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« Reply #120 on: 21:57:07, 14-09-2007 » |
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“It's easy to play the clavichord: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”
(c) J S Bach
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« Reply #121 on: 22:01:15, 14-09-2007 » |
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Ah, thanks Reiner, I've got it now. Another problem solved!  |
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« Reply #122 on: 22:09:23, 14-09-2007 » |
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I was messing around with a clavichord a couple of months ago and somehow even those simplest and clearest of instructions caused me no end of trouble. The right key OR the right time I can manage. But apparently that's not good enough for Mr clever-clogs Bach.
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« Reply #123 on: 22:12:09, 14-09-2007 » |
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And I have no idea whatsoever how Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto goes.
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« Reply #124 on: 22:21:32, 14-09-2007 » |
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Blimey, Richard... it goes la-LA-da, la-LA-da, la-La-la-La-la, LA... (etc).
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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Blimey, Richard... it goes la-LA-da, la-LA-da, la-La-la-La-la, LA... (etc).
Sorry, that's not quite right..... Accompaniment: piddle widdle widdle widdle, piddle widdle widdle... etc Soloist: la-di Daaah da, di Daaah da, di daadidaadi loooooo Tommo |
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« Reply #126 on: 22:28:08, 14-09-2007 » |
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The right key OR the right time I can manage. Same here. That's what I get from taking lessons from that damn Heisenberg. |
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« Reply #127 on: 22:44:12, 14-09-2007 » |
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Blimey, Richard... it goes la-LA-da, la-LA-da, la-La-la-La-la, LA... (etc).
Sorry, that's not quite right..... Accompaniment: piddle widdle widdle widdle, piddle widdle widdle... etc Soloist: la-di Daaah da, di Daaah da, di daadidaadi loooooo Tommo Tommo's performance is obviously more romantic while Reiner's use of a pre-Tourte bow is possibly overdoing the HIPness for Mendelssohn, but I have to say I'm not really hearing it yet. |
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I've never read Molloy, Malone Dies, or The Unnamable, though they've been on my shelf for about 10 years.
Ooh! Do it! I seem to remember reading them mostly on the train either towards or away from Huddersfield, so perhaps Engel's favourite English town will work the same magic on you... Sorry. That's off topic isn't it. I always get confused about precisely where Germany is. And the middle of the US is a complete mystery to me. I also got stuck halfway through Don Quixote about 15 years ago, so will have to start again. Also I didn't finish Finnegans Wake or Proust or How It Is. I couldn't change a tyre if I needed to. |
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« Reply #129 on: 23:08:27, 14-09-2007 » |
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I couldn't change a tyre if I needed to.
Yup, I forgot that one too... I've started Dr Faustus at least three times and failed to make it to the end. It's not even a long book AND I enjoyed it. What's going on there, I wonder? Mendelssohn Violin Concerto - don't forget the POM --- --- POM POM --- --- POM POM --- ... underneath the piddle widdles. |
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« Reply #130 on: 23:12:52, 14-09-2007 » |
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I couldn't change a tyre if I needed to.
Now we're talking. Tyre? I can barely change a lightbulb. Hanging a picture? Fuses? Carpentry of the most elementary kind? And cars - where do they put the screen-wipe fluid? What's that big thing under the bonnet/hood with wires and stuff sticking out? And taps, plugs etc.? What's all that about? What's the difference between a bolt, a screw or a nail? I mean, really?  |
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« Reply #131 on: 23:28:51, 14-09-2007 » |
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I've never read Molloy, Malone Dies, or The Unnamable, though they've been on my shelf for about 10 years.
Ooh! Do it! I seem to remember reading them mostly on the train either towards or away from Huddersfield, so perhaps Engel's favourite English town will work the same magic on you... 
And the middle of the US is a complete mystery to me.
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« Reply #132 on: 23:48:28, 14-09-2007 » |
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And I have no idea whatsoever how Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto goes.
Oh, I've got one. I can never remember how ANY violin concerto goes, except, bizarrely, for the main theme of each one's last movement. |
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« Reply #133 on: 00:03:50, 15-09-2007 » |
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I have not one tiniest shred of musical ability anywhere in my body, though I would gladly sell my soul for it  I reached this depressing conclusion as a student, when I thought I should learn to play the guitar. After weeks of trying unsuccessfully to tune it (I am not exaggerating), I realised there was some crucial musical connection missing in my brain. I had no idea what note a plucked string was sounding, nor how close or far it was from its intended note. A tuning fork didn't help. It goes "ting", the guitar goes "ping" -- totally different sounds! How can I tell if they are playing the same note when they don't even make the same sound?  No musical ability. At all. Not a sausage. It's so depressing I am so envious of the rest of you. |
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« Reply #134 on: 00:16:36, 15-09-2007 » |
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Oh, I've got one.
I can never remember how ANY violin concerto goes, except, bizarrely, for the main theme of each one's last movement.
That rings very true with me, Ruth. It's the only thing I remember about the Brahms and Sibelius. And I'm not always sure which one is which. (The Brahms is the one that quotes "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina", right?) |
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