Howdy Djim,

I have read a bit of La Vita Nuova (English translation only), but it's been years ago. I love Dorothy Sayers' translation of Dante's Inferno, and can only wish she'd lived long enough to translate LVN as well - the one that I have is not very inspiring.

I don't know of any "big" composers that have done SoS, but there may well be. I do know that a number of folks have composed a song or two based on some passages, one of my favorites being Michael Card's "Arise my Love." You can hear a very poor quality mp3 clip of it at http://www.christianbook.com/Christi...w=details#curr which doesn't do it justice by a mile. Let me know if you'd like to hear a better one

I also googled (just for fun) and came across this interesting site http://www.song-of-songs.net/help.html where a fellow was/is working on a suite of songs based on Song of Solomon. He has some mp3s loaded, some which are instrumental with synth-vocals, and some which he's apparently working on which are currently only the acapella vocal demo. One of us should email him and ask if he has a .mid version available

Gotta run now - it's "Open house" season

ttfn,
Sherry