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Monday, June 27, 2016

Si Bheag Si Mohr -- a tune by Turlough O'Carolan for our jam session at Clayville, Saturday, July __

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Our "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" tune learning session is from 10 a.m. to noon at Clayville Historic Site, State Rte. 12...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Peace Lutheran -- contemporary service, June 25 -- Pentecost VI

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I will follow -- Chris Tomlin -- acoustic version (w/ lyrics) Gathering/Call to Worship: praise band Worship Songs: "I Will Fol...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Zen in the Art of ... Whatever: Quotes

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- ... 398 quotes at https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/175720-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-m...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Illinois, Quad-Cities, WW1 -- misc. links

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Martin J. Engberg, ed. History of the Swedes of Illinois (Chicago: Engberg-Holmberg, 1908) Google Books , pp. 291-94. Contributors: Ernst W...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Contemporary service, Peace Lutheran -- Pentecost V, June 8

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Here is the music for this weekend's service. Gathering/Call to Worship: "Made to Worship" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016

"Over the Waterfall" -- another D Mixolydian fiddle tune for the Clayville-Prairieland Sessions

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At last week's session at Peace Lutheran Church, we took a flying run at "Over the Waterfall." I called the tune because we us...
Monday, June 06, 2016

Saturday's contemporary service -- Peace Lutheran -- Pentecost IV

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Come, Now Is The Time To Worship - Brian Doerksen feat. Wendy Whitehead Gathering Music: Praise Band Worship Songs: "Come, Now ...
Sunday, June 05, 2016

Clayville-Prairieland slow jam Tuesday -- "June Apple," an old fiddle tune transposed to D Mixolydian and a list of the modal key signatures in Irish and southern Appalachian traditional music

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Blast email sent tonight to the Clayville-Prairieland Strings electronic mailing list. Hi everybody -- A reminder -- our "first Tu...
Saturday, June 04, 2016

Misc. notes -- Ellertsen Schade Walther family geneology

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D R A F T Vallø Salt Works At Tønsberg (Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B8nsberg -- on west side of Oslofjord, opposite are...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Biographical resources, William Carleton Summer School, Clogher, Co. Tyrone, 2016 catalog

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"Perspectives." William Carleton Summer School, Clogher July 31st – August 4th 2016 . William Carleton Society, Clogher, Northern ...

Hammered dulcimer in 1830s Ireland -- "Dandy Dulcimer on the High Road to Dublin" -- 2 of 2

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Second of two excerpts from Chapter XIII of William Carleton’s Black Baronet (1857) that give detailed accounts of a strolling hammered dul...

William Carleton describes hammered dulcimer in Ireland of the 1830s -- Dandy Dulcimer: ‘Fond of a Jingle … in my Purse’ -- 1 of 2

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D R A F T First of two excerpts from Chapter XIII of William Carleton’s Black Baronet (1857) that give detailed accounts of a strolling...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Misc. sources on Vachel Lindsay's fiddle player in 1912

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"Music of the 1860's: Patriotic Songs of the Era" Civil War Trust http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/on-the-homefront...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Misc. links -- (1) article on Luther's view of church and state; (2) geneological website on John Armstrong, mentioned in Edgar Lee Masters' "The Sangamon"

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D R A F T Portal on Andrews University Seminary Studies website (if URL for PDF doesn't take you anywhere): http://digitalcommons.an...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Bowing a psalmodikon, Part 2: "Den blomstertid nu kommer"

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Link here to Part 1: "Some videos on how to make, tune and bow a Swedish keyed psalmodikon, also an American psalmodikon by Music Make...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

"Jug of Punch"

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"The Jug Of Punch," Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Altan From a thread at http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=21562 on the indispens...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Key signatures for Dorian, Mixolydian and minor modes in the most common trad Irish fiddle keys

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This chart is from the Small Circle Tune Learning Session's old website. The SCTLS, a slow jam that formerly met in Colorado, had some e...
Monday, May 16, 2016

German chorale melody (?) on a Pennsylvania German folk zither

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D R A F T What may be a Mennonite hymn "Ubermal der Tag Verslossen" played on a Pennsylvania zither to a variant of a melody by ...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Contemporary service -- Pentecost -- Peace Lutheran Church

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Holy and Anointed One+Be lifted high(Praise)+Hunter Thompson+Bethel Church [According to Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth...

Donald Duck discovers Pythagoras, the monochord and the diatonic scale (and you can, too, by watching this 1959 educational video)

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Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4391277 It's all there in the first seven minutes of Donald in Mathmagic Lan...