John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Kevin Lawton writes:
|| John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
||| Kevin Lawton wrote:
|||| Phil Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|||||
||||| But if you want to have a bash at Tony Blair, the Church of
||||| England
||||| or
||||| the Performing Rights Society please feel free. I may or may not
||||| take
||||| issue with you. Either way it won't ruffle my patriotic feathers.
||||
|||| Please do ! Please, please do have at bash at Tony Blair.
|||| As regards The Church of England - I don't think we should bring
|||| religion
|||| into a group discussion.
|||
||| In fact, if someone wanted to post ABC versions of a few
||| Anglican
||| hymns, I doubt that anyone would find it off topic. There are
||| some
||| good melodies in that hymnal. And I'd bet you would stumble across
||| a
||| few "How do I write that in ABC?" questions while transcribing them.
||
|| Sounds like a good project for somebody so inclined.
|| Quite a few of those Anglican Hymns are older folk melodies with
|| newer words attached. It might be amusing to hear people singing the
|| original words
|| instead. :-) Several other hymns have tunes 'pinched' from the
|| classical repertoire. I guess someone could just take the easy way
|| out and go straight
|| to the original.
|
| Or you could play the game of switching the lyrics among melodies
| with the same phrasing.
|
| One of my favorites is the observation that you can swap the melodies
| for Amazing Grace and House of the Rising Sun. I've heard people do
| both of these to very good effect.
|
| Of course, cleaning up those horrible folk songs by substituting
| good, religious words is a long tradition. And vice versa. Not to
| mention lamenting the corruption in both cases.
Fol-de-rol did-le aye-eh !
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