The Turtle Dove - Songs

YouTube video by Emma Kirkby - Topic Book of Songs, Book 3, Time stands still: Time stands still

Emma Kirkby sings this in the following link:

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"...Cupid doth hover up and downe blinded with her faire eyes,
and fortune captive at her feete contem’d and conquerd lies."

"Time stands still with gazing on her face,
stand still and gaze for minutes, houres and yeares, to her give place:
All other things shall change, but shee remaines the same,
till heavens changed have their course & time hath lost his name.

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Dowland - Time Stands Still (1603) John Dowland (c. 1563-1626) wrote the following beautiful lute song, published in 1603.

John Dowland (c.1563-1626) wrote "Time Stands Still," a beautiful lute song, published in 1603.

Number II from The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires, "Printed at London for P.S. for Thomas Adams," 1603.

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Basic Theory of Music (3.) Knowing the names of the notes on the treble and/or bass staves needs to become automatic!

Daily practice of any new skill helps it to become automatic. The mind then is free for additional new things.

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"Through all the world below,
God is seen all around:
Search hills and valleys through.
There he's found.
The growing of the corn,
The lily and the thorn,
The pleasant and forlorn,
All declare God is there,
In the meadows drest in green,
There he's seen."

Through All the World Below - "Captain Kidd" Shape note hymn

This inspiring shape note hymn is from "The Southern Harmony and musical companion : containing a choice collection of tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems" by William Walker, 1835.

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For singers who don't read music but would like to learn. The second in a series of posts on the basic theory of music.

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YouTube video by HarpistAlex The Turtle Dove - Ralph Vaughan-Williams

A beautiful voice and harp recording of "The Turtle Dove" can be found as follows: "We Two Kings perform their own arrangement of The Turtle Dove, Barnaby King (voice), Alexandra King (harp)."

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"No one can listen with indifference to its notes."

The Turtle Dove - folk song collected by Vaughan Williams.

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Basic Theory of Music (1.) Initial orientation

Here are some introductory remarks and exercises for those singers that wish to know more of some basic music theory, but never had the chance before.

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Here is the full page from "The Songs and Hymns of the Scottish Highlands," 1888:

The Branch - Am Meangan Gaelic Hymn

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The first verse (English) is as follows:

From Jesse's root a lovely shoot, a Branch of beauty grew;
And bright was seen its glorious sheen, its graceful form and hue;
Its leaves were fair, its fruit was rare, and sweet it was to view.
Its branches wide on every side refreshed with heaven's dew.

Am Meangan - The Branch

This lovely song or hymn comes from "The Songs and Hymns of the Scottish Highlands" with translations and music. And an introduction by L. Macbean, Machlachlan & Stewart (Edinburgh), 1888.

The Turtle Dove - Songs | Substack The songs we sing. Click to read The Turtle Dove - Songs, a Substack publication.

A new substack site.

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How much the emotional state affects the voice! Perhaps the other way around is also true - how much the way we use the voice affects the emotional state, both our own and others.'

It's nice how Wither also offers a "Mysticall" interpretation of these words about the miraculous passage through the Red Sea.

Here is how Orlando Gibbons well-known "Song I," present in many modern hymn books, originally appeared (with images whitened and slightly cleaned up).

In "The hymnes and songs of the Church. Diuided into two parts," London, Printed [by John Bill] for G[eorge] W[ither], 1623, from pages 1 and 2.

The more I practise remembering music & words, the more possible it is to remember & learn faster.

One thing hooks on to another.

This is so at any age. And doesn't music help us in all this?

I make new pathways in the brain, which echo in the body, producing vibrations of well-being and health.

Isn't it so that a song becomes so much more alive to us and our listeners when we sing it by heart, rather than noses buried in a score?

But how to sharpen the tool of memory?

Or is it more about ATTUNING our memory?

One thing is clear - memory leads to memory!

"Piglet told himself that never in all his life, and he was goodness knows HOW old — three, was it, or four? — never had he seen so much rain."
~ A.A. Milne

Beautiful sound - thank you.

Northern Saw-whet owl

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Very cheerful music, thank you.

And I love the bare feet!

#SuperbOwl A beautiful short eared owl. 🦉

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Here is a beautiful rendering of Thus angels sung · Jeffrey Skidmore · Ex Cathedra

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Song 34 (Angels Song) by Orlando Gibbons in George Wither's "The hymnes and songs of the Church," PRINTED FOR THE SPENSER SOCIETY, 1881. (Original 1623)