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From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: more on Simple Gifts
Message-ID: <327@zinfandel.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 17:09:30 EST
Article-I.D.: zinfande.327
Posted: Mon Feb  4 17:09:30 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 00:19:24 EST
References: <279@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA>
Reply-To: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval)
Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek CA
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Summary: 

In article <279@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) writes:
>Excuse me... It's not a ShapeNote hymn.  It was something called a Shaker
>hymn, which I suspect is almost the same thing.  Basically, simple songs
>designed for ordinary people to be able to sing.

Well, I don't know for sure about Shaker hymns; the only one I've ever sung was
Simple Gifts.  But last year the chorus I sing with did a set of Shaped Note
hymns from THE SACRED HARP, and they are NOT as easy as they look.  Especially
if you are trying to sing them a capella, and in good tune.  (I.E. perfect 
fifths, none of this equal tempered garbage.)

True, it's not like trying to sing Messiaen (which I've done, too), but it's
hard to do VERY well.

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