The other week we had a dinner guest, Fr Guglielmo Spirito OFMConv., who is part of a research project looking at the influence and role of music in Tolkien's work. He has acquired the music sheets used at the various churches in Oxford that Professor Tolkien attended, and was pleased to discover that in this recording he is singing Galadriel's words to the same tune that the Dominicans in Blackfriars used to sing 'The Lamentations of Jeremiah'.
Monday 19 February 2018
J.R.R. Tolkien sings
Not very well, admittedly. But this example of his singing Galadriel's Lament (Namarie) is of geeky interest for something other than its quality.
The other week we had a dinner guest, Fr Guglielmo Spirito OFMConv., who is part of a research project looking at the influence and role of music in Tolkien's work. He has acquired the music sheets used at the various churches in Oxford that Professor Tolkien attended, and was pleased to discover that in this recording he is singing Galadriel's words to the same tune that the Dominicans in Blackfriars used to sing 'The Lamentations of Jeremiah'.
The other week we had a dinner guest, Fr Guglielmo Spirito OFMConv., who is part of a research project looking at the influence and role of music in Tolkien's work. He has acquired the music sheets used at the various churches in Oxford that Professor Tolkien attended, and was pleased to discover that in this recording he is singing Galadriel's words to the same tune that the Dominicans in Blackfriars used to sing 'The Lamentations of Jeremiah'.
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