So what I've just become interested in, like, within the past few days...

[conuly]

Is rounds. You know, those songs where everybody sings the same song, but they start at different times, and if they do it right it sounds pretty, and if they do it wrong everybody cracks up laughing, so it's a win either way?

Yeah, rounds!

Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time finding good collections of them. Help? I know *somebody* has to know what I'm talking about!

Comments

[bekijane.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think you'll want something like http://www.shoestringpress.com/books/roundbook.html although I'm with you on not being able to find good recordings of simple round singing.

One of the ways that I learned to sing in harmony as a child was by singing in a round; it made me hear how some notes fitted together and others clashed.

[conuly]

What I really need are websites - I can't afford books!

[bekijane.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry. Try

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~msmiller/rounds.html

[conuly]

Thanks.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/songbook/ (http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/songbook/)

That help?

I got quite a few useful looking ones just by googling "go to Joan Glover" (the name of a round.)

[adiva_calandia]

Collections, I don't know so much about. But I can recommend you learn "Ghost of John," which, when done in three parts or more, is wonderfully, wonderfully scary. "Rose Red" and "Hey-ho, Nobody Home" are to a similar tune and send similar chills up my spine.

[mizemm.livejournal.com]

Libana (http://www.libana.com/) sings a lot of rounds.

[bekijane.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think you'll want something like http://www.shoestringpress.com/books/roundbook.html although I'm with you on not being able to find good recordings of simple round singing.

One of the ways that I learned to sing in harmony as a child was by singing in a round; it made me hear how some notes fitted together and others clashed.

[conuly]

What I really need are websites - I can't afford books!

[bekijane.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry. Try

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~msmiller/rounds.html

[conuly]

Thanks.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/songbook/ (http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/songbook/)

That help?

I got quite a few useful looking ones just by googling "go to Joan Glover" (the name of a round.)

[adiva_calandia]

Collections, I don't know so much about. But I can recommend you learn "Ghost of John," which, when done in three parts or more, is wonderfully, wonderfully scary. "Rose Red" and "Hey-ho, Nobody Home" are to a similar tune and send similar chills up my spine.

[mizemm.livejournal.com]

Libana (http://www.libana.com/) sings a lot of rounds.