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Second on my List - a song by John N MacNeill.

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The song Second on my List could particularly suit a singer whose voice has an ear-catching quality able to make the numerous unaccompanied bars special.
The composer has again to sought to find new ways to write music in a “Celtic” style. There are no accidentals anywhere, though there is a central section with a different key signature. The air is entirely in the pentatonic scale made of the notes common to both key signatures. Other key-signature notes are to be found in the light dissonant accompaniment offered.
The words are a sonnet that has the rhyme-scheme ABBA-BCCB-CDDC-DD, nearly.

In the demonstration audio file, the vocal part is played on a violin, and an accompaniment on an electric piano.

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The sheet music gives the vocal part and that light, somewhat dissonant, accompaniment, which is fairly easy to play on a keyboard instrument.

Words - version about meeting a woman.

Words - version about meeting a man.

Audio.

PDF sheet music.


The song can be sung unaccompanied, with the lengths of rests ad lib. In the following audio file, a violin plays the unaccompanied air.

Audio.

PDF sheet music.

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