Musical conversation

[resonant]

Spouse: So did you get any new stuff in choir practice?
Me: Yeah. We have a pretty nice setting of that "Set me as a seal upon your heart" thing and a "Surely he hath borne our griefs" by a contemporary of Bach's, only I've forgotten his name.
Spouse: [offers several names]
Me: No, none of those.
Spouse: [shrugs] He had a lot of contemporaries.
Me: Yeah. It's something we have in common with Bach. Actually we have even more contemporaries than he did.
Spouse: There, you see? Progress.

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Progress. Heh.

Which setting of "Set Me As A Seal" is it? I sang that one with my renaissance/medieval/chamber ensemble years back, and liked it a lot. We had them sing it at our wedding, actually. If it's the one I'm thinking of. :-)

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Hee! Can I adopt you and Spouse?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Um. I don't know, and I won't get another chance to look at the sheet music until next Thursday. [Odds of Res keeping an idea in her head from Friday to Thursday = slim.]

It's SATB, mostly in a minor key but resolving on the last repetition of the word "death," and it has triplets on "can-not quench" -- does that help you any?

We had that verse as one of the readings at our wedding, and it was the occasion of a terrible fight with my mother -- I told her we'd chosen something from the Song of Solomon, and she was absolutely sure that it was going to be one of the lurid parts, "we have a little sister and she has no breasts" or something, and nothing anyone said could convince her to actually go look at the verse before getting upset about it. (She's usually quite a rational human being, so I think it was temporary my-daughter-getting-married psychosis.)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Depends. Do we get brownies?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Semi-inebriated folk-music fans with sticks! This is getting better and better.