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This is where you will find tracks to download, and where we will be talking about what we do, criticising our own (and other people's) gigs, offering you some song lyrics to mess around with and - well, anything to do with our music, really ...
Recorded in January 2007, seven demo tracks which, we think, cover most of what we do. Selected by democratic vote and committed to hard disc.
There’s more to Triangle arrangements than just sticking the melody in the tenor and having two soprano lines over the top — though that’s the thing that most people notice about us, so we’ve left Mim to tell you about this ... after all, she’s the one who does most of the hard work (although she may disagree) ...
Then there's Gig-Blog ... otherwise known, for short, as The Glog. A place for comments, ruthless self-criticism and general musings about gigs — our own and other people's — when we remember to write something.
I don't think, somehow, we’re ever going to be competing with such sites as Digital Tradition, but we have a sort of scholarly interest in putting together the most complete versions possible of the songs we want to sing — before hacking them apart again to create a performing version. So, these are the versions of the songs upon which our performing versions are generally based ... more or less ... up to a point. They have been created by the gathering together of as many variants as we can, from performances, books, the internet and anywhere else we can find, and juggling the pieces until an acceptable version of each possible verse can be extracted. Sometimes it's easy, as in the Diggers’ Song, where there is one known composer. Sometimes, it's almost impossible, in cases where Messrs Anon., Trad., and Unknown have evidently not been singing from the same hymn sheet. In any case, these are hardly ‘definitive’ versions, only constructions which include all of the most commonly accepted verses. This is is always going to be a part of the site which is “under construction”, so it will grow pretty continuously (if in fits and starts) as we find more songs and more parts of songs to add to it.
As a general principle, we would not recommend that you attempt to sing any of these songs as they are set out here. They are not intended as performing editions. We do not think that you would keep your friends, let alone your audience, if you were to start singing, for instance, this version of "Tom of Bedlam" in its entirety. Study them, edit them to your own taste, style and satisfaction, and then launch yet another new variant on an unsuspecting world.
One last point. We've added a few comments of our own, but we have not suggested tunes, nor have we given you much in the way of background information. You know where the Internet is — otherwise, how did you get here? Good luck!
© Triangle 2006