Scarborough Fair

New arrangement by MaLj of Scarborough Fair - listen, buy and print out from the publishing site SibeliusMusic.com!

Version of Scarborough Fair with a written guitar part.

The ballad "Scarborough Fair" is one of the most well-known old folk songs that got popular in our time through recordings and performances in the folk and pop scene of the 1960-1970 period.

The text in "Scarborough Fair" is closely related to other old ballads, for example, "The Elfin Knight" and "The Cambric Shirt".

The content has been explained as a list of impossible tasks that the distanced lovers ask each other to perform in order to prove their love and worthiness again. It can also be read as an exchange of subtle insults with references to their character and/or body parts. For example:

1) "Wash it in yonder dry well", meaning perhaps a person with dry eyes, not easily moved to tears,

2) One of the lovers has got a sharp tongue, a "sickle of leather",

3) "Sow some seeds from north of the dam" could mean that one of the lovers has got a snotty nose above his lips ("north of the dam").

This is not a critical edition made in accord with scholarly expertise but a contemporary interpretation made with artistic license. 'He' and 'she' is alternating in this version. The demo is just a quick demo, not a good performance or production!

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Dilettante Music

(This is a test post, after I have tried to import the RSS feed from this blog to my Dilettante Music profile)

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Frustrated users at SibeliusMusic.com

The SibeliusMusic.com site was relaunched some days ago after a major reconstruction, which we users have known about for a year or something. The site has had a dysfunctional Beta sibling on show for many months, to give people a chance to test it and send in feedback to the developers, but now the staff decided to let it run on its own and exchanged the former main site with a version that users have found is still not working as expected...
For example, the self-publisher "store" I signed up for after the site's remake, and am currently sketching a logo image for,


isn't possible to browse my published music in, since the pages where I as store holder can edit the layout and functionality of the place are not fully working as expected. Some actions don't "take" at all, for example the page where the logo itself can be uploaded, and the page where the score catalogue is sorted in categories before it is shown in the shop window. Now I'm waiting for a reply from technical support. [update: immediately before I clicked "publish" for this blog post, I just received a nice email from one of the developers, so I am sure they are listening to the users.]

MaLj
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Old pictures

(Maria Ljungdahl 1976-77. Two of the drawings are interpretations after photos from magazines.)
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Forum London Composers Group Concert

A message from Cedric Peachey, reposted from the SibeliusMusic chat page:

Three Spring concerts, including works by several SibMus composers, have been organised by the Forum London Composers Group, starting this weekend. The venue for all three concerts is:

St. Gabriel's Church, Warwick Square, Pimlico, SW1V 2AD

Saturday 18 April 2009 at 7.30pm

Celebrating the String Quartet, Plus One
Featuring music by Martin Jones, Chonon Lewis, Tony Matthews, Michael Regan and Brian Wilshere.

Performance duties are shared between the Bishop Quintet, with Sue Bishop (clarinet), and the Con Brio Quartet.

Saturday 9 May 2009 at 7.30pm

Chamber music for wind and piano
Featuring music by Elizabeth Winters, Natalie Bleicher, David Arditti, Cedric Peachey, Martin Jones, Tony Matthews and Michael Regan.

Saturday 16 May 2009 at 7.30pm

Songs and Choruses
Featuring music by Ann Wolff, Andrew Bungay, David Arditti, Alan Taylor, Cedric Peachey, Tony Matthews and Brian Wilshere.

Tickets available on the door or in advance: 020 7635 7992.
All seats £10. Discount available: Three concerts for £25.

St Gabriel's is a splendid Victorian church dating from 1853 and is noted for its spacious acoustic.

For further information on the Forum London Composers Group, please see: www.forumcomposers.org.uk

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So Long Ago (Izabella)

SO LONG AGO



1. In the eyes of Izabella

any man was good as gold.

That precisely meant a fellow

could be sized for lies he told.



Shiny, sticky, stiff and old.

Always right, and often cold.


Bye - so long, so long ago!



Hey nonny nonny, hey nonny nonny no

Fol de rol and fol de roodle

Wotcher cock and howdy doodle

There lived a lass and also lackaday

Men were decievers, or so they say...



2. In the days of Izabella

girls believed what they were told.

Women's ways were not Cruella's
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Ladies shouldn't be so bold!



Fluffy, feeble, fair and old.

Always wrong, but seldom cold.


Bye - so long, so long ago!




copyright 2007 Barry Booth & Maria Ljungdahl

Sheet music for this song can be purchased and printed online from a score page at Barry Booth's composer home page at SibeliusMusic.com. A simple demo version can be heard at Myspace.

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Gold Is When You Find It

Gold Is When You Find It

Images and video editing - Maria Ljungdahl, Sweden.

Soundtrack - instrumental version of "Morning Song", composed by Barry Booth, UK. Used with permission.

The music - "Morning Song" by Barry Booth with lyrics by Fran Landesman - is published at SibeliusMusic.com

The video is a work of art or fiction and does not tell any particular story. The quilt is not made by the author. The wall painting at the hospital is not by the author. The owner of the sailboat and the buildings are unknown to the author of the video. The few photos that are not taken by MaLj are used with permission.
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