{"id":50,"date":"2004-03-30T13:34:45","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T13:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2004\/03\/30\/rounds-on-the-march\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T14:03:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:03:40","slug":"rounds-on-the-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2004\/03\/30\/rounds-on-the-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Rounds on the March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the weekend I returned to Cambridge to take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/~masgks\/march.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/~masgks\/march.html', 'March March march');\">March March march<\/a>.  Some of us enlivened the notorious Earith-Willingham stretch by singing rounds as we strode alongside the Great Ouse.  A few years ago I compiled a list of various places on the route of the March, which could be sung to the tune of <I>Fr&egrave;re Jacques<\/I>, but this time we sang &#8216;Great Tom is cast&#8217;, another to the words &#8216;Viva la musica!&#8217; and finally Byrd&#8217;s <I>Non nobis, Domine<\/I>.  We couldn&#8217;t get this last to work, and now looking at an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soi.city.ac.uk\/~till\/nonnobis.PDF\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.soi.city.ac.uk\/~till\/nonnobis.PDF', 'online edition');\">online edition<\/a> (PDF &#8211; by David Till) I realise how we were going wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Sunday morning I went to Little St Mary&#8217;s Church, where I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk\/~ggvhk\/wedding.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk\/~ggvhk\/wedding.html', 'married');\">married<\/a> a few years ago and heard the choir sing a couple of motets.  When I started singing there, the organist used to change about once a year, but now things are more stable.  The current organist and choirmaster is Christian Rutherford, who plays horn in the Academy of Ancient Music.  (I had Christopher Hogwood for a next-door neighbour nearby for a couple of years, but that&#8217;s another story!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the weekend I returned to Cambridge to take part in the March March march. Some of us enlivened the notorious Earith-Willingham stretch by singing rounds as we strode alongside the Great Ouse. A few years ago I compiled a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2004\/03\/30\/rounds-on-the-march\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,19],"tags":[117,407,839],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}