{"id":2984,"date":"2024-06-02T05:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T05:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2024-06-02T05:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T05:03:18","slug":"3-minute-vespers-no-4-the-lost-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2984","title":{"rendered":"3-MINUTE VESPERS, NO. 4: ‘THE LOST SHEEP’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The above image is from a short video I’ve never released of the last time I heard my mother play her piano, the one I’m working on now in my 3-Minute Vespers series. The song she worked hard to play was her own tune, “The Lost Sheep.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve never shared the video of Mom because she fumbled with the chords and messed up some of the fingerings — that is, she didn’t play with the confidence and skill she’d always had at the keyboard as a church pianist. I’ve never been that good, so I don’t mind showing a video of myself hitting some sour notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In comments elsewhere, I’ve noted that this song is kind of odd. The verses and the chorus are in different time signatures, for one thing. By the time I learned to play the song and noticed the time change, Mom couldn’t explain why she’d written the tune that way. When I included “The Lost Sheep” in a medley of gospel songs and arranged it for guitar, I played the song in 4\/4 time from start to finish. I think it sounds better my way — but I know it’s still Mom\u2019s song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the lyrics don’t make sense, especially in the repetitive lines of the chorus. I won’t go into detail with that criticism. However, it\u2019s probably the main reason that Stamps-Baxter Music rejected it. I suspect the song was also too long, with the aforementioned time change and its overall faulty construction to blame (each verse contains a “bridge” to the chorus).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I enjoyed playing it, and Mom liked hearing it. Here’s the link to “The Lost Sheep<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The above image is from a short video I’ve never released of the last time I heard my mother play her piano, the one I’m working on now in my 3-Minute Vespers series. The song she worked hard to play was her own tune, “The Lost Sheep.” I’ve never shared the video of Mom because … Continue reading 3-MINUTE VESPERS, NO. 4: ‘THE LOST SHEEP’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}