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I've Got Nothing~ Logan Turner

 I'm gonna be honest. I have no clue what I just read. Me reading this was like a first grader trying to read. They can read the words, but they have no clue what they actually mean. This may as well have been in Greek because I retained mostly nothing from reading this. All of the music terms just completely went over my head, which made the task of reading and writing about Weelkes daunting.

Despite the fact I could not really comprehend what I was reading, I did notice something. The one thing I thought is that I found it odd that he wrote so much music for the church. That alone isn't odd, but it's odd once you consider the fact that this guy was infamous for being a drunkard. Like, a drunkard writing music for the church? It just conflicts with the image I have in my head. On one hand, you have a drunk belligerent person, and on the other hand, you have a guy writing music that was deemed appropriate for the church. Neither of those images really click in my mind, so I thought I would put in here. Other than that, I don't really have much to contribute to the conversation.

Anyway, those are my thoughts.


Edit: Commented on Madalyn Dillard's and Lily Caswell's posts

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  1. IsabelleApril 27, 2021 at 8:04 AM

    I'm a music person, and it was difficult for me to retain any of the information as well. Interesting point, by the way. I find the irony of the drunkard also being the church composer to be somewhat symbolic. We seem to have this idea of a picture of perfection in our minds when talking about the early churches. It almost gives me a bit of an existential crisis to remember they were more like us than we tend to believe. Weelkes had his problems, but he still wrote for the church.

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  2. Braylan StringfellowApril 27, 2021 at 9:16 AM

    You are not the only one struggling to retain what you're reading. Honestly its the end of the semester and we all struggling out here. It is very ironic how a drunkard was the one to write all these church songs. Ironic is the only word to describe it.

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  3. Haley RiddleMay 6, 2021 at 10:12 PM

    I found this reading quite difficult... so I just googled the names of the composers and listened instead.

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