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. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
