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« Reply #2295 on: 12:50:53, 03-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #2296 on: 12:55:53, 03-07-2007 » |
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After pounding out the bass line "bumph-bumph" of a 'dance' song in the pub , my partner turned to me when it ended and said, 'They can't even end on a tonic' closely followed by, 'They have no sense of tonal symmetry' Do you think they realise this ??   A |
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« Reply #2297 on: 13:00:43, 03-07-2007 » |
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Maybe he was being "ironic", A.  The composer I'm supposed to be writing about at the moment has what might be a rather too developed sense of tonal symmetry. He has this strange habit of having to cadence in every single one of the 12 keys before he can end a piece! That's why they're all so long ... |
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« Reply #2298 on: 13:40:25, 03-07-2007 » |
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Maybe he was being "ironic", A. The composer I'm supposed to be writing about at the moment has what might be a rather too developed sense of tonal symmetry. He has this strange habit of having to cadence in every single one of the 12 keys before he can end a piece! That's why they're all so long ... Maybe he was, A, especially if the piece concerned (as I believe is often the case in your local) came from the 1960s/70s, and "failed" to render its final chorus by having provided the "obligatory" modulation upwards by a semitone. This failsafe "sock-it-to-them-that-we are-about-to-end" device can often lead to a sense of tonal exasperation and indecisiveness in cases where it is either a) mis-handled, or b) inadvertently omitted. (No wonder so many "failures" were just left to fade out, with no cadence at all.) Baz |
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« Reply #2299 on: 13:46:20, 03-07-2007 » |
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But... it was just a song Baz I don't think 'they' think of all that analytical sort of thing, they just bang a drum and sort of pout a song !!!! A |
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« Reply #2300 on: 16:11:48, 03-07-2007 » |
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Your realization of the whole thing, hh? I'd love to see your notation of the dumb-show. And how about "Tube Train Stopped betweem Stations"? ;-)
No. It was basically just the bit from the recitation of the text to the end. None of us qualified for 'Tube Train Stopped Between Stations' so we omitted it, more's the pity. We developed improvisations for the Compositions rather than notating anything definitively. I wish we had a recording of it, but we don't. Every time I've mentioned the Ode Machines, someone (usually Fabrice Fitch) mishears it as 'Aubergines', hence the title. Whenever I mention Henry Cowell to Max Paddison, he hears 'Henry Cow'...  |
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« Reply #2301 on: 16:46:10, 03-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #2302 on: 17:03:20, 03-07-2007 » |
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I do mine and my mum's by direct debit. That way you can be blissfully ignorant because you don't get a bill. All you have to do then is not look at the bank statements. |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #2303 on: 17:06:55, 03-07-2007 » |
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I pay mine in full right at the start - you get about 3 quid off, and can forget about it till next year.
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« Reply #2304 on: 17:09:10, 03-07-2007 » |
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How are you feeling now, Mary?
Better, I hope.
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« Reply #2305 on: 17:14:03, 03-07-2007 » |
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I pay mine in full right at the start - you get about 3 quid off, and can forget about it till next year.
I suppose I could do that, but I'm in Band F and she's in Band E - and I'm paying school fees now so I do it in the most painless way psychologically...ostrich-style! I also don't want to think about my other grandson who's starting in the kindergarten attached to the school next January. I shall be paying for him all the way up as well! I hope to goodness they don't have any more....  |
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« Reply #2306 on: 17:23:30, 03-07-2007 » |
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Mine's ostrich-style as well, really. I just wince when I pay it!
Ron, thanks for your kind enquiry. I still feel a bit low (quite a lot low), but I've got through the day so far. I'm just going to read through the nice messages people sent me on the Challenges and Upsets thread, to gain some strength. I've avoided moaning to anybody else.
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« Reply #2307 on: 17:39:19, 03-07-2007 » |
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I've just paid my council tax What did you want to go doing that for? Well, last year, while I was starting my continuation year, I hadn't quite worked out all of the paperwork that they needed to see to guarantee my exemption. I received a bill and it went into a big pile of things-to-do-ness. I was in a bit of a nurf at the time and decided to try and ignore everything, and was threatened with legal action by the end of December. And I can't really be bothered with that. If there's some way I can afford to pay without being threatened, I'd like to hear it! |
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« Reply #2308 on: 18:19:42, 03-07-2007 » |
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...and was threatened with legal action by the end of December...
OPPS! HH - you realise that you will now have blown your chance of "serving the community" by never now being asked to do Jury Service! Baz |
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« Reply #2309 on: 19:37:18, 03-07-2007 » |
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Ho!. I really do object to the very high proportion of Council Tax that is going into the retirement fund for Local Authority employees.
Retires, rapidly, to gnash teeth and swear.
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