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by barca
Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:29 am
Forum: Sounds Off
Topic: What to do with potentially publishable music
Replies: 20
Views: 65883

Publishing

PG Wodehouse's advice as to what to do next (to the beginning writer) was "if they accept it, send another one to that publisher. If they reject it, send that one to another publisher".
by barca
Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:27 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Things that happened at Weddings
Replies: 23
Views: 15945

Wedding bliss

Rendering (in both senses of the word) Widor on a 1 manual C18th chamber organ with distressingly short and narrow keys.

"We've just heard she'll be another 10 minutes"
<90 seconds later, and halfway across a minefield of Cesar Franck double sharps there are no easy ways back or out>
"She's ...
by barca
Sat Apr 10, 2004 10:39 pm
Forum: Sounds Off
Topic: and another thing . . .
Replies: 22
Views: 27225

Alternative Tunes

isn't that what the metrical index is for? (at least, in the more trad hymnals where such things are provided) With a few exceptions any hymn will fit any tune with the appropriate metre, but you have to be careful about the associations that the tune brings. A personal pet hate is a contemporary ...