This isn't high on the list of important things I have to do at the moment, but Jon challenged me and it looks like fun, so I'll see if I can come up with something reasonably quickly.
Total size of music files in my computer
About 500 songs, I have no idea how many hours, about 2.1 GB.
This is slightly misleading, as most of the music I listen to is not on my computer. What I've counted includes a number of recordings, compositions, and transcriptions of music featuring family and friends.
Last record bought
Prayer for Peace (Orlando Deanery Boychoir and Girls' Choirs), title song by Robert Kerr
Song that I am listening to now
Silence. No, not Simon & Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence, but the real thing, or what passes for it in this busy world. Sometimes silence is my favorite song, especially when I'm trying to concentrate.
Five songs that I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me
Impossible to choose! But here is a representative sample:
Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony)
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say/Star of the County Down (The link will take you to Horatius Bonar's words, but you'll have to click on the "Kingsfold" MIDI link to hear the right tune.)
St. Patrick's Breastplate (Irish tunes "St. Patrick" and "Deirdre" with Cecil Frances Alexander's translation of an ancient Gaelic poem attributed to St. Patrick. The link doesn't have the complete music, but will give you an idea.)
Kilkelly (Green Fields of America)
Non Nobis, Domine (unpublished arrangement by Linda Clary of Patrick Doyle's version from Kenneth Branagh's production of Shakespeare's Henry V)
5 persons to whom I am passing the baton
I'm not going to name names, but hope some people will add their own information in comments.
Total size of music files in my computer
About 500 songs, I have no idea how many hours, about 2.1 GB.
This is slightly misleading, as most of the music I listen to is not on my computer. What I've counted includes a number of recordings, compositions, and transcriptions of music featuring family and friends.
Last record bought
Prayer for Peace (Orlando Deanery Boychoir and Girls' Choirs), title song by Robert Kerr
Song that I am listening to now
Silence. No, not Simon & Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence, but the real thing, or what passes for it in this busy world. Sometimes silence is my favorite song, especially when I'm trying to concentrate.
Five songs that I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me
Impossible to choose! But here is a representative sample:
Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony)
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say/Star of the County Down (The link will take you to Horatius Bonar's words, but you'll have to click on the "Kingsfold" MIDI link to hear the right tune.)
St. Patrick's Breastplate (Irish tunes "St. Patrick" and "Deirdre" with Cecil Frances Alexander's translation of an ancient Gaelic poem attributed to St. Patrick. The link doesn't have the complete music, but will give you an idea.)
Kilkelly (Green Fields of America)
Non Nobis, Domine (unpublished arrangement by Linda Clary of Patrick Doyle's version from Kenneth Branagh's production of Shakespeare's Henry V)
5 persons to whom I am passing the baton
I'm not going to name names, but hope some people will add their own information in comments.
Comments
I found a better online version of St. Patrick's, if you like the one that's in the Episcopal Hymnal.
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SursumCorda
on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 8:25 am
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