Re: [MMM] no lyrics?

Stephen asked,

> Is it true that few microtonal compositions
> have lyrics?

Good question!

It's hard enough to find anyone willing to sing "new music" even if it's
not microtonal. Adding microtonality just makes it harder to find a singer.
Generally, I don't bother any more.

Well, it's also true that output of instrumental versus vocal music
depends on the composer. Perhaps there are just more microtonal composers
attracted to non-vocal music.

;-)

Rick

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Rick McGowan <rick@...> wrote:
>
Rick

When I play in 12 or 24 I don't even think about lyrics.
Too busy playing.

Does anyone even write lyrics down for a given microtonal
song? I guess if we can't sing or find a singer there is
no point.

Then again, what is the point of the Star Spangled Banner
if words were never put to it? Maybe I should say changed.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep13.html

Key's experience during the bombardment of Fort McHenry inspired him
to pen the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner." He adapted his
lyrics to the tune of a popular drinking song, "To Anacreon in
Heaven," and the song soon became the de facto national anthem of
the United States of America, though Congress did not officially
recognize it as such until 1931.

The Star-Spangled Banner
—Francis Scott Key, 1814

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

By the way, our anthem doesn't end in a question. Just
the first verse does.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

-Stephen

> Stephen asked,
>
> > Is it true that few microtonal compositions
> > have lyrics?
>
> Good question!
>
> It's hard enough to find anyone willing to sing "new music" even
if it's
> not microtonal...