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Let’s stay with songwriting a bit longer: this time, choral music. David Bruce Murray has a fascinating find up over at musicscribe: the final bars of an otherwise nondescript new choral piece that … well, I’ll let DBM explain:
The last page of the piece is written in the key of C, but there’s only one […]

Over at southerngospelblog, Daniel Mount has been talking bridges, those now omnipresent transitional passages near the end of songs that precede the big finish. Mount provides a very brief history of the bridge, and then concludes:
Many bridges follow a simple formula. You take a lyric the length of a full or half verse, set the […]

Unless you consider yourself a pretty die-hard Touched By An Angel fan, you can safely stop reading. If you are or were - or know someone who is/was - and also know of an available copy of the Shallow Water episodes from season 7 (a two-parter with a mock Gaither Homecoming storyline), drop me an […]

But strategically placing the name of some of the most searched-for terms, phrases, names, or issues in headlines is one way for sites to drive traffic their way. And it’s not just headlines. Increasingly the internet’s most successful sites are tailoring content to fit search engine results. Via Andrew Sullivan, an NYT Magazine story about […]

It’s  neither a slip nor pink, as Dan Keeton, very lately of one of the gazillion Blackwood groups, says he discovered along with the rest of us today:
An Open Letter from Dan Keeton,
I should have known something was up when Mr. Blackwood didn’t make my direct deposit last week. This morning, he never spoke one […]

I’ve got some writing deadlines in the real world that will continue to compete with my time online, but here is some stuff that’s been afoot lately in my quasi-absence this week.

David Bruce Murray is now polling for the most popular song of the 1970s and 1980s, respectively. Taking a poll sure beats working on […]

Color me late to the party, but I just noticed that Chris White, a prominent record label executive in sg, has a blog about politics, of all things, and lately, foreign policy in particular, sort of. Okay then. It’s mostly pre-millennialist political boilerplate about Israel, but it also serves as an unfortunate reminder of what […]

Songwriter Joel Lindsey on his standard disclaimer to aspiring songwriters before he teaches at writing workshops:
For the sake of learning, we’re going to leave God out of the songwriting equation today — because if someone says “God gave me this song” who am I to argue??  I’m NOT going to tell God he doesn’t know […]