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Thread #50670 Message #771648
Posted By: GUEST,John Hill
26-Aug-02 - 06:46 AM
Thread Name: Origin: After the Ball (from Frances Black)
Subject: RE: After the ball, Frances Black
Thank you for agreeing with me Murray. I would either vote for incompetance or a couldn't care less attitude that seems to to be prevalent among many "folk" singers these days. In most cases the "singers" have no knowledge of musical notation and make excuses for any deviations by pretending that some fairly recent song has been passed down by oral tradition in some way. I mentioned "The Rose of Allandale" previously because any written music to this song will show it to be in 4/4 time ... yet so many sing it incorrectly in 3/4 time...and with the chorus having the wrong melody.