Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 03:18:32 GMT



On 24 Feb 1997 12:38:11 -0500, dickeney@access5.digex.net (Dick Eney)
wrote:

>This is not a new discussion on this group :) IIRC in a previous run of
>this thread, it was revealed that in the Middle Ages, filk was called
>"Contrefait" and referred to both writing a secular song to a religious
>tune and writing a religious song to a secular tune. 
>
I always wondered, which came first Greensleeves or What Child Is
This?
Jack Mowery

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