[TPIN] Appropriate music for worship

[Michael Anderson]

The version I always heard was that singers would go from town to town and
sit on benches in the town square and sing songs that tell the news of one
town to another. Meistersingers, Minnesingers, troubadours, trouveres and
all that stuff.. Verbal history etc.

I like your version better though. :-)

MA


> From: Tim Phillips <iplatrpt at unifourbrass.org>
> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:31:33 -0500
> To: Trumpet Players' International Network <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] Appropriate music for worship
> 
> Someone correct me if I am wrong... and I am sure someone probably will
> either way :)
> 
> The Bench Singer's Song (Die Bankelsangerlieder).
> 
> Apparently, this is a folk song that a crusty old gentleman would sing
> whist sitting on a bench in the town square.  The lyrics were often
> vulgar and involving suggestive commentary to young maidens passing by.
> Kinda reminiscent of Artie Johnson's "dirty old man" character from
> Laugh-In (without the 60s censorship, of course) (how did I do dating
> myself with that one?).
>