I'm sorry Oleo...pain *begins* when one hears the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy" up until that point, it's all cakeoleorezinator wrote:I feel your pain.pancelticpiper wrote:Yes I've played that modern Christian-praise-pop version with the added bridge, called Amazing Grace, My Chains Are Gone. (It's a bridge, not a variation, BTW.) The first time I heard it I threw up a little in my throat but now it's grown on me a bit.
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Amazing Grace, long version?
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oleorezinator wrote:Ethics?ausdag wrote:Regardless of what you think of the ethics of reworking an out-of-copyright traditional song, so far it's the only suggestion that actaully addresses the OP's question, viz what did the customer mean by 'the longer version of Amazing grace'.
"steal" / "Not Steal" = 'ethics'oleorezinator wrote: What a fabulous idea, steal a traditional piece
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Then there was the time a drunk lady zigzagged up to the stage and asked if we knew Danny Boy, and before we could even lie that we didn't, to help us along she started singing its opening lines to the tune of O Holy Night while swinging her drink. She got stuck after "calling", scratched her head, and zigzagged her way back into the crowd. And it wasn't even Saint Paddy's.CHasR wrote:...pain *begins* when one hears the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy"
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Nano, I just LOVE showbiz . Usually.
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IIRC, that was the same lady who was tired of hearing just tunes and wanted a song or two. You know the type. In reference to the tunes she said, "That Irish hip-hop is all well and good, but...".
True story.
I never even knew there was a "long version" of Amazing Grace until this thread.
True story.
I never even knew there was a "long version" of Amazing Grace until this thread.
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It's not longer. It just feels longer.Nanohedron wrote:I never even knew there was a "long version" of Amazing Grace until this thread.
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I once played at an awards banquet for a localNanohedron wrote:IIRC, that was the same lady who was tired of hearing just tunes and wanted a song or two. You know the type. In reference to the tunes she said, "That Irish hip-hop is all well and good, but...".True story.
social service agency with a tenor banjo player
and a bodhran player during the cocktail hour and dinner.
The bodhran player goes to the bar for a drink and overhears
a conversation that went like this: "What kind of music are they playing?"
The answer: "I think it's Greek Music." Maybe it was.
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Love is not music. Music is the best.
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gee, ya dont say!Nanohedron wrote:True story. .
Nanohedron wrote: In reference to the tunes she said, "That Irish hip-hop is all well and good, but...
darn! this gig's story just gets better + better!
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Yeah, say what you will about the headaches; you wind up with some good stories about stuff you couldn't make up, that's for sure.
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Believe it or not, there is a critter akin to that out there; I've met it (and blocked the details from memory). But basically, it was "Amazing Grace" on the pipes as the intro, then the orchestra came in with an instrumental of "Danny Boy" in D, and over that there was a recitation about the Rockefeller (or someone wealthy) kids drowning in the Titanic disaster.* Then the choir dove in and sang something else entirely different but even bigger. ~ The End. ~CHasR wrote:...pain *begins* when one hears the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy"
* Somewhere, somehow, faith came into it but it felt like the story was forced into someone's purpose and seemed like a sketchy argument to me.
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Gawd. Just imagining it, I can feel my arteries hardening.
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OMG it sounds like something out of an Andre Rieu concert!Cathy Wilde wrote: "Amazing Grace" on the pipes as the intro, then the orchestra came in with an instrumental of "Danny Boy" in D, and over that there was a recitation about the Rockefeller (or someone wealthy) kids drowning in the Titanic disaster. Then the choir dove in and sang something else entirely different but even bigger. ~ The End. ~
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Though of course there's nothing unusual about singing a hymn to various melodies- it's how traditional hymnody works.CHasR wrote: the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy"
There is no tune "Amazing Grace", it being a hymn, a hymn being words only, and utterly tuneless. It's usually sung to the tune NEW BRITAIN but just as appropriately to any tune with the same meter. (It's why hymnals have a Metrical Index in the back, so that after the hymn is chosen, you can look over various tunes which might be used.)
At the White House immediately following 9-11 a military choir sung Amazing Grace to a tune other than NEW BRITAIN (I can't remember which tune). It was beautiful.
And this, hands down, is the nicest version of Amazing Grace I've ever heard. I don't know the tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmFKZmcGAW0
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Please check you PMs.pancelticpiper wrote:Though of course there's nothing unusual about singing a hymn to various melodies- it's how traditional hymnody works.CHasR wrote: the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy"
There is no tune "Amazing Grace", it being a hymn, a hymn being words only, and utterly tuneless. It's usually sung to the tune NEW BRITAIN but just as appropriately to any tune with the same meter. (It's why hymnals have a Metrical Index in the back, so that after the hymn is chosen, you can look over various tunes which might be used.)
At the White House immediately following 9-11 a military choir sung Amazing Grace to a tune other than NEW BRITAIN (I can't remember which tune). It was beautiful.
And this, hands down, is the nicest version of Amazing Grace I've ever heard. I don't know the tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmFKZmcGAW0