Raised sixths, and other music links

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• A Songwriting Rant -- "But...It is also true that many modern songs are scatty, cloying, fluffy, incoherent, repetitive, flighty, bumbling, empty, careless, shallow, heretical, repetitive, nauseating, anaemic or repetitive."
• Columbia's Shape-Note Singers carry on an American tradition for the love of music -- "When the Columbia Shape-Note Singers get together, no one knows exactly what they will sing."
• Dinner on the Grounds -- Even a recipe for "Persimmon Pudding"
• Is Jesus My Boyfriend? -- "Something is wrong when I can sing a worship song to God and then turn to my wife with the same lyrics."
• Raised sixths, and postmodern rootlessness -- "Lebanon by William Billings...if you try to raise the sixth...at one point you get part of a diminished chord."
• Sacred Harp Singing as Preserved Intangible Cultural Heritage -- "Some traditional arts have already become consumable objects, and proprietorship is under dispute."
• Singing News Fan Awards, 2015 -- "...Favorite Traditional Quartet is...Triumphant Quartet."
• Stuart Sutcliffe, the other Beatle -- "Sutcliffe’s face can still be seen on the far left side of the album cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band."