Thanks to all. Rabbitrunnung, what a list of rounds. GUEST,leeneia, Thanks for you help. Jacob B, I will order a book, thanks.

It is very difficult to explain why a round works and when is it a 2, 3 or 4 part round.

The easiest thing for me to say is if you can write a song that is played with only one cord and the length of each line has the same number of beats you have a candidate for a round. The rounds I will be teaching are:

Music alone shall live
O how lovely is the evening
. Have you seen the ghost of John

And a four part round I wrote:
("Circle of sound" is a song circle group I started in Western North Carolina)



CIRCLE OF SOUND ROUND
By Lloyd Michalsen
Aug. 2000

  1                          2
  D   D   E   F#      F# F# F#   E   D
  Circle of Sound, on a mountain top.
  
  3                       4
  F#    G     A     A  A   G   F#
  sing a round, and never stop.
  
  1                          2
  D   D   E   F#      F# F# F#   E   D
  Circle of sound, with friends so dear.
  
  3                        4
  D    E       F#     A     F#      E       D
  lift your voice, and spread good cheer.