Behaves So Strangely, and other music links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• Behaves So Strangely -- “For those of us who have trouble staying in tune when we sing, Deutsch has some exciting news.”
• Comment: It is time to sing again -- “What has happened, in the midst of the tragedy and uncertainty of recent weeks, is a classic case of correlation being mistaken for causation...”
• Imperfect Singers Find Community In Sacred Harp Singing -- “We aren’t trained voices, this is community singing.”
• Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition -- “Sommers’ account demonstrates how associating a community-based music with place creates openings for individuals who fall outside the group previously associated with the music to participate.”
• Our History: His Honor and the Sacred Harp -- “He helped to organize the United Sacred Harp Musical Association in 1904.”
• Singing in choirs and making music with wind instruments ‒ Is that safe during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? -- “The experiments clearly show that air is only set in motion in the immediate vicinity of the mouth when singing.”
• Singing Across the Color Line: Reflections on The Colored Sacred Harp -- “Diverse populations across a wide swath of the southern United States have sung from The Sacred Harp for well over a century.”
• Speedy Beet -- “There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.”
• The Folk Scholarship Roots and Geopolitical Boundaries of Sacred Harp’s Global Twenty-first Century -- “The state of Sacred Harp in 2018 would have been scarcely imaginable to those like folklorist George Pullen Jackson and singer and English scholar Buell Cobb, who questioned in the 1940s and 1970s, respectively, whether the style would survive past the year 2000.”
• The Moravian heritage of community musicking -- “...in this article the authors use the term, ‘musicking’ to describe the musical activity from composing to performing to listening-in-audience to singing.”
• The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) -- “It wasn’t enough to just read music. You would need to sight read...”
• To Avoid Problems With Lyric Slides, Innovative Church Prints Out Songs And Compiles Them Into Book -- “Then it hit me like the chorus of ‘10,000 Reasons’: why not put them on paper, slap them all in a book, and pass them out?”
• 9 Recordings of Christian Harmony Singings -- “Camp Doremi and other recordings”