Carol Thompkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As a Quaker for many years, I can guarantee you that Amazing Grace is not a
Quaker hymn. Quakers don't sing at meeting except in rare instances, nor do
we have hymns.
I think Philip meant the Shakers, not the Quakers (slight difference!).
Anyway,
The history of Amazing Grace can be found at the following url:
http://www.flash.net/~gaylon/jnewton.htm
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Quakers don't sing at meeting except in rare instances, nor do
we have hymns.
I think Philip meant the Shakers, not the Quakers (slight difference!).
Thanks Anselm. I was thinking Shakers too, but I thought Amazing Grace was
more mainstream than that. It was written by a former slave boat
Amazing Grace 's entry in The Fiddler's Companion on the Ceolas site states
that in Beyond the Hebrides, edited by Donald Fergusson, there is the
following:
"Since the melody is that of a bag-pipe tune and is a gapped-scale melody
with a distinctly modal, plain-song character, it is very
I've searched the web over and can't find the abc's or a gif or jpg of
this tune, The Silvery Voe. It's a Shetland tune on Tom Andersons/Aly
Bain's CD The Sliver Bow.
Does anyone have this in one of these formats? Orcould you point me
in the right direction? AND What's a Voe? or
On Wednesday 11 July 2001 15:40, you wrote:
Wendy Galovich wrote:
Please don't be offended but I have concluded that you haven't read or
do not understand the two quotes which I included in my last e-mail.
Um.. Actually I did read and understand them, and my own conclusion is that
the main
Sigh.. This whole what makes a style 'Scottish'? question has
come up so many times on this list in the past, that it makes me sad and
tired just to think about it :-)
To put it bluntly, you have to be either not be listening, or
totally unfamiliar with the style to not hear it.
