MUSIC?

[Michael Wyatt]

What a lovely thing.  I finally had a chance to write it out.  THanks for
sending it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu]On
Behalf Of Jessica Hopkins
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:45 AM
To: GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu
Subject: Fwd: Re:MUSIC?


Hi all you singers, I meant to share this with all
y'all. Jessica

> Hi Michael,
>
> I don't know of any sources for your questions re
> Music. However, I'm willing to try to share a song
> that a friend of mine has written for me for my
> pilgrimage on the Camino.
>
> It is short, a round really, I'll have to do one
> part
> aloud, the other in my head! - better yet, I'll
> share
> it with anyone I run into that wants to learn it.
>
> This was written by Kate Munger, founder of the
> Threshold Choirs (4 that I know of in the SF Bay
> Area), that sing to the dying.
>
> Since I have no idea how to scan this and attach it
> to
> the e-mail (and I can barely read music), I'm going
> to
> deconstruct the song, and let you (all of you)
> reconstruct it, if you're interested.
>
> The format is that I will state the note before the
> word or syllable that it goes over:
>
> The words are: Daily, step by step, with every
> breath,
> I draw closer to love.
>
> Broken down to: Dai - ly, step by step, with ev' ry
> breath, I draw clos - er to love.
>
> Treble clef, the B line is flat, 4/4 time.
>
> qtr note, middle C: Dai
> qtr note, F: ly
> qtr note, G: step
> 2 connected 1/8th notes, A - Bflat: by
> (end of measure)
>
> qtr note (then hold it just an eighth longer, I
> don't
> know what this is called), C: step
> 1/8th note, high F: with
> qtr note, E: ev
> qtr note, C: ry
> (end of measure)
>
> half note, Bflat: breath
> qtr note, G: I
> qtr note, F: draw
> (end of measure)
>
> qtr note, G: clos
> half note, Bflat: er
> qtr note, A: to
> (end of measure)
>
> whole note, C: love
> (repeat)
>
> When singing the round, the second part comes in on
> the C (second "step"), at the beginning of the
> second
> measure.
>
> This may be a silly exercise, but I wanted to share
> this lovely song.
>
> Love, Jess
>


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