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Queen Mary's Song" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1889. The words are by Tennyson , sung by Queen Mary I of England as she plays a lute in scene 2, act 5 of his 1875 play Queen Mary: A Drama .
Upon his death, leading politicians proclaimed Mary's and Edward's Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, as queen instead. Mary speedily assembled a force in East Anglia and deposed Jane, who was eventually beheaded. Mary was—excluding the disputed reigns of Jane and the Empress Matilda—the first queen regnant of England.
"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" is an English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed.
The song was recorded in 2002 as the third single from their debut album D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat. The song is played in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen , The Prince and Me and during the end credits of the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action , and an instrumental version of the song can be heard during some scenes from the season five ...
The Garter Herald, Gilbert Dethick, proclaimed Mary as Queen in Latin, French and English. There was a cry of "Largesse". At the conclusion of the meal, hypocras and wafers were served, a final course known as a void. Mary washed her hands, and stood on the step known as the "hault place" with Elizabeth and Anne of Cleves.
"Light One Candle," written in 1982 by Peter Yarrow and first performed at Carnegie Hall, [1] [2] was a pacifist response to the 1982 Lebanon War as reflected in the lyrics: "Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice justice and freedom demand, "Light one candle for the wisdom to know when the peacemaker's time is at hand."
Queen Mary appears as a main character in Rosamund Gravelle's debut play Three Queens, [6] [7] and first played by Becky Black. Set in 1554 the play is about a fictional encounter between Queen Mary I of England, Lady Jane Grey, and Princess Elizabeth Tudor, brought together by their cousin, Cardinal Reginald Pole, the night before Lady Jane Grey is due to be executed.
As a court composer, Purcell was given the task of composing odes for the birthday of Queen Mary. Come, Ye Sons of Art, written for performance in April 1694, was the sixth and final ode: Queen Mary died at the end of that year. [2] 20th-century performances included the inaugural concert of the BBC Third Programme (the forerunner of Radio 3 ...