invented quite recently as a matter of fact, you're welcome

[Predinator2k7]

@MyMadra

your a fucking retard, now go and shine my shoes bitch!

[MyMadra]

@Predinator2k7 Yet you're the one who thought Ipods were around when william wallace was living, stupid idiot

[waivedwench]

@Predinator2k7 Love your dry humour!! Pity some people can't seem to understand it!! ;)

[swankymarlin]

So very cool; love the blend of old and modern sounds. They work so well together.

[HerrWarja]

Was this composed for the movie of is it older then that? Who wrote this music?

[MetalAmaya]

@HerrWarja I think it was composed for the movie by Martin Phipps, but sung by The Mediaeval Baebes

[ligreekguy]

Also, notice how the songs are mostly devoted to the person or persons singing them (or some other mortal being) rather than God. Blah!

[mylittlewolfie]

@ligreekguy Those heathens!!

[ligreekguy]

God, this sound track is so Anglican-Episcopalian. The quality of the music is simply not as beautiful or haunting as the Greek or Russian songs of the Orthodox Church, nor the Latin songs of the Roman Catholic Church. Songs like this conducted in English all sound like a girls scout choir (Orthodox and Catholic churches use the more beauteous and powerful male voices). This is nothing more than shrill and juvenile sounding, and hardly inspiring or spiritual.

[dc33432]

i love it!!! i saw this masterpiece and I keep watching over and over!!!

[ImADrWhoAddict]

I've heard Elizabeth wrote this poem thing herself, is this true?

[harrygrobh]

@ImADrWhoAddict It's adapted from the poem "On Monsieur's Departure", written about the failure of Elizabeth I's marriage negotiations with François, duc d'Anjou. It is said to have been written by Elizabeth herself, although this of course cannot be proved. The connection does make this even more special to listen to though, I think :)

[Idnarmadur]

There couldn't be a better soundtrack to this series. The Mediaeval Baebes are perfect <3

[toralisasam]

....... wow. Just brilliant.

[killersmileebaby]

I LOVE THIS SONGG!!!!!(:

[Starproms]

Sounds like The Medieval Babes to me!

Very nice.

[Shockwave474]

Oh my GOD this rocks!

[HConstantine]

Is there some reason this is rock music instead of Byrd?

[snakedemon11]

I remember when i was very young and i happened to stumble upon this show on TV. When I heard this song in the credits I went to hell and back to find the soundtrack and when i found it was the mediaeval baebes, not only did i fall in love with them, but with the show and everything tudor/elizabethean. Thumbs up for medieaval baebes!

[HConstantine]

@snakedemon11 Early Modern, medieval...same difference, huh?

[snakedemon11]

@HConstantine Not exactly. Elizabethan/Shakesperean English is a bit different from early modern. Early modern was late middle english, and everything was spelled differently. But Shakespeare English was almost exactly like ours just a different syntax (word placement/sentence structure). If you go online and read the canturbury tales in middle english, the words will be the same, just spelled differently (ex: sunne=sun; moder=mother)

[HConstantine]

@snakedemon11 The period between 1500 and 1648 is usually known as the early modern period in historical studies.

Modern English (commonly spoken from before 1500) is by definition not Middle English. Thanks for telling me the nature of Shakespeare's English. I'll remember it the next time I teach a Shakespeare survey.

Why would I look the Cant. Tales up on the Internet, when my Riverside Chaucer is on the shelf above my computer?

[snakedemon11]

@HConstantine ok

[robi2000]

I'm definately getting this soundtrack. I love this music

[Rokya06]

loved the series and the soundtrack is amazing!

[buttaflystar91]

I have searched all over trying to find this song! It has stuck with me ever since I saw the movie years ago! Love love love it! Thank you :)

[BrynBarvon]

this is the best elizabeth i ever watched.

she's amazing..

[tombo1984]

Brilliant series, Brilliant song. What more can be said.

[RachlovesSawyer]

Tom Hardy, how is it possible to be that attractive??

[loverofhighlanders20]

@RachlovesSawyer Have you seen him in Inception? I almost screamed when I saw him! And in Wuthering Heights (BBC) *sigh*

[manfredfinch]

The composer who wrote this music is BRILLIANT.

[purpleflowerispretty]

this is queen elizabeth 1 of englands poem

[tilemacro]

i want to understand the workings of a mind that disliked this ....

[22poopoo]

@tilemacro I think fould scourn of them

[mirella930x0]

Is that a bassoon at the beginning? Awesome.

[alexreid88]

useless fact queen Elizabeth wrote these words , in a poem to a french prince because he countrymen wouldn't allow her to marry him

[bangwezl]

@alexreid88 I seriously need for you to explain further; at that time and place, it was not a 'sin' to comingle with the French, as a matter of fact Elizabeth had a good chance of being related to the gentleman(who was he?). The Norman conquest was still more than just a vague memory, although I can't recall if the court still spoke French. She engaged in a lot of slap and tickle with Thomas Seymour, which led to him losing his head. Was she the last Tudor monarch?

[BastasGirl]

@bangwezl

The gentleman in question was Francis, Duke of Anjou. Elizabeth was very fond of him but was warned not to marry him because the English people probably wouldn't approve of her marrying a man who was French AND a Roman Catholic. Also the fact that they thought his mother was a whore didn't help. And you're right, she was the last Tudor; when she died the throne passed to James VI of Scotland who was a Stuart and became James I of England. :)

[afewtube]

@alexreid88 Not a useless fact at all. I didn't know this, thanks for sharing it!

Is it good poetry? I have no idea. I suppose as long as it expresses her feelings for him it doesn't really matter whether it's good poetry.

[eulenwut]

@alexreid88 true?

[bewitchednour]

@alexreid88 shows how smart and devoted she is to her people, it also reminds me of how Queen Mary married a Spaniard even though her people didn't agree to it and in the end caused great hardship to england.

[skittl3s96]

What are they saying? I can only understand parts of it. Diction isnt exactly perfect:) but i love this song

[crystalrain666]

love the song awesome beat

[brentonio1996]

I do love this poem.

[jeiLou88]

Me encanta esta canción, es preciosa! :)

[YoteBlue]

@jezebel263 : Elizabeth 's face was scarred by an attack of small pox,so she wore a heavy lead based white makeup to cover the scars. It was also the fashion at the time to be as light skinned as possible. Some say that lead in the makeup contributed to her death.

[YoteBlue]

@jezebel263 : Elizabeth 's face was scarred by an attack of small pox,so she wore a heavy lead based white makeup to cover the scars. It was also the fashion at the time to be as light skinned as possible

[keepoo246810]

which song is when queen bess is dancing and her ladies are laughing then the earl of essex tells them their joke is in poor taste

[Nevenius]

MASTERPIECE!

[allaboutmymonster]

thanks so much for posting this, it's a lovely teaser and a great inspiration. :-)

[demonpenguin007]

anyone know where i can find the lyrics to this?

[Lenochka1988]

I love this soundtrack! it is really deep and meaningful and there's a spirit of that age in it.

[Fayscrescen]

C'est quoi le vrai titre de cette chanson?

[mckfrr]

I love the actress who protrayed Queen Elizabeth, but I just do not like they she looked, she looked so sickly throughout the movie, her sister Mary, in my opinion, looked much prettier. I like Cate Blanchet's protrayal much more, cuz she's not too pale or sickly like this one.

[cytrus500]

@mckfrr

if you look at the paintings of Elizabeth she's very pale in all of them. It was fashionable to be pale at the time. It showed you didn't go outside much which was associated with being rich because lower classes mostly worked outside as farmers and such.

[mckfrr]

That's an actor playing her stupid, you can not know what she looked like unless you see her alive.

[saintesavine]

she was considered beautiful when she first ascended (before small pox) and is described as winsome and light, waving to the people from her caravan. People thought she was a good fairy come to save them after her sister's unpopularity

[SpiritWanderer50]

no wonder shes a virgin if you look at her face

[matko10000]

rofl idk what they sing but i love this song so much xD

[CallXenaWarrior]

I luv the lyrics... there's an underlying meaning to it all

[81lauzurpadora]

I LOVE THIS SOUNDTRACK - it is so emotional and deep....and I adore Cate Blanchett - but Anne-Marie Duff  is my favourite Elizabeth......

[PeasantScab]

@81lauzurpadora

Glenda Jackson was the consummate Elizabeth... so far.

Anne Marie Duff is the Virigin Queen Lite. Her presence is coarse when it should be supremely majesterial. And vice versa.

[eulenwut]

@81lauzurpadora I like both. But tbh I never watched the first Elizabeth with Cate, the first with Anne and the golden age with cate. but anne is so fu**** amazing. she fits so perfectly in that role - amazing. and i love the songs :)

[TheXetumare]

@81lauzurpadora she was....AMAZING...she's not beautiful, so she gets no distraction to the camera, only force and temper

[faeryquene]

@81lauzurpadora Mine too! :)

[vshtevnin]

One of my favorites on this soundtrack

[Guranga22]

Is this the Medieval Baebes? It does sound like them. I love this song and would love to know who performed it, anyone know for sure? xxx

[Elizabeththequene]

My care is like my shadow,

laid bare beneath the sun,

it follows me at all times,

and flies when I pursue it,

I freeze and yet am always burned,

since from myself I turn,

I love and yet am forced to hate,

I seem stark mute,

inside I prate. music... then again as above.

I love and yet am forced to hate, I seem stark mute , inside I prate, some gentler love doth ease itself into my heart and mind, for I am soft and made of snow, love be more cruel or so be kind.

[Madlen1304]

@Elizabeththequene

Thank you for the text. I love the song and the melody and now you helped me to understand it better. Thank you!!!

Regards....

[Elizabeththequene]

@Madlen1304 No problem, I'm glad it helped! Sorry I didn't reply before, I forgot my password for a while!

[Elizabeththequene]

I love The Virgin Queen and it's music. The Medieval Baebes a wonderful!

[porkyt8tr]

I'm absolutely in love with this whole soundtrack. I'm hoping when I finally do get to watch the movie it doesn't ruin the story and illustrations that I imagine while I've listened to the music itself.

[robby27000]

of course not bloody mary was mary tudor

elizabeth{s sister¡¡

[MrElestial]

Why do so many people assume that these songs were based off the movies? The movies have nothing to do with the BBC adaptation!

[slimithy12]

your right. as good as the first hollywood movie was. the tv drama was much better and was historially accurate. i dont understand why hollywood movies change things all the time.the truth is stanger and more entertaining then fiction.

[FreeThought911]

I can see why she is the virgin queen.

[Isabella22Girl]

she wasnt really a virgin u know, is a metaphore...and this woman is extremely beautifull, her eyes are expressive and deep, she would freeze ur blood if shed look deep in ur eyes

[transnet87]

I just love this song, I play it almost every day while I am working. Thanks for finding, and sharing the soundtrack

[RowanBat]

Thank you for uploading, great song from a great series.

[magicstorm1]

wheres the drums? in the movie theres bass drums making it sound more epic.

[zeeratul2007]

My care is like my shadow Laid bare beneath the sun. It follows me at all times And flies when I pursue it. I freeze and yet am always burned Since from myself again I turn. I love and yet am forced to hate. I seem stark mute; inside I prate. Some gentler love doth ease itself Into my heart and mind. For I am soft and made of snow Love, be more cruel or so be kind.

[CdeAbcTuv]

great song :)

[banicairakia]

Very nice song. :)

[Afterthebattle]

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done His too familiar care doth make me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my breast Till by the end of things it be supprest. Some gentler passion slide into my mind, For I am soft and made of melting snow; Or be more cruel, love, and so be kind. Let me or float or sink, be high or low. Or let me live with some more sweet content, Or die and so forget what love ere meant.

[Afterthebattle]

I grieve and dare not show my discontent,

I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,

I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,

I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.

I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,

Since from myself another self I turned.

[ginsbergm]

brilliant nuffsed

[Budaphly]

god i love the lyrics to this song and the melody and chorus really is mesmerizing and soul-melting

[rmephh]

I'm both bewildered and mesmerised by how some people, in this case Martin Phipps, can come up with such hypnotic music.

[CozXDC]

@rmephh It was inspired by Elizabeth's poem called "On Monsieur's Departure"

[juliie007]

i like watching movies about great women who have heard a great impact in history

[QueneAnneBoleyn1533]

The lyrics is a little different than the original one but wonderful

[Eugenekelder]

where can i find the poem? Just love the lyrics and music of this song?

[PhillyGal4Ever]

I had no idea the words were written by Elizabeth R herself! Love it. ♥♥

[05gullisjam]

i was watching the epersodes in school history is is well wikid

[mmmitov]

my care is like my shadow,

laid bare beneath the sun.

it follows me at all times and flies when i pursue it

(моята грижа е като моята сянка, изложена на слънцето. тя ме следва винаги и бяга, когато я преследвам)

[t0629721]

A wonderful composition. And to imagine that the words were inspired by Queen Elizabeth I herself. Even though they were altered they still maintain the pain at which she felt keeping her secret love hidden whilst chasing after that ever elusive prize. Beautiful!

[katharinethequene]

i totally agree :)

[wheresjoemoe]

Immense!

We Watched This Series In A History Lesson!

[jamspice11]

so jealous. havent seen this in ages

tudors my favourite history and we did nothing on them

[XoXprincessleia94XoX]

Same. But i was brought up in scotland. So we had no chance. Mind you we didn't even do Mary Queen of Scots (Stuart).

[jamspice11]

bloody mary lol

her father was nasty to her tho =]

[kouklamou92]

haha bloody mary wasn't the same person as Marcy Queen of Scots

[jamspice11]

yes :s okay lol

[supreme600]

My mom was Mary Queen of Scots in her past life.

[Budaphly]

Really? I myself was both Cleopatra AND Joan of Arc in my past lives.

[anqeiicdemise]

No no, you can't.. I was Cleopatra in my past life!

t-hee. Sorry.

[archer1949]

How come noone was Spotty Tom, The Pig Herder or Ugly Alice, the Chamber Pot Girl in their past lives?

Not EVERYBODY could have been royalty and famous people! Someone had to herd the pigs and slop out the Chamber Pots!

[Myroslav1964]

Фантастична музика

[Jacun17]

wkręciło mi sie to !! <3

[spysiulka]

Piękne, jak zarówno i film ;)

[musicalsighsx]

this song is depressing. O_O

[andrejpwalker]

Never heard this before but it's superb!

[Suantha27]

cudowne.

[altochock]

I love This Song!

[brownunicorn1]

need i say more, this song is wonderfull. brings the good old days back in to your herart when life was not a simple as it is now where we have misic at the push of our button, unlike bback in the days where it was part of life, damn good song.

[vdag94]

wow this is awesome!

[Strakoniii]

but i cant find the movie anywhere pls someone help

[augustus7800]

EPISODE 1, 2, 3 AND 4:

Go to surfthechannel (dot com) and type 'The Virgin Queen'. All 4 episodes are there in full.

Episode 1 & 2 and most of 3 are on Youtube.

[Strakoniii]

i love it too

[nevermind2527]

i love this song

[welllatemethen]

My care is like my shadow in the sun,

Follows me at all time and flies when I pursue it.

[jamspice11]

i just love this song. something beautiful about it but i cant think what it is lol.

[RichiexBerlin]

Mediaeval baebes <3

[LiveAndLoveLife]

I love the Mediaeval Babes.

[joel19192828]

Anyone know how to get the CD?

[sillysam182002uk]

i got mine from amazon x

[paineee]

there was this song in the movie..it went like "summer nights are long..winter nights are cold.." anyone knows anything?

[sillysam182002uk]

its called remember me. its on the soundtrack x

[AzzarClarKyy95]

@sillysam182002uk really ??? on the soundtrack ive got its called Elizabeth's Symphony lol x

[mializa]

love this music

[Audwiie]

Is the program available in French?

[AT24601]

what is the name of that song? track no. 1?

[sillysam182002uk]

its called the virgin queen

[loganduke]

All comments below SHUT UP! enjoy the Mediaeval atmosphere and ROCK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Y­eooow

[CULAVE]

loganduke- the Elizabethan era of the late Tudor dynasty is more post medieval.

[OstrogothRome]

She lived in (as the Chinese curse goes) 'interesting times (as do we today). Continual warfare between the Catholics and Protestants across Europe, countries swung back and forth between the 2, and you could indeed lose your head for believing in one type of Christianity rather than another. I'd like to think we had grown out of this religious hatred and bigotry, but I fear not. There was probably more religious tolerance in 608 AD than in 1608, or in 2008.

[jamspice11]

i actually love this music

[RichiexBerlin]

Mediaeval Baebes are amazing on this soundtrack

<3<3

[worldofcomedy]

my care is like my shadow layed bear beneath the sun, it follows me at all times and flies when i persue it. Its taken from an elizabeth quote.

[watertownmass3]

Does anyone know how to download this from itunes or some other music place like itunes?....Would they have this cd in libraries, do you think?

[platypuscookie]

Anyone want to tell me the lyrics? All I can find on google is the original poem.. or bits of it.

[poliador]

If you want the lyrics look here at the comments section on the the eighth page of comments. When you find them, please write them for others to see.

[linzmoore]

Thanks for uploading this - I have been looking for it ever since I heard it played over the closing credits for that series and loved it. :D

[loganduke]

Oh the long lost faded forgotten power of the English. Lost now to a world of confusion, and the attempt to please a World, which will never forgive our awakening in which we viewed the Planet with a conscious reasoning, carving our small isolated nation into the granite of a time long gone.

[watertownmass3]

Can anyone tell me how do download this song? I've looked on iTunes but it's simply not there...

Thanks, if you comment back.

[22poopoo]

This is based on her own poem

[BattleShipJohn]

it's my CARE is like my shadow, not hair.

[xxxxxxsxy]

i lov dis song xx nd i lov history nd my fav part of it is da tudors xxx nd i lov Elizabeth 1 she has 2 be my fav queen of da past xx 2 me she is nd was da best xx she made wrong desitions, but dnt we all xxx but she mostly made write desitions xx dats wot i think xxx

[cometmoon]

no offence but u need to work on grammar & spelling just a wee bit.

[xxxxxxsxy]

i do know how two spell ... and for you information it was my friend who wrote that comment not me!!!!!