The Weekly Walkabout

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 05:45 AM

Re: my post Date: 06 Jul 08 - 03:20 PM, I'm surprised, frankly, Stu - quality aside, I think there's quite a difference in timbre between my folk and hymn singing. But, as for quality, I'll keep your remarks on intonation in mind.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 09:28 AM

"think there's quite a difference in timbre between my folk and hymn singing"

Sadly, you miss the whole point again - the 'timbre' of the voice is irrelevant and important ... unless it just reveals an untrained voice badly used.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 09:56 AM

We can all sound more earthy or sweet if we wish to, Foolestroupe, and that's what I understand to be changes in timbre - which I do when I go from folk songs to hymns (here's the link, again).

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 10:53 AM

You can also sound like a wheezing and spluttering octogenarian from the parish workhouse if you like to.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 11:09 AM

I guess he likes to....................

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 04:34 PM

You don't have to take singing lessons, WAV (but it would certainly help!). Just get a good book on singing, vocal techique and such, and learn the meanings of some of the terms you insist on using.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Lord Batman's Kitchener
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 04:40 PM

Instead merely quoting them, as if you know what you're talking about (which you don't)

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 05:22 PM

Here's "timbre" in more detail (but NOT at odds with my above understanding) from Wiki..
And are you, Don and Lord, not just trying to lord it over someone, in this case..?

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: s&r
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 06:17 PM

I once worked with a guy with almotst non-existent colour vision. He refused to accept that his vision was in any way lacking becauase he saw what he'd always seen.
Perhaps there is such a thing as inborn tone deafness, where you normally hear a different sound to the rest of us.

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Lord Batman's Kitchener
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 06:24 PM

First off Wikipedia is not a reliable source, the accuracy of many of the entries has been called into question, on more than one occasion.

Second off, accusing Don and I of 'lording' it over YOU would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetically hypocritcal on your part, what with your I have this degree and that certificate, I have this website and that myspace space, and your self important attitude, you need to do some self examination before you accuse others!

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 07:57 PM

WAV - Wiki says

"Timbre has been called "a wastebasket category""

which is also where many of your 'eclectic' "Folk Music" concepts unfortunately belong.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 08:03 PM

"We can all sound more earthy or sweet if we wish to"

But it's kinda funny how those Operatic Singers with their decades of voice training tend to all sound clear, distinct, and of a similar level of clarity with a total lack of buzziness, off-keyness, etc...

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 05:25 AM

For what it's worth, FT, I've enjoyed some opera singing (if not as much as some, in-key/on-song, folk singing), to the point of being moved to song by it! There's a note, above, from a mod. saying I'm only allowed to post one piece/per week here, so here's a link to #130 - "Entree".

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 10:21 AM

I'm pretty sure that you can post your poems in the context of conversation now. As long as you don't start many threads you were violating no rules. the "one a week rule" looked like another "penile" prank to me. Hopefully the prankster has found someone else to tease.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 05:58 PM

...Poem cum (very brief) song 130 of 230: ENTRÉE/AT BOLTON'S ALBERT HALL: OPERA SONG - WINTER 2000/1

From novel, and play,
To opera,
La Traviata
Was my entrée...

To a media
I find is a
Fine way to relay
Human drama.

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 10:30 AM

Medium

Stu

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 11:01 AM

THE WEEKLY WALKABOUT, E.G.
(Tad early this week, as I'll be at the Rothbury Traditional Music Festival tomorrow.)

Poem 16 of 230: A BEAUTIFUL STAGE

If a couple, with plans to wed,
    Asked me, off the top of my head,
For somewhere I thought well in tune
    As a place for a honeymoon,
It would have - flashing back - to be
    Beautifully-honed Italy.

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 05:34 PM

Enjoyed my day at Rothbury, by the way - it was a tad damp, but most of the events (comp's and sessions) were indoors, anyway; and, more importantly, on the bus home, I over-heard some first-timers say how much they'd enjoyed their day.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 07:39 PM

Walking about in a weekly fashion
I nibble on my spartan rations
A bit of watercress on rye
Suffices well for such as I

And in the distance there I see
An owl has perched upon a tree
To take his rest beneath the sun
Now that his nightly work is done

Perchance I'll amble down to Kent
And find a pleasant spot to rent
At which I can on foolscap fashion
New routes for my weekly walking passion

Tis well I have these pleasant hours
To wander here amongst the bowers
With not a care, I have no worry
And that is why I never hurry

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 07:16 AM

Out yesterday, home today - just enjoyed your poem, thanks, LH.

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 06:57 AM

THE WEEKLY WALKABOUT, E.G.
The Open is on at Birkdale, hence...

Poem 221 of 230: MAJORS

If golf taps the world for its players
    (And few would deny that so),
Why, then, are three of four majors
    A United States Tour show?

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 02:39 PM

A tad early this week as I'm out tomorrow at the Durham Folk Party -
THE WEEKLY WALKABOUT, E.G...

Poem 48 of 230: THE PROMS

We walked through Kensington Gardens,
    Then made a left for Albert Hall.
Promenaders were in their tens,
    While others had found their stall,
As we took our pre-booked seats.
    The seats were of restricted view -
Three-quarters of the orchestra.
    But the music sure bettered par:
The beautiful sounds of Mozart;
    The daring drama of Ravel.
And we liked it - me and a belle.

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 03:00 PM

I do not care for rhythm much,
Or scansion, depth, or human touch,
And beauty is not much my suite,
I'd rather write about my feet.

My feet go forth, across the hills,
Through valleys, mountains, streams and rills,
And up and down each village street;
My being hinges on these feet.

I wrap them up in socks of cotton
And change them when the smell turns rotten;
Oh, keep true love, and spring's sweet breeze
And let me have feet such as these!

These feet are firm, and stout, and strong,
One third as wide as they are long,
And unlike dreams of love and palaces,
My feet are real, and lined with callouses.

Oh, keep the love that makes hearts quail,
Give my yellowed, ragged nails!
And no perfume want I as sweet
As that which rises from these feet!

And while yon poets Truth are stalking,
My shoes and feet will stick with walking,
On ordinary path and street,
No heart need I, for I have feet!

Archflat Peduncle,
Songs for Tired Feet5
Little Leathery Booklets, Fowkus-on-Toeses, 1987