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Aug. 21st, 2006
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Aug. 21st, 2006 10:54 pmMy job, while it can be exceedingly hectic at times, does occasionally allow for some down time when there are no incoming calls. I have managed to use this time sometimes productively, sometimes not -- there were days I voraciously read American Gods or Castles of Steel with every free minute I had (The Power of Productivity, while intriguing, is not quite as riveting for me). When I have downtime and am not reading or processing paperwork, I am often online and have thus read a lot of Slate and Wikipedia this summer.
Today I did find a few things of note. On a whim I brought my copy of Rounds Galore in and started teaching myself Thomas Ravenscroft's "Sing With Thy Mouth" from Deuteromelia. Some internet searching on whatever Deuteromelia was quickly brought me to this wonderful site of Ravenscroft facsimiles. Of particular interest to SWILfolk is this printing of "Lord, turn not away Thy face", with its C-clefs, ancient noteheads, and archaic orthography. There are many other rounds here as well, including "Sing with thy mouth", a more readable version of which may be found on p. 7 of Rounds Galore, and which I would like to teach at a roundsing.
Admittedly, I would have appreciated having a copy of Gardner Read's Music Notation on hand. With the clefs, at least, it is perhaps a good thing that Jan Hamer was insistent on making everyone read alto clef in Music 40. Also, it would really be wonderful to have an Experimental Advanced Roundsing at some point. This would involve trying out of new rounds, of which there are so many, between sources like this, the many things in Rounds Galore and the blue book we've never tried, and the volumes of Mozart and Haydn canons I found in Underhill. Hence an Experimental roundsing for trying things out; I say Advanced only because some ability to read music might be helpful.
Also, I found this rather entertaining website of Gilbert and Sullivan parodies.
Today I did find a few things of note. On a whim I brought my copy of Rounds Galore in and started teaching myself Thomas Ravenscroft's "Sing With Thy Mouth" from Deuteromelia. Some internet searching on whatever Deuteromelia was quickly brought me to this wonderful site of Ravenscroft facsimiles. Of particular interest to SWILfolk is this printing of "Lord, turn not away Thy face", with its C-clefs, ancient noteheads, and archaic orthography. There are many other rounds here as well, including "Sing with thy mouth", a more readable version of which may be found on p. 7 of Rounds Galore, and which I would like to teach at a roundsing.
Admittedly, I would have appreciated having a copy of Gardner Read's Music Notation on hand. With the clefs, at least, it is perhaps a good thing that Jan Hamer was insistent on making everyone read alto clef in Music 40. Also, it would really be wonderful to have an Experimental Advanced Roundsing at some point. This would involve trying out of new rounds, of which there are so many, between sources like this, the many things in Rounds Galore and the blue book we've never tried, and the volumes of Mozart and Haydn canons I found in Underhill. Hence an Experimental roundsing for trying things out; I say Advanced only because some ability to read music might be helpful.
Also, I found this rather entertaining website of Gilbert and Sullivan parodies.
