Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site zinfandel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry 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 Lines: 17 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. -- Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900