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icepixieAlas, another week without Doc quotes. He's being funny, but it's just not going to translate without laborious context, so hey.
- Is it a sign that I've been spending too much time on my Linguistics homework when I say that I had a strange desire to write out our warmups in IPA?
- We did the Hebrew song this time. Earlier this week, as I was listening to Gregorian chant stuff for Music History, I thought, "Hey, no set rhythm! That must be easy!" Actually, no. No, it's not. Especially not when there's a quintuplet [five sixteenth notes in a row] at some ridiculous tempo. But it'll be pretty once we get it right.
- Likewise, the African song will be nifty once we get the clicks down. Apparently we learn the dance moves next week. More shooting our feet?
- "Fog" was...uh...foggy. With whispers. I think you have to hear it to understand.
- The setting of Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star" gives me an idea of what it's like to be a bass. 24 measures of "O Star," with a quarter note for "O" then 3.5 measures of "Star," all on the same note. Yeah, we had something like that in the Stroop pieces, but this definitely exceeds them. It's nice, though; I really like the accompaniment, with all the high and flighty notes.
- And finally...I hate Handel. No, really. Him and his runs and fugues need to go away. BAH ON HANDEL. I wish to ofslag him! Even though he's already forthferde!
...Right. And with that I put the Anglo-Saxon book away...
- Is it a sign that I've been spending too much time on my Linguistics homework when I say that I had a strange desire to write out our warmups in IPA?
- We did the Hebrew song this time. Earlier this week, as I was listening to Gregorian chant stuff for Music History, I thought, "Hey, no set rhythm! That must be easy!" Actually, no. No, it's not. Especially not when there's a quintuplet [five sixteenth notes in a row] at some ridiculous tempo. But it'll be pretty once we get it right.
- Likewise, the African song will be nifty once we get the clicks down. Apparently we learn the dance moves next week. More shooting our feet?
- "Fog" was...uh...foggy. With whispers. I think you have to hear it to understand.
- The setting of Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star" gives me an idea of what it's like to be a bass. 24 measures of "O Star," with a quarter note for "O" then 3.5 measures of "Star," all on the same note. Yeah, we had something like that in the Stroop pieces, but this definitely exceeds them. It's nice, though; I really like the accompaniment, with all the high and flighty notes.
- And finally...I hate Handel. No, really. Him and his runs and fugues need to go away. BAH ON HANDEL. I wish to ofslag him! Even though he's already forthferde!
...Right. And with that I put the Anglo-Saxon book away...
