{"id":5691,"date":"2020-12-31T17:52:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2022-11-03T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T23:40:23","slug":"lichfield-the-geeks-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2020\/12\/31\/lichfield-the-geeks-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Lichfield, the geeks’ cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope they won’t mind my describing them that way. Not long ago I wrote about their project to crowdsource transcriptions<\/a> of their 19th-century music lists. I’m still at work on this, a few days of music at a time over coffee. In fact, I’ve done enough that many composer names and anthem titles are automatically suggested by my browser, though I still have to check for capitalisations and variant spellings.<\/p>\n

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\nI’ve also written before about Lichfield’s Advent and Lent quizzes. Two years ago it was encrypted dedications<\/a>, and that was repeated this Advent, but using the same method of encryption each time: an online simulator of the Enigma machine. The machine’s daily settings were clued by placenames. With a little help (it’s useful being married to a mathematician) I got going and was able to work out the dedications, and identify enough of them to get namechecked on the winners’ report<\/a>. A surprisingly large number of the information about dedications could be found on the internet, which was just as well as I failed to recognise some of pieces that I have sung many times.<\/p>\n

I have no particular connection to Lichfield, though I might just possibly be singing there in 2021. [February 2021: No! It’s off.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope they won’t mind my describing them that way. Not long ago I wrote about their project to crowdsource transcriptions of their 19th-century music lists. I’m still at work on this, a few days of music at a time … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691"}],"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=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5729,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/5729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}