# Does anybody know the name of this Elizabethan tune?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-the-name-of-this-elizabethan-tune/584292
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 4, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-the-name-of-this-elizabethan-tune/584292 "2011-06-04T06:21:59Z")
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-the-name-of-this-elizabethan-tune/584292/1 "2011-06-04T06:21:59Z")
It’s the one being played by Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson) beginning a couple of seconds into [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEmZwuy0bZ0&feature=related).
A long shot, but I’ve had them hit before. Thanks for any info.
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### Author:  [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-the-name-of-this-elizabethan-tune/584292/2 "2011-06-04T07:53:52Z")
No idea but I really like it.
It appears the music for the series was primarily by David Munrow. I really like that sort of music. I may be buying some more CDs soon.
He also worked on Zardoz. How odd.
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-the-name-of-this-elizabethan-tune/584292/3 "2011-06-04T16:35:39Z")
[My Lady Carey’s Dompe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haz914thbDA&feature=related)
Sorry it took so long. I had to wait for my music professor wife to wake up.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-the-name-of-this-elizabethan-tune/584292/4 "2011-06-04T17:14:15Z")
I am as impressed as I am appreciative. Blessed art thou among Dopers, and blessed be the name of Our Lady Queen of Hamster 😃
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### Author:  [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-the-name-of-this-elizabethan-tune/584292/5 "2011-06-04T20:07:18Z")
Heh, once I saw what you were asking about, I started humming the tune before I even clicked on the video. I’ve seen _Elizabeth R_ a zillion times, the first time when I was five or six… whenever it was originally on _Masterpiece Theatre_. Glenda Jackson is sublime, isn’t she?
Alas, I didn’t know the name of the tune, so I wouldn’t have been helpful in the thread. Thanks, **The Hamster King**.
But if you need to know anything about the music from _The Six Wives of Henry VIII_, let me know – I still have the LP soundtrack!
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-the-name-of-this-elizabethan-tune/584292/6 "2011-06-04T20:22:58Z")
> [@choie](#):
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> I’ve seen _Elizabeth R_ a zillion times, the first time when I was five or six… whenever it was originally on _Masterpiece Theatre_. Glenda Jackson is sublime, isn’t she?
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> …
> But if you need to know anything about the music from _The Six Wives of Henry VIII_, let me know – I still have the LP soundtrack!
I love both miniseries. That particular episode has one of my favorite performances of them all- Daphne Slater’s Mary. She’s at once terrifying and pitiable, not an easy thing to pull off; the actress is still alive but apparently hasn’t done anything in front of the camera in over 30 years.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-the-name-of-this-elizabethan-tune/584292/7 "2011-06-04T21:05:42Z")
[Interesting variation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJNbyQEG_1M).