Where the Soul Of a Man Never Dies

[davismanLV]

This is just quiet and lovely.... <3 <3

 

[fronobulax]

Interesting. Gospel. Early 20th Century. If you've ever sung the arrangements from Southern Harmony you know where the vocals some from, or at least a major influence. Thank you.

 

[davismanLV]

Interesting. Gospel. Early 20th Century. If you've ever sung the arrangements from Southern Harmony you know where the vocals some from, or at least a major influence. Thank you.

Frono.... I was a choir boy in JC and then went into the Renaissance Singers.... a really elite group from the college. Apparently I could sing and I still do. Whether I should or not is for someone else to decide!! But hooo boy the 3 years in JC (don't judge, a horse fell on me and I broke my knee, okay?) so i could still sing with a cast on my leg. I love traditional stuff and I'm not sure if I know what you're talking about or what? So.... interesting? Gaudete??

 

[JohnW63]

Tom,

I could sing well in elementary. My teacher gave me an application to the California Boys Choir. I could sing soprano with the girls easily. Once my voice cracked and changed in H.S. I didn't sing as much, but still enjoyed it. I couldn't hit the top end of Jon Anderson stuff, but I could still cover a range. Now, too many vocal chord laser treatments and my range is way down. Enjoy your voice while it still works, I say!

I need to learn to play the melody rather than sing it, I guess.

 

[fronobulax]

Frono.... I was a choir boy in JC and then went into the Renaissance Singers.... a really elite group from the college. Apparently I could sing and I still do. Whether I should or not is for someone else to decide!! But hooo boy the 3 years in JC (don't judge, a horse fell on me and I broke my knee, okay?) so i could still sing with a cast on my leg. I love traditional stuff and I'm not sure if I know what you're talking about or what? So.... interesting? Gaudete??

Maybe I should have turned off the computer and then finished the martini.

The tune is considered American Gospel and the composer was alive at the turn of the last century so I was just trying to place some context. That interested me because my guess was that it was older than that.

The Southern Harmony is a collection of hymns assembled in the US circa 1850. As I do Google Searches to bolster my memory I realized I probably conflated Southern Harmony with the Sacred Harp, another collection of "American" hymns. The Sacred Harp was assembled to teach people how to read music using "shape notes". Shape note singing is a whole 'nother rabbit hole but it is distinctive in the harmonies where the top part can sound unpleasant and piercing. An acquired taste, as it were. So the only point to the rest of the post was that the arranger of the performance in the video was almost certainly influences by "shape not" harmonies and performances.

It was a nice dry martini.

 

[geoguy]

Very nice, although I wish her mandocello was a bit louder in the mix.

 

[dreadnut]

Skaggs & Rice

 

[walrus]

This is just quiet and lovely.... <3 <3

They are definitely channeling Gillian Welch and David Rawlings!

walrus