#shapenote

[incendavery]

it is an ✨️Experience✨️

[tolkiensacredharp]

Poem: To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying

Tune: Walkley

Composer: Neely Bruce

Happy Easter (nearly) to all who celebrate it! Once again we’re breaking from tradition by breaking into Northern Harmony. I thought this tune and this poem would be particularly appropriate to the season: the original words to this tune deal with Jesus’ resurrection, and the motif of sea-journeys in Tolkien’s work has a lot to do with death and resurrection, taking inspiration from sources such as the Voyage of St Brendan and the Old English poem The Seafarer. 

The words come from Legolas’ poem of sea-longing, in which he announces he will cross the sea and travel to Valinor - as he of course eventually did (but not without Gimli!). Metrically this poem is an absolute mess, so I have had to really play fast and loose with the syllables to get regular 11-syllable lines out of it, but I’m really happy with the result. Lyrics, heavily amended, are under the cut.

To Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,

The wind is blowing, and the white foam flying.

West now, west away, the round sun is falling.

Grey ship, O grey ship, do you hear them calling,

Voices of my people now gone before me?

I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;

For our days are ending and our years failing.

I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.

Long, long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,

Sweet are the voices on the Lost Isle calling,

In Elvenhome that no man can discover,

Where leaves fall not: land of my people ever!

[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!

[erisis]

I am so glad this morning to still have some of this incredibly wholesome content from the Western Mass Sacred Harp Convention to share with you all! Post 24 of 25 #wmshc2023 #wmshc #sacredharp #shapenote #shapenotesinging #sacredharpsinging #sacredharpconvention #tradsong #westernmass #westernmassachusetts #northampton #joy #singers #community #communitysinging #singing (at Northampton, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqXtmmWuOQZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jonphaedrus]

hi omg do you do sacred harp?? its been a dream of mine to attend a singing

i do! i'm a part of the chicago class and although i don't normally go to weekly singings as much as id like to (especially given covid) if you're likely to be in the midwest i usually help run the welcome table and sing front bench tenor at the chicago class anniversary singing in january/midwest convention in may!

if you have the resources (and your local class is maintaining actual safety protocols; ours has been a bit of a mixed bag) you should absolutely go! you're welcome to just show up for your local statewide convention, no preparation required—there are always loaners and back bench tenor always needs people

[imaginariumgeographica]

Im stuck on a call so i can give a short little presentation (im at the end) and ive just decided to listen to music on my phone because people keep mentioning songs and im like 'i will explode if i cannot listen to this song rn'

[iphis24]

Text from Watts (Isaac). Music from The Sacred Harp rev. 1991 (red book), Idumea 47b. Three lines on tenor, one on treble, one on alto down the octave (higher choice notes).

And must this body die? This well-wrought frame decay? And must these active Limbs of mine Lie mould'ring in the clay? Corruption, Earth and Worms Shall but refine this flesh, Till my triumphant Spirit comes To put it on afresh.

[insatiablebloodlove]

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

[seaglassandeelgrass]

Assorted un-polished playlists that I have no intentions of publishing officially (they're not quite so coherently Thematic as my public playlists) but still, others might enjoy for casual listening [under the cut and subject to change] Quality varies widely; I've *starred the ones I like better

*Shipwreck Ballads [like the tin says; 228 and counting]

Wassail, Wassail [entirely uncurated collection of Every Wassailing Song I Could Find]

*Aviary [birbs, with varying literalness]

*Verse & Tune [poems set to music but less in the 'Robbie Burns Canonised Folksong' manner and more the 'Phil Ochs Does Noyes' Highwayman' manner]

*Sharpe's Soundtrack [(almost) every song sung by John Tams (and others) in the series, WIP]

due South Songs [ditto above, (almost) every song, WIP]

*Child Ballad Reditions That SLAP [what it says on the tin; in my purely subjective opinion]

*Waltztime [waltztime fiddle-tunes and contra songs]

*Space Songs [filk, filk-adjacent folk, and songs recorded in space]

Elfanland [folk about the Fair Folk]

Maritime Hymns [look sometimes you want to listen to shapenote singing and bluegrass gospel steeped in Nautical Metaphor]

Raise Hell [drive-fast, bared-teeth, shit-kickin-boots angry rock]

*Whiskey & Woes [metaphorically crying on a divebar barstool]

Did You Hear? [odes to dearly departed folksingers]

Here's To Old New England [to either induce or combat homesickness, ymmv]

Isn't She A... [women as forces of nature and geographic features as women]

50 Nifty [songs with states in the title]

Faerie Tales [musical interpretations of bros. Grimm and others]

Bash the Fash [self-explanatory]

Ghosting [ghosts.]

Civil War [contemporary folk and singer-songwriter about the ACW]

[incendavery]

one thing at a time

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[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.

[thebobby1432world]

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[erisis]

We had the “Social” at our house after the singing yesterday! Apparently, the “Social” is generally a traditional part of these multi-day Sacred Harp Conventions, a way to show hospitality to all the visiting singers; and we opted to host the one for the Western Mass Sacred Harp Convention at our big, queer house!! And let me tell you, this one turned into a proper, old school Northampton House Party!!!! With both floors filled with folks having a fine, fun time! Most, I opted to keep my phone well away, and just let events unfold unobserved by any not present. To just be in the glorious moment! So these are just a couple of random shots I took of the singing that broke out upstairs! One of TWO separate singings from different Shape Note books that were going on in adjacent rooms!! (We have good, thick walls!) I love our home!! And I love this community!!!! So much fun! So much LIFE!!!! #sacredharp #shapenote #wmshc #singing #shapenotesinging #sacredharpsinging #westernmass #westernmasssacredharpconvention #social #queer #transwoman #community #tradition #joy #wmshc2023 (at Northampton, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cptf35LMpwF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jonphaedrus]

i guess if you're interested put a character in my inbox and i'll give you a shapenote song tomorrow when i get up. probably gonna mostly be from the last denson revision but you've got a small possibility for missouri or shenandoah harmony.