Re: PDF author metadata

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 2016-07-10 7:06 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote:
> Of course English poetry used to be alliterative, not rhyming, until
> Chaucer introduced that new-fangled French habit of end rhymes!
> Getting back to setting music though, would not the driving beat of
> alliterative ballards and sagas not lend themselves to some grand
> music?  Has anyone ever set "Piers the Plowman", the "Greene Knight"
> or "Beowulf" (all in the original language) to music?

It’s possible that some in Tolkien fandom have written music something
like this; the poetry JRRT wrote for the characters from Rohan was in
the alliterative form.

(Were end-rhymes so new in Europe?  They seem to have come into fashion
in Hebrew liturgical poetry [“piyyut”] around the seventh or eighth
century C.E.)

—Joel C. Salomon