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In 2014 the dirge was recorded by Matt Berninger and Andrew Bird for the AMC TV series Turn [10] In 2016 a version was used as the theme for BBC's The Living and the Dead supernatural horror TV series, performed by The Insects featuring Howlin' Lord. "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is sometimes considered a ballad, but unlike a ballad it is lyric rather than ...
"A lyke-wake dirge. Versus II. First interlude: 'If ever thou gav'st hos'n and shoon'" Ricercar II. "Sacred History: 'To-morrow shall be my dancing day'" "A lyke-wake dirge. Versus III. Second interlude: 'From Whinnymuir when thou may'st pass'" "Westron Wind" "A lyke-wake dirge. Versus IV. Postlude: 'If ever thou gav'st meat or drink'"
The Lyke Wake Dirge, written in old North Riding Dialect, was set to music by the folk band Steeleye Span. Although the band was not from Yorkshire, they attempted Yorkshire pronunciations in words such as "light" and "night" as /li:t/ and /ni:t/.
A dirge (Latin: dirige, nenia [1]) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral. Often taking the form of a brief hymn , dirges are typically shorter and less meditative than elegies . [ 2 ]
Igor Stravinsky composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951–52, which used stanzas from the 15th-century "Lyke-wake Dirge" as a narrative frame for other anonymous English lyrics, and later designated A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer (1961) as "a cantata for alto and tenor soli, speaker, chorus, and orchestra".
Her version of the traditional hymn "Lyke Wake Dirge" predates the version by Pentangle by over two years and the album's title is taken from one of the lines in that song's chorus. "T'es pas un autre" is a French language reworking of her well-known composition " Until It's Time for You to Go " that she originally recorded on her second album ...
Elements of the Lyke-Wake Dirge bear resemblance to concepts of the afterlife found in Germanic cosmology. The "Brig o' Dread" is possibly related to the bridge Bifröst (which probably means "trembling-way"), spanning the divide between the world of humans and the world of gods, or the Gjallarbrú , which spans the river Gjøll ('resounding ...
"Lyke-Wake Dirge" "Black Jack Davey" "Two Magicians" "Blackleg Miner" "All Around My Hat" Disc 2: "When I Was On Horseback" "John Barleycorn" "Long Lankin" (Roud 6, Child 93) "One Misty Moisty Morning" "Let Her Go Down" "Gaudete" "The Weaver and the Factory Maid" "Drink Down the Moon" "King Henry" "Rosebud in June (hidden track)"