Surviver- Songs in the Next Mellenium

Subject: Surviver- Songs in the Next Mellenium
From: _gargoyle
Date: 21 Nov 99 - 10:00 PM

What songs will be sung 1000 years from now.

Perhaps, one out of 100,000 actual songs contain the quality of verse/tune to endure through centuries, those that connect to the soul of the performer/listener:

Will "Barbara Alan/Ellen"? (perhaps)
Will "Greensleeves"? (probably)
Will Campbell's "Country Roads" (never)

As a variation on a theme, a challenge to the "musicologists" tapping in to the MC, what songs from 1,000 years ago, or before, are STILL being sung, in the Western World?

Subject: RE: Surviver- Songs in the Next Mellenium
From: sophocleese
Date: 21 Nov 99 - 10:08 PM

Happ y Birthday to you? How long will that one continue do you think?

Subject: RE: Surviver- Songs in the Next Mellenium
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Nov 99 - 05:19 AM

Happy birthday is actually still under copyright, but it's a bugger to collect all the fees.... Besides, eveytime you insert person's name, you change it slightly so you can get away with it..... I daresay it will still be sung in 1000 years, assuming we haven't blown the planet up, or decided that birthdays are ageist, and discriminatory against those cultures who don't celebrate the anniversary of the day they were born....

I'd like to think we'll still be singing Old Lang Syne, but as I personally haven't sung it myself for 14 years, suspect that it could be dying out.

LTS

Subject: RE: Surviver- Songs in the Next Mellenium
From: Bert
Date: 22 Nov 99 - 11:04 AM

Coming 'round the Mountain

Subject: RE: Surviver- Songs in the Next Mellenium
From: Midchuck
Date: 22 Nov 99 - 11:20 AM

Keep in mind that in 1000 A. D., there was no English language that anyone alive (except some cloistered scholars) could follow, so no song that is sung today (in English) could have existed in it's present form. English came into existance following the Norman conquest of England, which was still 66 years in the future at the time.

I saw a quote somewhere, and I've lost the source and exact text, but it was something like:

"The English language is the result of Norman men-at-arms trying to make time with Saxon barmaids, and is just as illegitimate as any of the other results of that activity."

Question: will anyone alive in 2999 speak English that a person alive in 1999 could make any sense of? Unlikely. Unless, in the words of Pogo, "...Our noble scientists invent a live-forever serum so I can work and work and work...."