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To: NYer

I can't recall the Maronite priest's name, but he did much as your priest did in putting the traditional melodies to English and working with his organist. But he had a musician put Western notation with the English words to help those who didn't know the melodies. It is more of an aid than anything, because Western notation cannot capture the way these melodies move -- but it can help to jog the memory of an old Irish nomad's brain...;-)


42 posted on 08/05/2005 5:20:38 PM PDT by Siobhan ("Whenever you come to save Rome, make all the noise you want." -- Pius XII)
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To: Siobhan
I can't recall the Maronite priest's name, but he did much as your priest did in putting the traditional melodies to English and working with his organist.

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48 posted on 08/05/2005 5:35:55 PM PDT by NYer ("Each person is meant to exist. Each person is God's own idea." - Pope Benedict XVI)
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