Lyrics by "Lord Byron," music by "Orpheus": Kingdom Song #136

by compound complex 9 Replies latest jw friends

  • compound complex
    compound complex
  • compound complex
    compound complex

    The members of this forum love Kingdom Melodies.

    Please share your expressions.

    Thanks.

    CC

    edited to add: just got an error message; will try again.

  • BluesBrother
    BluesBrother

    Nice vid Co - Co.. it would grace next week's Service Meeting. For the musically uneducated ones like me, could you please show us where the music resembles "Orpheus" and the lyrics Lord Byron? 

    Thanks 

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thanks, BluesBrother, for your reply. I only now found it.

    I was being facetious to the extreme.

    Lord Byron wrote the most deliciously sublime verse: "She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry nights . . ."

    Orpheus' music charmed both bird and beast. Oh -- fish, too!

    As a musician and composer, I see none of the two immortals' footprints in #136.

    Sorry for the delay . . .

    CoCo

    BTW: the piano's tone and timbre are horrid.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    "Orpheus could make the birds sing, but Wagner could make only one low hen grin."

    Learned that at conservatory.

  • Simon
    Simon

    Aaaaaargh, bad memories !!!

    How do they manage to create that "essence of Watchtower" in every song?

  • clarity
    clarity

    Just a quick note to say hi CoCo ...so glad you are better.

    2 seconds into that "music" was enough!

    Omg always some sort of dirge (sp), most depressing thing!

    I think jw sounds are one reason why so many are depressed.

    take care

    clarity

         

  • shadow
    shadow
    that must be the JW Tabernacle Choir?
  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thank you, Simon, clarity, and shadow for your apt replies.

    Depressing? Yes. In the brown-covered Kingdom Melodies, the new songs were beautiful and could be turned into virtuoso piano solos. The earlier, pink songbook was wonderful because all tunes were in four-part harmony. Obviously, that benefited trained

    Sorry that in seeking to elevate Lord Byron I brought him down -- well, not too much:

    "Of cloudless climes and starry nights skies."

    CC

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Obviously, that benefited trained singers.

    Edited post above refused singers.

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