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Poor fellow that I am, I took out the Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style, by Peter Schubert, from the library today: it looks like it will be a thoroughly entertaining book.  |
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A test for you increpatio: without looking inside the book and cheating could you tell me whose motet setting of O magnum mysterium is illustrated on the front cover? Baz  |
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« Reply #332 on: 20:23:54, 05-06-2008 » |
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A test for you increpatio: without looking inside the book and cheating could you tell me whose motet setting of O magnum mysterium is illustrated on the front cover?
This would be a setting by the revered medieval polyphonist Mr. Cantus, clearly. (by looking on the back cover, which is not cheating, I find it's attributed to a one Tomas Luis de Victoria.) |
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« Reply #333 on: 20:25:49, 05-06-2008 » |
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A test for you increpatio: without looking inside the book and cheating could you tell me whose motet setting of O magnum mysterium is illustrated on the front cover?
This would be a setting by the revered medieval polyphonist Mr. Cantus, clearly. Are you sure it's not Cant vs? |
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« Reply #334 on: 20:46:53, 05-06-2008 » |
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A test for you increpatio: without looking inside the book and cheating could you tell me whose motet setting of O magnum mysterium is illustrated on the front cover?
This would be a setting by the revered medieval polyphonist Mr. Cantus, clearly. Are you sure it's not Cant vs? I did take it upon myself to do a bit of transliteration. I hope that you do not find it too offensive. |
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« Reply #335 on: 21:30:01, 05-06-2008 » |
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Baz Baz, that picture of you makes you look just like one of the smileys we have on the forum. |
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« Reply #336 on: 22:09:07, 05-06-2008 » |
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« Reply #337 on: 22:29:07, 05-06-2008 » |
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That's a shame, I had just been admiring that trick he is doing with his levitating hair.
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« Reply #338 on: 22:37:15, 05-06-2008 » |
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Two read recently White Noise - Don De Lillo - have to admit could not really understand the supposed humour but as soon as i decided to give up read bits that thought interesting -has anybody else read this - desperatley need feedback lol Filthy Lucre -Simon Rose - farce very much in the Tom Sharpe type - over the top but funny and much easier reading than the De Lillo  |
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« Reply #340 on: 22:54:55, 05-06-2008 » |
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Two read recently
White Noise - Don De Lillo - have to admit could not really understand the supposed humour but as soon as i decided to give up read bits that thought interesting -has anybody else read this - desperatley need feedback lol
Hi offbeat! Actually, I remember loving this book. I think DeLillo is underrated. A fine writer, up there in the Roth, Updike and Bellow league amongst contemporary US writers, but not always aknowledged as such. 'White Noise' is very good indeed, imo - a nice and slightly bizarre take on post-eco-disaster angst, fed through the familiar 'campus tale' genre of a lot of recent US fiction, plus paranoia. The humour, as with all DeLillo, is in the seeming frown...  |
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« Reply #341 on: 01:31:29, 06-06-2008 » |
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Two read recently
White Noise - Don De Lillo - have to admit could not really understand the supposed humour but as soon as i decided to give up read bits that thought interesting -has anybody else read this - desperatley need feedback lol
Hi offbeat! Actually, I remember loving this book. I think DeLillo is underrated. A fine writer, up there in the Roth, Updike and Bellow league amongst contemporary US writers, but not always aknowledged as such. 'White Noise' is very good indeed, imo - a nice and slightly bizarre take on post-eco-disaster angst, fed through the familiar 'campus tale' genre of a lot of recent US fiction, plus paranoia. The humour, as with all DeLillo, is in the seeming frown... I liked White Noise and Mao II a great deal when I read both of them (ages ago, but still have them), though couldn't help feeling that they maybe didn't quite add up to more than the sum of their parts. Libra was less convincing. I started Underworld; somehow the opening piece of virtuosic writing had a bit too much of the self-conscious 'Great American Novel' written all over it, which dissuaded me from continuing further - maybe I will, though. |
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« Reply #342 on: 01:36:57, 06-06-2008 » |
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I've just been reading Stephen Best and Douglas Kellner, The Postmodern Turn. A lot of books on this subject don't exactly make for an enjoyable read, but this one is wonderful: extremely comprehensive and very highly researched, and written extremely clearly, lucidly, and with a good degree of critical perspective. They deal admirably with the pre-history of post-modernism (in particular with respect to Kierkegaard, Marx and Nietzsche) and deal very fairly with opposing viewpoints to their own, whilst maintaining their ground. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this subject.
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« Reply #343 on: 15:37:32, 06-06-2008 » |
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...post-eco-disaster angst, fed through the familiar 'campus tale' genre of a lot of recent US fiction, plus paranoia.
As it happens I've just read Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma, much of which is along those lines (not eco-disaster as such but end-of-the-world type scenario). |
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« Reply #344 on: 16:36:54, 06-06-2008 » |
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Ithe pre-history of post-modernism The what?! |
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