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Originally Posted by Don José
I was expecting comments on the writing rather than on the contents, but anyway it's interesting what you said. I've got some questions:
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Sorry about that: it's a hazard of being a partisan of a musical tradition that some people view as having lost the culture wars around musical education in America.
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Originally Posted by Don José
- When you said that 'ut' was G in the very begining, do you mean that the scores as this one has been transported transposed?
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Perhaps. Because with the overlapping system for naming notes, the first overlapping hexachord above the lowest one starts with 'ut' on the 'fa' of the lowest hexachord, so that the first C can be identified as "fa-ut". Also it has been quite common to notate vocal music in a convenient key for the notation system and to pitch it for singing in a convenient key for the voices available, rather than assuming that the notated key is supposed to be the absolute pitch at which the music must be sung.
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Originally Posted by Don José
(I know wikipedia is not a reliable source of information, but this score can be found in many books on History of Music.)
I think I'm remembering one of the teachers at the Conservatory talking about what you said, but as I get older, I'm getting more absent-minded . I'm curently teaching music at a secondary school, and always keen on learning new things, so thanks for your information.
I was going to ask you what 'shape-note singing' was, but I just have a 'Google look' and found this website:
http://fasola.org/
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Yes, my people. That's one of the 3 best resources of on-line information about shaped-note music in general and about Sacred Harp singing in particular.
The other two are: (1) the web site of Dr. Warren Steel at University of Mississippi (Oxford), and (2) the English wikipedia articles on Sacred Harp and on shape notes.
The Sacred-Harp resources listings attached to fasola.org and to Dr. Steel's page list most of the non-electronic sources of information.
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Originally Posted by Don José
Just from reading the first page, it sounds interesting. I'll be back to it.
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Cool! You can find videos of traditional and less-traditional renditions of the music on youtube, and fasola.org has links to most local and regional singing communities in the world.
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Sometimes "disclaimer" refers to an acknowledgement of the existence a relationship that some people may consider to be a conflict of interest or a possible source of bias.