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By my calculations, this should be my 4000th post. Gulp. Just needed to get it out of the way.
As you were. I hope a brief perusal of my left-hand margin makes you feel a bit better, martle...  (Was going to post it in smoke signals but no translator available as yet  ) |
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« Reply #2701 on: 08:35:25, 16-03-2008 » |
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Anyone know about jungle drums.
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« Reply #2702 on: 14:38:34, 16-03-2008 » |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #2703 on: 15:59:02, 16-03-2008 » |
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Right. I'm off. Be good.
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #2704 on: 16:46:41, 16-03-2008 » |
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Ha ha, nice one kittybriton!! Yeah, I know! Does anyone on these boards know how to actually do the old jungle drumming, apart from the usual jokes, ofcourse!
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« Reply #2705 on: 19:27:32, 16-03-2008 » |
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What do you actually mean by jungle drumming?
Which jungle for starters!
Are you looking for some traditional drumming from a jungle-based culture (yes I realise that reads like I'm being pedantic but I'm not. Honest! I've just been reading too much ethnomusicology)? Do you have one in mind (e.g. Central Africa)?
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« Reply #2706 on: 21:29:37, 16-03-2008 » |
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I'm teaching Freischütz tomorrow. It has to cover an introduction to Singspiel and I want it to take German opera as far as Tristan by the end of the second hour. I should really start planning it now...  |
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« Reply #2707 on: 21:37:02, 16-03-2008 » |
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I'm teaching Freischütz tomorrow. It has to cover an introduction to Singspiel and I want it to take German opera as far as Tristan by the end of the second hour. I should really start planning it now... In my second year as an undergraduate I took Robin Holloway's course on Wagner. It was meant to consist of 12 lectures and by the end of lecture 6, as I recall, he'd got about as far as Der fliegende Holländer. I do however know more about Halévy's La Juive than I otherwise would! |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2708 on: 21:43:49, 16-03-2008 » |
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HH, you seem to be teaching something similar to an elective module which I took when I was at York (as a diversion from my linguistics degree!) taught by David Blake.
I'm almost certain it only took him two sessions in total to get from Freischütz to Tristan - but I'm buglered if I can think how he did it...
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #2709 on: 21:50:45, 16-03-2008 » |
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Sounds a lot more interesting than the piece of work I should have finished by tomorrow that I've barely started ... I'm almost certain it only took him two sessions in total to get from Freischütz to Tristan - but I'm buglered if I can think how he did it...
The key missing link for me is Marschner - to whom Wagner's debt is vast and barely acknowledged, and who is IMO a shamefully neglected composer. But that's probably one for another thread ... |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #2710 on: 22:46:16, 16-03-2008 » |
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That's probably a bit too advanced for this lot.
It's first year history (17/18 year olds) so we're just scratching the sewerface really. I'll probably try and sell them Freischütz as a transitional piece halfway between Singspiel and Wagner's music drama.
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« Reply #2711 on: 22:54:52, 16-03-2008 » |
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In which case Samiel's leitmotiv is of course a dead giveaway!  |
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« Reply #2712 on: 08:36:23, 17-03-2008 » |
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T & I. One of my favourite Wagner operas. Great things in there.
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« Reply #2713 on: 08:45:45, 17-03-2008 » |
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Why isn't there a smiley that's a frowny which winks?
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« Reply #2714 on: 09:41:27, 17-03-2008 » |
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You're back, Chaffers! er, turffers  I hasn't realised it was you! Good to see youi back Guess the cold turkey worked then? |
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