Re: [Finale] OT: Looking for Verse to Deep River

2003-06-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Jun 2003 at 11:12, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >I'm having some difficulty with determining what the generally > >expected melody of the verse is for the spiritual, Deep River. I've > >been checking out MIDI and MP3 files using Google, and it seems there > >are 2 main variants plus a bunch of ve

RE: [Finale] OT: Looking for Verse to Deep River

2003-06-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Jun 2003 at 5:15, Cecil Rigby wrote: > > Verse Version 1 > > http://www.arach.net.au/~algernon/deepriver/ > this has more passing tones, especially in the bass, than I'm familiar > with, and I've *never* heard a plagal cadence on the last "campground" ! Well, if I were to have crit

Re: [Finale] OT: Looking for Verse to Deep River

2003-06-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Jun 2003 at 9:03, Richard Huggins wrote: > > From: "Cecil Rigby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > An obvious question- are you preparing an arrangement? Have you looked on > > the American Memories website to see what they might have ? (a Library of > > Congress site)http://memory.loc.gov

Re: [Finale] OT: Looking for Verse to Deep River

2003-06-19 Thread Richard Huggins
> From: "Cecil Rigby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An obvious question- are you preparing an arrangement? Have you looked on > the American Memories website to see what they might have ? (a Library of > Congress site)http://memory.loc.gov/ I was curious and checked it out for myself. What a coo

RE: [Finale] OT: Looking for Verse to Deep River

2003-06-19 Thread Cecil Rigby
Hi David- > Verse Version 1 > http://www.arach.net.au/~algernon/deepriver/ this has more passing tones, especially in the bass, than I'm familiar with, and I've *never* heard a plagal cadence on the last "campground" ! > The second variant seems to be what's printed in modern hymnals: >