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[incendavery]

it is an ✨️Experience✨️

[enbycrip]

Seeking advice from folks who hopefully have more knowledge than me for three very different kinds ofnew (to me) music to listen to in the coming year:

- choral, shapenote and plainchant music that *isn’t* Christmas carols. I fucking adore music from these genres every year at Christmas and then realise I don’t know where to look for more that isn’t Christmassy. I did a bit of a short dive when we were watching Carols From Kings this year and saw some potential pointers, but please point me at your favourites. Modern or traditional arrangements of medieval, renaissance and 17th century work, or newer works; please, lay them on me!

- modern music made by indigenous peoples from the Americas, Sami, Mongolian Steppes, Ainu, Australian Aboriginal folk and South Pacific Islanders. I don’t mind the genres, but I’d really love to hear more music people who have been so marginalised and silenced are making now with the internet to share and distribute it, and hopefully ways to get paid for it too on places like Bandcamp. I’ve heard some stunning modern Mongolian throat singing and rapping and I’ve seen incredible mixes of traditional and modern dance from folk like Notorious Cree, but I admit I’m not 100% sure where to start in looking for more. If this is your music, please put ways I can pay you to listen to your music because I’m very aware how shitty streaming services are for that!

- good writing playlists of 1910s music hall and 1920s Chicago jazz and blues; I’m working on a queer urban fantasy novel set in 1920s Chicago with significant flashbacks to 1910s England and it’s always nice to have soundtracks to set the mood while you write!

[foxiapp]

Sacred Harp singers await revision of shape-note Christian hymnal

BREMAN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. In four-part harmony, they sing together for hours, carrying on a more than 180-year-old American folk tradition that is as much…

[khazzman]

I did not know I needed a merging of Tolkien's verses with Sacred Harp music but now I know I was in darkness and have now seen the light!

Poem: Song of Eärendil

Tune: 26 Samaria

Composer: Maggie Denson-Cagle, 1936

I return briefly to celebrate the discovery of Earendel, an unprecedentedly distant star detected by the Hubble telescope! The name is a reference to the Old English poem Christ I, where Earendel, meaning “shining ray”, is addressed: Eala Earendel, engla beorhtast - “Hail, Earendel, brightest of angels”. But since this line was where Tolkien got his Eärendil idea in the first place, I’m willing to bet that this wasn’t an Old English enthusiast but rather a hardcore Tolkien fan flexing. 

This is, of course, another selection of verses from Bilbo’s poem about Eärendil, this time tweaked to focus on the moment when Elwing, in the form of a bird, reunites with Eärendil and brings him the Silmaril to light his way to Valinor. Birds, stars, the sea: what else does a story need?

Lyrics (abridged) are under the cut. 

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[withbroombefore]

I saw a poll earlier about participation in regular in-person activities, with numbers that make me wonder if a lot of people don't know what the options are or how to find them. Here are some that I have always found welcoming to new people; for me, these are ways to leave my apartment and get some human interaction without having to make much conversation (there is a reasonable amount of that if you want it, but since it's understood that you are there to do an activity, the thing you are doing is the point rather than pure socializing). A search for "[activity] [location]" should tell you what's available in your area.

Contra dancing: This goes at the top and gets explanation because it's my favorite. I grew up doing this and love it very very much; I always look for local dances when I move somewhere new. Most dances are very beginner-friendly (though there are some exceptions), and zero dance experience is required to participate. Many will include a lesson for beginners in the half-hour before the main event starts, and there are always instructions throughout the evening. You truly do not need to know anything going in. The convention is to switch partners throughout the night, and it's completely okay to attend alone and ask people you don't know to dance. Try Contra Dancing has a search tool by zip code. Typically $8-15.

Community theatre tech: Acting is an option if that's your thing, but in my experience, tech is easier if you're looking for an activity because there's not usually competition--you often can just volunteer without needing to worry about auditions or casting. Roles like run crew (where you move set between scenes and such) don't require any prior knowledge, and plenty of the other tasks can be learned with a little training. If you turn up reliably, the word will spread--good techies are invaluable. Free to participate.

Community band or chorus: Prior experience in playing an instrument is necessary for the band; for singing, it depends on the type of chorus. Some are auditioned, others are just thrilled by any participation. May require dues.

Shapenote singing: A more niche one and another of my personal favorites (I ignore the religious lyrics and treat them as poetry). This can take some time to pick up, but many places have a small monthly sing that is very welcoming to new people. fasola.org has lots of information about the tradition and where to sing. Free, optional donations accepted.

Library events: Find your local public library's website and look for a calendar or events page to see if anything appeals. Typically free.

Crafting groups: Yarn stores and other craft supply places often have regular open gatherings (typically free) and/or classes (may cost money for teaching and supplies).

Games: If you have a local game store, check their website for events. Or search "[location] [chess club]" or whatever is your thing. Usually free.

Dance: Depends on what is available in your area. A studio where I am has a monthly swing dance, with beginner lessons before, for $10.

Sports: I don't really do these but they presumably exist and can be found like the other things.

The important thing is to just go do the thing. It will probably feel awkward the first time--that's normal! These are all spaces where the point is for people to show up and participate. They want you to be there, and they want you to come back! Otherwise they can't keep existing. Several of these (contra dancing, shapenote, a lot of crafting groups) are especially excited about new people and younger participants and will be thrilled to teach you how to do the thing. And the only way to make it feel comfortable is to plow through the first awkwardness and go back until you decide if you actually enjoy it or not. When you find a thing you like, keep going, and after a little while you end up with a community of people to see regularly who share your interests. This is what humans are supposed to do.

[necarion]

In the 18th and 19th centuries, American hymn writers named their hymns after random places. These would have nothing to do with the song, but were a way of citing the tune in case someone wanted to put different lyrics. So we have the classic Revolutionary song "Chester" and "Africa" by William Billings, and "Sherburne" by Daniel Read (a classic Sacred Harp shapenote piece). (I really like that Chester slowly builds from the TB and adds a soprano doubling, then the alto, then the soprano descant, which lets the piece remain interesting across many verses.)

After listening to a lot of Billings, I decided to write an American-style hymn. I tried to think of a good name, and then settled on "Fresno", because it cracked me up.

[insatiablebloodlove]

Thank you @werebutch for introducing me to Fleet Foxes, First Aid Kit, and shapenote music. Life changing music right here!!!!!!!

[incendavery]

one thing at a time

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[owlsie-hoot]

I wanted to finish that one shot today. But then things happened and then I had to go to my weekly shapenote singing. And then more things happened and now I cannot sleep and my voice is gone.

[adultjazz]

TRACK BY TRACK #3

this post is about Plenary

the title comes from a hymn from the Sacred Harp Book, sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne

i started going to singings back in 2019, i was shy and i find it hard to read music

shapenote is supposed to be more accessible, but i’m not quite sure it is

lucky the harmonies are all so guessable

stopped going because of the pandemic but it was great to sing about death and crisis and salvation together

i am hoping to write some new shapenote songs soon- think its a good vessel for some contemporary concerns too

the hymn Plenary contains a line that it is sung at the end of our song Plenary

about being unprepared for death and  v. v. sad about it 

i think its about loss of faith maybe and then how its nice to cobble something together out of the ashes of faith

hybrid posable god figure with automatic grip function, comes with scuba expansion kit

hand of benediction into Vs up! Up yours!!

absolute spiritual cherry picking for maximum personal efficiency 

thinking about doubting thomas actually putting his hand in

that priest that wrote rock of ages, sheltering in the mendips (I have just googled it and he was called Augustus Toplady, nice)

as a small gift here are my favourite from the red book:

Bridgewater

I Would See Jesus

Invocation (First)

Ballstown 

Ode On Science

All Is Well

Rocky Road

Canaan’s Land

Present Joys

The Greived Soul

and a link to a website where a robot can sing u all the parts separately, and together

ending with the words from...

The Grieved Soul

Come, my soul and let us try

For a little season

Ev’ry burden to lay by,

Come and let us reason.

What is this that casts thee down?

Who are those that grieve thee?

Speak and let the worst be known?

Speaking may relieve thee.

[ialpiriel]

new years resolution as of october: get comfortable enough with leading shapenote stuff that i can lead at the all-day signing next year

[knight--error]

Oh sure, that's fun!

Last Song: Uhhh I think it was "Sweet Prospect" on the Shapenote Album by Doug Fullington (I'm a very peculiar kind of nerd)

Last Book: Last I finished was the first in the Horatio Hornblower series; last I was reading is The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie.

Last Movie: Collateral (2004) (my beloved)

Last Game: Inscryption 🤟 (also my beloved)

Last TV Show: Lost (on s2 currently)

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: ouaaaghah. Sweet but why must I decide.

Relationship: Married

Favorite Color: hrmmm... It evolves. Right now I'd probably say a good burnt orange.

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