[bookshare-discuss] Re: A Multimedia Event for Gordon Lightfoot Fans
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:19:51 -0700
Well, I don't know, Ann, I learn my stuff by ear mostly, but still and all,
I'd like to get song lyrics and at least hear what the tunes are supposed to
sound like. I notice that when I learn a song, over the course of time, the
way I sing a lyric may differ from how I heard it the first time. Prime
example is a version of "Casey Jones" sung by Joe Hickerson. I learned the
lyrics he used but I notice the way I sing it is more syncopated than his
version. Regardless of whether you have a written lyric or not, your
interpretation of what you sing is a different matter entirely. We all
tend to be creative some way or other. I wouldn't worry about written lyrics
per se. Regards, Kim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Parsons [mailto:akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:03 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: A Multimedia Event for Gordon Lightfoot
Fans
Hi all,
Hey, Kim, if they were all written down, then they'd migrate from Folk songs
to composed songs. Reading a score of A L'ouette isn't the same as learning
to sing it. We have to keep up the traditions here, you know.
Of course, I'm prejudice because any folk song I ever learned, I learned by
ear. By the time I was in a chorus that sang a folk song, I knew it, and
only had to modify to fit the arranger. Besides, arrangers sometimes do an
awful job of arranging a song, making it much more complicated and fancy
than it need be. Look at what all those arrangers have done with Silent
Night. They ruin it with augmented chording and blah! It's supposed to be
simple, straight forward and plain, like good wheaten bread.
Just my thoughts on a funny Tuesday afternoon.
"Where ha' ye been Lord Randall me son..."
Ann P.
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