True, but it gives a very good flavour of the style. And it's fun, none of that awful po-facedness that so often characterises Anglican hymn-singing.
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Not at all keen on the 1980s drumming. Not at all west gallery, I'd have thought. Otherwise, nice. (I have similar difficulties with most performances of medieval instrumental music too.)Originally posted by Miles Coverdale View PostComment
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There are surviving records of drums having been used in West Gallery bands.Originally posted by Vox Humana View PostMy boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed ReardonComment
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In that style?Comment
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I don't think they go into quite that level of detail...My boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed ReardonComment
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In any case, how is it '1980s'? Do you know how drummers in West Gallery bands played in the 1780s or 1880s? It may be quite authentic for all that is known on the subject.My boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed ReardonComment
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Here's one of the best:
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though I suspect this version is more authentic:
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Well I'm no expert on pop styles and perhaps should have written 1990s. It just reminded me of the sort of drumming my son was producing when he was dabbling with computer music in his teens. I also admit that I was deliberately being just a wee bit contentious. No, I don't know how they drummed in the west galleries, or much about how they did it in the Middle Ages and Renaissance either, but I have always had a distinct impression that performers of the latter repertoires are much influenced by contemporary pop music - you can hear this as early as David Munrow - and I'm suspicious. The (few) authentic Renaissance drum beats I have seen are all more simple and earthy than a lot of what we hear (the standard Basse Danse beat being an example). I may be poorly informed, though.Originally posted by Miles Coverdale View PostComment
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This'll please you! For whatever reason, mangerton, I have always thought you were in your forties. I don't know why, but that is the impression that I formed. Now you've been and burst that particular bubble. You are obviously up with the ancients - like me! I'm seventy-one, by the way!Originally posted by mangerton View PostOne very good reason would be that I'm almost always singing in my Scottish Episcopal church choir in Dundee. I've been singing there for over twenty years, after forty years in the C of S.
Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike MilliganComment
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Well. Thank you. I got my bus pass three years ago, so you're a bit older than me.Originally posted by alycidon View PostThis'll please you! For whatever reason, mangerton, I have always thought you were in your forties. I don't know why, but that is the impression that I formed. Now you've been and burst that particular bubble. You are obviously up with the ancients - like me! I'm seventy-one, by the way!
In Glasgow last Friday lunchtime, the day of Scotland v Ireland, I went into a pub for a pint. One of the doormen asked me for ID. I just gave him a look, but thanked him for asking.
Glasgow humour. You can't beat it.
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What about the Yorkshire version?Originally posted by jean View Postthough I suspect this version is more authentic:
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I've just been to a choir practice. We were invited to go to the square in Malton one evening soon to sing Christmas carols to be recorded for SoP. Not many takers in view of the new format; the choir itself has feature in SoP in the past, but this is another world.Comment
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I'm not sure that I don't like this version of ‘He who would valiant be’ better.My boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed ReardonComment
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