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Composers in the British National Corpus

I have recently come across this intriguing graphical representation of the frequency of words in the British National Corpus, a corpus of spoken and written British English dating from the early 1990’s. As it includes proper names, I tried various … Continue reading

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things I’d like to sing (1)

I haven’t much time this week, so I’m posting a list of pieces of church music which I’d really like to sing and which I’ve been sending to the conductors of some of the choirs I sing in when they’ve … Continue reading

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casing the joint at Winchester

On Saturday I went to Winchester (driving, as the railway service was disrupted by engineering works) to sing evensong with the Erleigh Cantors in the Cathedral. We did my favourite set of responses, the Lloyd second set. If only I … Continue reading

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