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« Reply #30 on: 22:32:02, 21-11-2007 » |
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Oh, and, while I'm here, my brain has been oscillating wildly between the Anthony Braxton piece (Composition no.354) I was listening to in the car, the opening of RVW's 5th, and some music that doesn't yet exist anywhere else and probably according to at least one Member I can think of is is it not probably best kept where it is.
I think that you brain may need a little break if it has been urged by its Barrettine owner to oscillate between Braxton 354 and Vaughan Williams 5, even if only to allow more easily the genesis of that other music to which you refer - anent which, whilst I'm sure you'd not wish to identify the said "at least one Member" publicly here, you're welcome to shock me with that revelation (which I will naturally keep well and truly to myself) in a private email if you so choose... Are you now back from the Udders? Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #31 on: 22:35:19, 21-11-2007 » |
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I'm sure you'd not wish to identify the said "at least one Member" publicly I thought I'd already given it away in my turn of phrase... yes, back down south, though on Friday I'll be off further north for a few days, to Stockholm in fact. |
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« Reply #32 on: 22:43:43, 21-11-2007 » |
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Believe me, IRF, when I say that not knowing the words of G&S patter songs is always best, because when you DO know all the words, you end up with the song on the brain in its entirety.
The Nightmare Song from Iolanthe is the worst, as it's linear rather than strophic, so you can't even "just" have all of one verse going round your head... but I suppose that's the point!
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« Reply #33 on: 22:53:04, 21-11-2007 » |
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The Nightmare Song from Iolanthe is the worst, as it's linear rather than strophic, so you can't even "just" have all of one verse going round your head... but I suppose that's the point! That's the only G&S number I know the words of, because of its improbable inclusion on this album.  |
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« Reply #34 on: 23:25:11, 21-11-2007 » |
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The Nightmare Song from Iolanthe is the worst, as it's linear rather than strophic, so you can't even "just" have all of one verse going round your head... but I suppose that's the point! That's the only G&S number I know the words of, because of its improbable inclusion on this album. Todd Rundgren recorded the Nightmare Song? |
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« Reply #35 on: 00:16:21, 22-11-2007 » |
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Many of the bits of classical music which suddenly appear in my head are a mystery to me, I can't recognize them unless they're from something I've just been listening to. But then I'm hopeless at recognizing things which I turn on part way through on the radio, even if they're very familiar. I started humming something to myself a few minutes ago, very familiar to me - might be a Schubert string quartet, but I just don't know. I have a few non-classical songs which I use regularly to suppress anything really annoying which I can't get out of my head.
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« Reply #36 on: 09:53:35, 22-11-2007 » |
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Todd Rundgren recorded the Nightmare Song? Yes he did, and on that 1974 double album. IIRC he recounts in the liner notes how it was some kind of exorcism of years of forced exposure to G&S at a young age. The accompaniment (which he did alone by multitracking) uses electric keyboards rather than an orchestra, and the various tribulations of the Lord Chancellor are accompanies by cartoon-like sound effects. It's a bit of a chuckle but what must his American fans have thought of it at the time? (man, that is some bad trip...) |
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« Reply #37 on: 10:18:11, 22-11-2007 » |
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Todd Rundgren recorded the Nightmare Song? Yes he did, and on that 1974 double album. IIRC he recounts in the liner notes how it was some kind of exorcism of years of forced exposure to G&S at a young age. The accompaniment (which he did alone by multitracking) uses electric keyboards rather than an orchestra, and the various tribulations of the Lord Chancellor are accompanies by cartoon-like sound effects. It's a bit of a chuckle but what must his American fans have thought of it at the time? (man, that is some bad trip...) I'm finding it very hard to imagine... although his early work with Utopia was pretty avant garde (at least for a mainstream rock guitarist) with experiments in electronic and computer generated music, and I'm not sure what his fans made of that! I should really get those Utopia albums on CD and see if I still find them as interesting as I once did... And now, of course, I can't stop humming random lines (all I can remember) from the Nightmare Song  |
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« Reply #38 on: 10:48:46, 22-11-2007 » |
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Well, IRF, the Todd double album is one of his best in my opinion and ranges throughout his multifarious interests, from G&S to trippy electronics to Hendrix to those bittersweet ballads he was so good at. So in other words you should really have a copy of it. I still like all his 1970s work, though this may be primarily nostalgia. Some of his songs do often insinuate themselves into my brain when I least expect it. ("City in my head... Utopia")
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« Reply #39 on: 12:42:41, 22-11-2007 » |
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I have a problem that everything musical sticks in my head - this is why I will not listen to anything or have anyones "background" music on anywhere near me. Once it has stuck in my head and is almost impossible to dislodge and it slowly drives me mad. That's why I stay out of shops with music playing and will not work in a environment where there is unnecessary noise.
Annoyingly, I also seem to have about 100% recall of every song or piece I've heard. So, can quite happily working or whatever and suddenly some song i heard once years ago, pops into my head and stops me from thinking. I try to avoid noise by having my own music on whenever possible to eliminate the chances of this happening.
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« Reply #40 on: 12:19:40, 23-11-2007 » |
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Ho! There are occasions when my mind gets trapped by some theme arising from nowhere in particular. In my performing days, I was frequently attacked by the dreaded "Singers Melody Malady Syndrome" - also known, vulgarly, as Bars on the Brain. There were times when the onslaught was such as to render sleep nearly impossible and attempts to overcome the concerned "melody" by the constant listening to other music usually failed and only served to extend the length of the syndrome's visit. Large amounts of Malt helped but often led to distortion of the given "theme". The "syndrome" generally attacked when studying a new part or preparing in detail for a performance. Is there a cure for this? No! Performers must suffer. Aaaaargh!
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« Reply #41 on: 16:07:17, 23-11-2007 » |
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Today's repertoire has included bits of Schubert and Wolf lieder, extracts of the opening scene of Das Rheingold, and was stuck on parts of Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces before my mind made a connection between the end of the Te Deum - big chorus, with a solo soprano coming in right at the end - and the end of the auto-da-fé scene from Don Carlos. Which led me on to the auto-da-fé scene from Candide  And now, for some reason, I'm back to the Four Sacred Pieces, specifically the Laudi alla vergine Maria. Will this never end? |
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« Reply #42 on: 16:29:25, 23-11-2007 » |
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The bloomin E minor fugue from WTC Book II being bloomin discussed over on the bloomin E minor Gigue thread.  |
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« Reply #43 on: 16:42:29, 23-11-2007 » |
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martle, I can think of more worser torture.
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« Reply #44 on: 17:07:49, 23-11-2007 » |
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martle, I can think of more worser torture.
Sure, Dishy. But it's the vice-like nature of its grip on my brain that's worrisome. It feels as if it's in for the long game. Quality worm, no doubt; but still a worm for all that.  |
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