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A subset ==Music==The Ode to Williams now has a tune. Pick it out on the piano and try singing it, if you like (or listen to the audio file linked below). You will note that the tune of the last line quotes from [[Ode to HarvardMountains|The Mountains]] by [[Diana Davis . <lilypond>{\partial 2 g4 g c c c d e c c c b b b c d2 g,4 g b b b c d g, g g c c c d e2 e4 e f f f f a, a f' f e c c c d2. c4 b b b c d g, g g c c c d e2 e4 e f f f f a, a e' e c c d e f2. f4 e e d d c g g g e'07]]e d d c2.}\addlyrics { Here I am, I go to Will -- iams, land of moun -- tains fields and trees, written Where the smog and smoke of ci -- ties ne -- ver in her freshman fall of 2003-- ter -- rupts the breeze; Where our u -- ni -- forms are pur -- ple and we proud -- ly sport the cow; Where for dis -- cus -- sions nine -- teen is the most that they al -- low; Where my lec -- ture class is fif -- ty; my pro -- fes -- sor knows my name--- And ev -- ery -- one I meet seems gen -- u -- ine -- ly glad they came. }</lilypond> There is a .wav version an audio file of this ode being performed [http://wso.williams.edu/~ddavis/williamsodewithmusic.wav herethis music with backup percussion and strings]created by Branden Mirach '07, which you can listen to and sing along. ==Lyrics==''The Ode to Williams started out as just a poem. Here it is, though it is now somewhat redundant to the above.''
====Music====
Below is the music for the Ode to Williams. The only example that seems to return a bit of beautifully-formatted music is the one on the [http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/Willipedia:About About page]; everything else, including on the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dscho:LilyPond lilypond wikimedia entry] and on the
[http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/lilypond/Tutorial lilypond.org tutorial] appears to only return an error. Sad, sad Ode to Williams.
<lilypond>g4 g c c c d e c c c b b b c d2 g4 g b b b c d g g g c c c d e2 e4 e f f f f ==About==The Ode to Williams is a subset of the [[Ode to Harvard]] by [[Diana Davis]], written in her freshman fall of 2003. There is a f f e c c c d2 c b b b c d g g g c c c d e2 e4 e f f f f a a e e c c d e (f2 f4) f4 e e d d c g g g e e d d e<.wav version of this ode being performed [http://wso.williams.edu/~ddavis/lilypond>williams.wav here].
→Music: added extra space because end of sentence was going below music when I resized my browswer window
[[Category: Tradition]]
:Here I am -- I go to Williams: land of mountains, fields, and trees,
Apparently, numerous members of the Williams community have taken it upon themselves to learn this catchy bit of verse.
