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Welcome to raybro's pages! This first page gives some spurious information about the raybro himself, while links in the navigation bar (if you can do frames) lead to his renaissance music pages. The first, Reading and Transcribing White Mensural Notation, is devoted to the notation of the Golden Age of the Netherlands' music, and to the printer who extended the popularity of that music in a way that has only recently become commonplace.
The second pages are devoted to Michael Praetorius. Praetorius was the epitomal cantor and evinced his spiritual convictions through his music, both in its quality and quantity of praises for The Lord, but also in his willingness to publish these pieces and distribute them, at his own cost, throughout the German States. Further, he, like Diderot in miniature, documented the music business of his day, in an encyclopaedic collection called Syntagma Musicum. These pages will have some surprises in the coming summer (of '98), so check back from time to time!
The third is a page of links to Things Musical, which I hope will be of use to people. These are the links I've found in my search for information about music on the Web, including such oddities as machine-readable music and bodhran sources!
So just what is a raybro? A question that has bothered many folk for many years, this is.
In short, to dispense with the stilted third-person, I work in Real Life(tm) as a Sr. Field Technician for DDL Omni Engineering, consulting to the Naval Underseas Warfare Center (NUWC). It's pure research, I get to work with everthing from DC to Light. I'm very happy! In the past, I've been the computer technician/systems administrator at a small junior college, a lab-rat (oh, that's lab technician) at United Technologies Research Center, and various Other Things.
Sometimes, amazing things happen, and I'm given a chance to utilize both my penchent for writing and my technical skills. This is the case with the David Says page, a collection of Customer Support replies I ghost writ for a UK ISP Customer Support Dood.
In not-so-Real-Life(tm) I am the music director of The Hanover Consort, a renaissance consort, and sometime director of the choir at the Christian Fellowship Church in Scotland, CT, and I play guitar and bass (and other things) and sing backup vocals in our family music ministry, Gentle Folk.
That's
me, wrapped around and by my youngest son, many years ago. There are five
kids now, ranging from Hope Lynne, who was born early in August of 97,
through
Jesse, who still looks a lot like in the picture, at age 8, Melody (resplendent
with Red Hair) 13, Isaac who is now 17, to Joy, who is now pursuing her
Computer Science degree, and embarassing her father by doing better at her
college than he did at his, in our varying Pascal courses! (Mind, she had
to pull a pretty steady 98% to manage it, but she did it.)
Yes, that's my better half. Well, better 3/4ths, then. I'm a bit less hirsute, now that I'm respectable. Deb and I have been playing music together as long as we've known each other. She's teaching herself Greek and reading Latin for fun. You knew she was weird when you found out she had married me, right? She teaches our children in HomeSchool (well, except for Joy and Hope, for obvious reasons.) She plays and teaches violin and piano, and I play just about everything else. Someday, I'll make a list here, and link it all to that lovely collection of web pages that used to be at Leeds.
Empty threats, you say.
You're probably right.
OK, one more, just for fun: 
This
one is a scan of a colored-pencil drawing that Deb did from a photo she
took of me and Melody in a cuddle, when she (Melody, that is) was 9. Mel,
that is. She's disgustingly talented, isn't she? (Deb, that is.)
Well, that's it for now. Heck, I'm lucky I got this far!