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Showing posts with label Harmony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harmony. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Song ~ A Place in the Choir

Some one just sent me this email.

Something we could use just before making an announcement for new choir members.

Remember what I said that most bass singers are big while most tenor singers are small?
Well, this is the some of the time that they're small... check out the small bass singer.

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Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:41 AM
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Watch Celtic Thunder, It's not bluegrass but the music is close.
Check out the young guy on the left singing the low part.......

Celtic Thunder Heritage - "A Place in the Choir"

Lyrics to: A Place In The Choir

Chorus
All God's creatures got a place in the choir,
Some sing low and some sing higher,
Some sing out loud on the telephone wire,
Some just clap their hands or paws or anything they got. (Chorus)

Verse 1
Listen to the top with the little birds singing,
And the melodies and the high notes ringing,
And the hoot-owl cries over everything,
And the blackbird disagrees.

Verse 2
Singing in the night time singing in the day,
And the little duck quacks and he's on his way,
And the otter hasn't got much to say,
And the porcupine talks to himself. (Chorus)

Verse 3
The dogs and the cats, they take up the middle,
Where the honeybee hums and the cricket fiddles,
The donkey brays and the pony neighs,
And the old gray badger sighs.

Verse 4
Well listen to the bass its the one on the bottom,
Where the bullfrog croaks and the hippopotamus,
moans and groans with a big to do,
And the old cow just goes moo. Chorus

Verse 5
Its a simple song living song everywhere,
By the ox and the fox and the grizzly bear,
The grumpy alligator and the hawk above,
The sly old weasel and the turtledove. 

(Chorus) (Chorus) (Chorus)

(Ending)
All God's creatures got a place in the choir

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Monday, February 13, 2012

Please Don't Ask Me

A lovely duet.

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Please Don't Ask Me (Duet Version)
~ by John Farnham & Dannielle Gaha 




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Please Don't Ask Me - John Farnham (Lyrics)

Please don't ask me, what am i thinking, It's about you
And please don't ask me, I never can see you, What can i do
My first impulse is to run to your side
My heart's not free, and so i must hide
Please don't ask me, What i'm gonna say to you

I toss and turn, can't sleep at night, It's worrying me, 
I go to bed, turn out the light, but your face i see
It only hurts, the more i pretend, that we could ever, be more than friends
Please don't ask me, Why I'm so in love with you

You could easily make me happy, that I know
But I try my best to never tell you so
I will sing to you my love songs, and pretend 
But I'll keep "my distance" (the secret) right down to the end

Please don't ask me why I'm not talking I just can't explain (no, no, no!)
And please don't ask me why I go walking out in the rain

I could not live, the lie it would take
To have you here, would be a mistake
Please don't ask me, why I'm so in love with you
No, please don't ask me

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Monday, January 02, 2012

Monday, September 06, 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010

Polyphony ~ Music Definition

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Polyphony
~ is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices

Homophony (Parallel Harmony)
~ is music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords

Monophony
~ is music with just one voice
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Famous Example of Contrapuntal Polyphony
A bar from JS Bach's Fugue No. 17 in A flat. BWV 862.
from Das Wohltemperirte Clavier (Part 1)

You can hear the tune here → Download


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Polyphony ~ Wikipedia
http://www.answers.com/topic/polyphony#
In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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