Hello Thrush:

Having performed many,many times since November, let me lend some comments
here...

>I assume there is no way to provide actual music. Let your imagination a
>bit loose and consider that perhaps someday Verant will let us feed in a
>MIDI or .wav file that then goes to the listeners. The bandwidth needed
>for a MIDI might even be within reason.

Sadly, no. There is no 'music' per se. At one point early in world, the
gods talked of offering this possibility, but I do not expect it any time soon.

>So I further assume that you simply supply the words for all those nearby
>to read. Is there a way to do that in reasonable quantity without having
>to type them as you go? Do you perhaps set up chunks of the words as
>command macros, then touch those off one at a time in order?

I'll give you a quick answer and access to a longer one here, about
technique. In the short, you can use macros, but you'll probably find them
woefully inadequate for a song of any length. Also, although I wished we
had some better command for 'singing', having to type each line kind of
simulates true skill required in performance, if you treat typos as missed
notes and such.

For more of my rambling about performance, see a writing I provided for our
students in the Soerbaird library:
http://www.soerbaird.com/iona/singingconcerts.htm

Listen and Live!

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Jythri, Pencerdd of The Soerbaird
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