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Tune Add: The Merry Nightingale

GUEST,leeneia 07 Jun 06 - 09:52 AM
masato sakurai 07 Jun 06 - 10:08 AM
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Subject: Tune Add: The Merry Nightingale
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 09:52 AM

Joe has asked that I send him the tune for a round called "The Merry Nightingale." I've sent him the MIDI, and it should appear here soon. It was published in Ravenscroft's "Pammelia" in 1609. This book was a best-seller in its day, and people are still singing from it.

If you have a music program, you can download my MIDI file and edit it to suit yourself. Power!

A few comments about it: first you will hear the complete tune so you can learn it. When you hear it, you might think, "That's ugly." However, when you hear the parts together, it becomes beautiful and interesting. Many rounds from this era are like that.

I hope Joe Offer still gets e-mail at joe@mudcat.org Otherwise, be patient.

The tune has a big range. That's because it was intended for men to sing, and men (given practice)can switch their voices from high to low. It's another way they have of showing off.

I put it in the key of C for brightness, but at my house we will do it in A. We are all altos at my house.

SPECIAL OFFER! If anybody actually downloads the tune and says "Thanks, I intend to sing/play this beautiful piece," I will post another of the same type.

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Subject: RE: Tune Add: The Merry Nightingale
From: masato sakurai
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 10:08 AM

The Nightingale score in Pammelia.

    Click here for the primary thread on this subject.

    -Joe Offer-


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