How Greensleeves Works In Six the Musical
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Published 2022-10-09
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0:00 Greensleeves Is Everywhere in Six
1:23 Greensleeves and Henry VIII
2:31 Established Titles
4:05 Greensleeves as a Metaphor
5:07 Hidden Greensleeves Reference
6:15 Two Contradictions
7:00 A Flat vs. A Natural
7:59 B Flat Major Wives
8:41 Contradictions Resolved
10:32 Modulation Unlocked
Six the Musical won the Tony for Best Original Score for a reason. Composers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss weave musical complexity into their song storytelling, and this is exemplified in their use of the classic folk song Greensleeves. By tracking Greensleeves from the beginning of the show to the end, we can chart the journey of the Queens and see them grow beyond their historical baggage. In one word, it's the Historemix!
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All Comments (21)
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I don't know if it means anything in this context, but also as Cathrine Parr is setting up her song, she has Joan play a "B flat major 7", which you said was part of the chord that made the wii-i-ives at the end fit- it clicked for me when you mentioned it, and i dunno if it has any meaning to this whole thing-
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Anne Boleyn is particularly the one wearing green sleeves cuffs as she will never be able to shake off being the famous, decapitated wife of Henry VIII. Even though she isn’t the only one… Catherine Howard even makes a comment on it in the opening song “I’m done ‘cause all this time I’ve been just one word in a stupid rhyme”.
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You’re talking about a reference to the last six notes of green sleeves. If you juxtapose the order of the fates of the wives over this reference , two of the clashing notes are over the wives who were beheaded and the last clashing is over the one who survived. Could this be intentional?
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So now I’m just sitting here hoping you’ll cover All You Wanna Do, because that song is ridiculously effective at getting its point across.
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i LOVE how the change of greensleeves happens. I expected the writers to have them go down for it to fit over the harmony, but instead the harmony changes around them. they didn't change themselves to fit in, the context in which we see them is shifted or altered so we see/hear them how they are musically meant to be heard. like.. literally, what the show is about, US shifting OUR perspective to see the queens as THEY tell it, not just as the six wives of Henry VIII. this show just keeps getting better.
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This was mindblowing, especially because I've had the theory for years that they sang out of tune at the beginning because they were not a real group yet while singing it on tune at the end of the show when they're finally a team. I just never had knowledge of how deeper than reference was
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I literally had a huge convo with my husband about how the opening song sounded so weird and I COULDN'T place why!??? Youtube listened in and sent me your genius and now I KNOW! Thank you for the super well made animations and audio cuts. It must have taken ages.
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i haven't even listened to six but boy am i a sucker for musical motifs and i appreciated this anyway
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We sang Greensleeves at school today! We were having musical history lessons :D and we were studying Reneissance. I just smiled and sang along and nobody knew what I was thinking of bc here in Finland we don't really study English history😆
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Bravo! That “wives” thing always bugged me! Now I need to go re-listen to the cast album with this in mind! Thank you!
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Tbh, everything works in Six the Musical. (I love your song breakdowns btw - it's incredible that you have the intelligence to do so. I admire your content, and you help a lot of people appreciate the art of music more.)
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in the second to last song, in annes part she says 'henry sent me a poem all about my greensleeves' too🤣
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I have always wondered why the harmony doesn’t ‘fit’ in that bit- I hadn’t clocked that it was the end of the Greensleeves motif!
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Idk if this matters, but at the end, Anne says, " Henry sent me a poem all about my green sleeves changed a couple words put it on a sick beat" I thought maybe that was a reference
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six is such an underrated musical, it's definitely one of my favorites because everything seems to work so well together
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Six has always been a show I loved listening to but didn't really get why it grabbed me emotionally. Ty for contextualizing 🙌
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I LOVE THIS! Especially the bit about the Queens breaking free from their handcuffs to history / Henry VIII, and Boleyns green cuffs! Good job <3
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Thank you for making clear why I feel differently from the beginning to the end. I knew the multiple Greensleeves refrences, but being musically illiterate, I didn't know how to define WHY I felt the way I felt. This makes it so much more clear for those of us who don't read music.
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so so so glad you explained the musical contradictions in ex-wives. those notes always bugged me, now I know it was deliberate!
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In the original cast recording, the one that NEVER saw the light of day, greensleeves is everywhere and I'm surprised it almost had a leitmotif utility.
