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“The Sheep under the Snow” #Music
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“The Sheep under the Snow” is a Manx folk song called “Ny Kirree fo Niaghtey.” Please don’t ask me how to pronounce that! It’s a haunting melody I heard for the first time a few days ago. Do yourself a favor and avoid the lyrics, because they are so sad… Needless to say, I’m not posting them here.
I hope you enjoy this folk song on zither!
“Minuet in G” by J.S. Bach #Music
This piece by Johann Sebastian Bach needs no introduction. There are other sections that are not as well known, but this segment is the most popular. It was one of the first of many simplified Bach pieces I learned as an early piano student. I still enjoy playing it, more than 26 years later.
I hope you enjoy this arrangement played first as a duet on alto recorder, then on lyre, next on zither, and ending with the recorder duet!
From Word Matters a Blog by @Ernest Dempsey Does Working With Someone Who Believes In No Higher Power Affect Your Work? #Author’sCorner
Not long ago, after reading something concerning an atheist’s belief or lack there-of and then shortly after having had a conversation with someone …
From Word Matters a Blog by @Ernest Dempsey Does Working With Someone Who Believes In No Higher Power Affect Your Work? #Author’sCorner
Lunchtime Music Livestream #Event
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve gotten my first music performance gig since COVID19 started last year, and you’re invited. This coming Wednesday, …
Lunchtime Music Livestream #Event
The World Today in the form of a letter
A SCREWTAPE LETTER BY C. S. LEWIS If you haven’t heard of these letters; you will do yourself a favor and learn something today! This particular …
The World Today in the form of a letter
Fiction is like a spider’s web.
” Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”~ Virginia Woolf Text and image …
Fiction is like a spider’s web.
…now is as good a time as any.
“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There…
…now is as good a time as any.
“Hyfrydol” (Alleluia, Sing to Jesus) #Music
I would have waited to post this hymn closer to Easter, if I had realized before recording it that it’s an Easter hymn. However, it’s also an Advent hymn, which I knew, entitled “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus.” In either case, the tune is a traditional Welsh melody called “Hyfrydol.”
Today you can clearly hear the difference between Oriole (soprano) and alto recorder. I play the melody as a solo on each of these instruments, then on viola, and end with zither.
Please feel free to share in the comments whether you prefer one recorder over the other! I prefer the warmer sound of the alto myself, but the Oriole is easier to play, with a shorter finger stretch. They’re also in different keys, with the Oriole in C and the alto in F.
I hope you enjoy this arrangement!
With a simple breath you can release stress…
With a simple breath you can release stress and replace it with what you need. Turn anxiety into peace, anger into joy, tension into love, fear into …
With a simple breath you can release stress…
Mystical Strings 
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