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Thread #58018   Message #919062
Posted By: Marion
26-Mar-03 - 05:25 PM
Thread Name: What's being sung at the peace marches?
Subject: RE: What's being sung at the peace marches?
Very interesting - answers range from a long list of songs to "nothing much being sung here." I like the new words to Soon and Very Soon.

I'm a little surprised at some of the songs mentioned (Dona Nobis Pacem, God on Our Side, Finlandia). While these are good songs in other contexts, I'd suspect that they wouldn't be ideal for teaching to a group of non-musicheads on a march. You need something short, simple, straightforward, with an easily sung melody; Finlandia's kind of subtle, God on Our Side is really long and doesn't have a catchy melody, and Dona Nobis Pacem is a 3-part canon in Latin! Are they really being sung much?

Marion