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Stand Whoso List

from What Should I Say by Elysian Fields

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What should I say (the first 5 tracks are one set of songs and pieces
What should I say has its roots in one of the first pieces I wrote for Jenny, For Thomas Wyatt,. Jenny asked me who Thomas Wyatt was and I told her he was one of my favourite poets and had been since my first year University English literature courses. Wyatt was a great innovator and is credited with bringing the sonnet form to England both in translation of Latin verse and in his original poetry. In 2017 Jenny asked if I would like to set some of his poems for Elysian Fields. By this stage singer/violinist Susie Bishop had joined the band and I had in mind her superb music intelligence and excellent diction as well as the ability to use the electrical version of the viola da gamba, an instrument that in its acoustic form would have been well known during Wyatt’s lifetime. Each of the poems is first heard in a simple setting, often over a pedal point, then again with more elaborate instrumental accompaniment. (Matt McMahon)

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Stand Whoso List - by Sir Thomas Wyatt

Stand whoso list upon the slipper top
Of court’s estates, and let me here rejoice;
And use me quiet without let or stop,
Unknown in court, that hath such brackish joys:
In hidden place, so let my days forth pass,
That when my years be done, withouten noise,
I may die agèd after the common trace,
For him death gripeth right hard by the crope
That is much known of other; and of himself alas,
Doth die unknown, dazed with dreadful face.

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from What Should I Say, released October 21, 2018
Music by Matt McMahon

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Elysian Fields Sydney, Australia

Elysian Fields is one of the world's rare electric viola da gamba bands. The sextet was founded by gambist, Jenny Eriksson along Matt Keegan, sax, and Matt McMahon, piano. We largely play original music and arrangements written by group members.

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