Messing with style overrides

With the CSS-based styles, all you need to do to override the appearance of things is to construct your own additional STYLE element in GLOBAL_HEAD. It's a bit of a kludge but it works (as long as you know a little CSS, but in my opinion that's easier than figuring out the HTML element templates that will work with your layout).

I like the look of "Magazine" in general, but wanted to take out or lighten most of the border lines. I am not a real graphic designer, but I know that real graphic designers don't like those.

"Chester"

Okay, here is something that has baffled me for a while. The Morton Gould piece to which I am listening is based on an American Revolutionary hymn called "Chester", which was apparently one of the most popular patriotic songs at the time and sort of an unofficial proto-national anthem for a while.

This page has some lyrics for "Chester". These lyrics have been somewhat redacted: originally they were much more specific about naming names, which made the song rather inflammatory.

In any case, try as I might I can't figure out how you'd sing those lyrics to this tune. They don't quite seem to go. Were they just a little looser about beats-to-syllables correspondence at the time? Were they doing Mariah Carey type histrionics with the "i-i-iron rod"?

UPDATE: It was William Schuman, not Morton Gould. Thanks, Sam.

It's not quite structural markup

Okay, why does this template use pairs of BR elements as a paragraph separator instead of actually using multiple paragraphs? That's just brain-damaged.

okay okay

Okay, why am I beginning these entries with "okay"?