Saturday, December 19, 2009

What we are learning

Saturday, 20 December 2009

Our annual sale just completed. The valuable part about having sale like this is that we get to see the realities. We can observe in a concentrated time which of our publications are useful and which are vain expressions of fitful fantasy.

We are facing a new year now. We still need easy pieces which are beautiful. By easy, I mean, start with unison. Add a harmony line as a change of pace, and divide to four voices, possibly, just at cadences. Texts must be expressed in the first person, i.e. like "I Need Thee Every Hour", "Abide with Me", "Because I Have Been Given Much". These hymn texts are not classic by accident.