{"id":7523,"date":"2017-10-09T05:56:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T05:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2017-10-09T06:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T06:04:36","slug":"come-down-o-maid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2017\/10\/come-down-o-maid\/","title":{"rendered":"“Come Down, O Maid” – Music for Tennyson’s “The Princess” by Rodney Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rational Argumentator is pleased to feature the most current arrangement of Rodney Rawlings’s musical adaptation of lyrics from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s 1847 poem, The Princess. <\/em>This is a piano rendition, following up on Mr. Rawlings’s 2004 version<\/a> of this piece for string orchestra.<\/div>\n
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Composer’s Description: <\/strong>In the link below I present a piano rendition of my song \u201cCome Down, O Maid.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The song is my musical setting of a Tennyson lyric that appears in his long poem The Princess<\/em> (1847). Those much-loved verses, which I have presented at the very bottom of this post, have been described<\/a> as \u201ca summons to the valleys of domestic affection, away from the heights of idealism and abstraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

MP3 file for piano rendition (left-click to listen, right-click to download):<\/em><\/strong> \u201cCome Down, O Maid\u201d<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Length: <\/strong>4:46<\/p>\n