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She will also guide us all in preparing the food for each other over the weekend in the historic tavern setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/25306efa-083b-469f-b029-8733b270ad37/IMG_2348.JPG News - EASTFIELD SINGING SCHOOL RETREAT -JULY 24-26th - Make it stand out Some of the students and teachers from out first class! https://www.allisonblakesteel.com/news/august-2025-songs-work-in-progress-report monthly 0.5 2025-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/7ea77333-93fa-4a3f-ac66-107e7e42bf4f/EDINBURGH+in+C.JPG News - August 2025 Songs- Work In Progress Report - Make it stand out I like to do “minorizations” of major fuges. As an exercise, as a way to understand fuges better, and, most importantly, to see if they’re any good to sing. I think this one pretty much works. I’ll be looking for a new text if you have any suggestions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/10ad69fe-0972-41a8-a313-afb826e97dc7/IMG_7393.jpg News - August 2025 Songs- Work In Progress Report - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/682ee493-4d80-47b3-84d9-a89ace4ad4e4/THE+DRUNKARD_S+PLEA.png News - August 2025 Songs- Work In Progress Report - Make it stand out I have been on a multi-year quest to write some earnest Temperance hymns. A lot of the texts are really terrible. I contorted myself a lot to make this text say something I found interesting. 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Unseen worlds! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/b9bd6e6c-b103-4c21-97ca-924424413d87/THE+LORD+WILL+COME.png News - August 2025 Songs- Work In Progress Report - Make it stand out I wrote this arangment of “House of the Rising Sun” because I think it’s a perfect tune and the words seemed to fit. But I wrote another one in the spring. So I looked at them both side-by-side and wrote a third with what I thought were the best qualities of each song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/e047cd92-b7fc-44f6-89f5-b6e1442da376/THE+RISING+SUN.JPG News - August 2025 Songs- Work In Progress Report - Make it stand out Is it the best of the bunch? Only time will tell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/914431d7-4dd4-4e5d-bc0e-9bce8ab021d2/THE+WATCHMAN+ON+THE+WALL.png News - August 2025 Songs- Work In Progress Report - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/582b25d8-b607-403e-bb0b-fba7ca60ed27/THE+MENTAL+WORLD.JPG News - August 2025 Songs- Work In Progress Report - Make it stand out The unusual repeat structure of this song is just because I am lazy about re-writing tunes sometimes and also don’t have a lot of paper. If people enjoy it I’ll write it out properly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/910d767c-75aa-4adf-903d-8147881a996e/BRIDGEPORT.png News - August 2025 Songs- Work In Progress Report - Make it stand out This is a little exercise I give to my composing students. Just start with an existing tune. This tune is from the Easy Instructor and I thought… I’ll just give it a go. It’s pretty fun and really brings home to me how much stronger the whole song is if you start from a very good tune. I’m not sure if I have a scan of the original harmonies to see what is different in my version. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68066d452b563d0e6bdbfdbf/62d9c46a-d526-499c-9db0-4d555efa6edc/GLASGOW.png News - August 2025 Songs- Work In Progress Report - Make it stand out It’s my most fervent wish to write good minor fuging tunes like Daniel Read. But I don’t find it easy to understand how fuges work or fit together. I find them clever in a way I don’t usually feel clever. They don’t come naturally or easily to me. So I spend a lot of time emulating and studying and copying them. Extra points for whoever tells me which tune in the Sacred Harp this is based on. 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