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What is 'SOUL'....?

Congratulations Ben - that sounds superb! Better still, I feel this piece is going to grow, more and more, with every hour spent tending it.

With a bit of luck, I'm hoping Croft's Ground in C minor becomes the new Toccata & Fugue in D minor, because I'm weary of that old chestnut being trotted out night and day. Time to break new Ground!
That's very kind of you, and yes it will sound much better in a few months than it does at the moment. Glad you like the Bugari sound - its getting high fidelity treatment being recorded unaided on my shabby mobile phone!

I've never actually heard anyone play the ubiquitous T+F in Dm in a concert, I think probably organists are a sick of it as the public. As for accordionists playing Bach organ music - yuck! Nice stunt, but there is so much other two stave Bach that suits the instrument better and I've noticed the more enlightened players go for that instead.
 
I posted a gospel the other day and Walker described as soulful....left me pondering afterwards...
What is 'SOUL' and how does music become soulful.....
I considered wether it was our emotional response to certain chord voicings and progressions....

I was just listening to a radio feature about Roberta Flack and they were saying you can't sing Soul if you've not sung Gospel. Made me think of this topic.
 
yes here in the USA with our shared concept of "soul" it
all came out of the Black experience and grew and sprezd into
mainstream music and back across the pond to England
and Joe Cocker for example, but soulful for y'all includes the
blues (again from the Black Experience expanded out through
the rest of the impoverished wrong side of the tracks eperience
whatever your racial heritage.. so soulful and the blues on your side
has a lot of Clapton and Beck re-defining it too

but yeah for me Roberta and Aretha and Gladys raw, then brought into the
grand ballroom by Dionne and Diana with gilded sequinned refinement

James Brown personified it as powerfully as Elvis personified the
other side of the coin

what you still find today in so many new songs from all genre' is that
"Call and response" stuff that had it's origin in gospel
 
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