Last night I thought to myself, “I wonder how long this (the Dean Files) website has been around?” So I looked it up, and it’s fourteen months. That’s pretty neat. I hope you have enjoyed some of my posts over that time, and stick around - as I will keep writing.One of my earliest posts was all about my favorite Shaker song. You can read about it through this link:
Simplicity (4-14-09)
At the time I originally wrote that post, a copy of the song I referenced was not available. Now it is, and so I share it with you here. The song starts about 46 seconds in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Jpsc6MZKg
I was thrilled to find this, and wanted to update the original post some. I thought I would share another song (and broader musical tradition) I find very powerful and interesting: Sacred Harp singing. Very briefly described, Sacred Harp singing is the oldest form of American music and uses shaped notes to assist singers in sight reading. If you would like to know more about it, here is a video, and under that is a link to a wikipedia article.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUfHNEZDPc
(Wikipedia article: Sacred Harp)
So, without further ado, here is another of my favorite songs (I know, it’s kinda old fashioned, and I am not trying to be preachy!) and this one is from the Sacred Harp movement. It’s about 300 years old, and there is something really chilling about the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKzwqV0yOdU
What are some of your favorite (and kinda unusual) songs? I’d like to know!!
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