I'd absorb 4-part oratorio with piano, and then once it was locked in, it would start to morph... all the baroque stuff I'd learned would mix toe=gether and for a frew days if I sang one run (you know, those 32nd note thjingies), it would edge over into one from another piece and then just take off for space.... now I know this will occur with anything I learn and I use it to pull arrangements out of "thin air." Now I just need a program that will record what I hear, by osmosis.

There's one from the other day.... Jim & Vivian Craig were singing something on a tape Art sent me from the late 70's that had this line: I only wanna stand on the banks of the river....." and my mind added from the Dutchman, because even the melody lines up to this point were similar, "where the walls rise above the Zuyder Zee...."

Now today I have gone "down in the river to pray, studying about the good old way/talk about suffering here below...."

It's kinda like a musical thread name game. Go play THAT game sometime! (I want credit if that becomes a thread!!)

"Whispering Hope" also came out of another hymn, Saturday, that is actually very different from it except where they share a certain phrase melodically, "Do you know my Jesus?"

Oughtta have our heads examined, I guess.

~S~