06-20-2003, 01:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2003, 02:01 PM by Jeunemaitre.)
Suggestion for Count Dukula: try a brass quintet version of Canon (which is not actually a canon, strictly speaking). I'm a sucker for brass arrangements though (I guess it comes from spending my formative years cutting holes in my lips where the braces lined up with the rim of my trumpet's mouthpiece).
I guess I'm the only one who falls victim to patriotic music. I still have to try to not well-up to a well done performance of The Star Spangled Banner. Also, just for shear power in lyric writing, listen to a good performance of The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Truth is marching, truth is marching). Iâm not talking about the chorus or the introduction or the refrain: [please suspend religious skepticism, and engage your role-playing side: imagine yourself dressed in a blue wool uniform, with ill fitting footwear, exhausted, hungry, and surrounded by freezing cold aside from the "heat of battle." A song rises up from the men around you. You listen, attentively, but relatively unaffected through the first three verses, in the fourth you are confronted with:]
In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigured you and me.
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make them free,
While God is marching on...
I understand that this might not be inspirational for many folks out there, but every time I hear it I think about how it sounded during the Civil War. Maybe I'm just a nut. Also remember, it's better when sung.
Another favorite is a 15th (I think) century motet in French. "Mile regretz" attributed to Josquin Desprez:
Mille regretz de vous abandone, et delonge votre fache amereuse, j'ai si grande paine delurouse...
Sorry, that's all I can remember off the top of my head, and it has been a while since I've done any typing in French, so may the body populace francophone forgive me...
Thus endeth the windbag...
*Aside, Count, good luck in continuing to avoid Nanny's swatting flys with the refreger-urm-erator*
I guess I'm the only one who falls victim to patriotic music. I still have to try to not well-up to a well done performance of The Star Spangled Banner. Also, just for shear power in lyric writing, listen to a good performance of The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Truth is marching, truth is marching). Iâm not talking about the chorus or the introduction or the refrain: [please suspend religious skepticism, and engage your role-playing side: imagine yourself dressed in a blue wool uniform, with ill fitting footwear, exhausted, hungry, and surrounded by freezing cold aside from the "heat of battle." A song rises up from the men around you. You listen, attentively, but relatively unaffected through the first three verses, in the fourth you are confronted with:]
In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigured you and me.
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make them free,
While God is marching on...
I understand that this might not be inspirational for many folks out there, but every time I hear it I think about how it sounded during the Civil War. Maybe I'm just a nut. Also remember, it's better when sung.
Another favorite is a 15th (I think) century motet in French. "Mile regretz" attributed to Josquin Desprez:
Mille regretz de vous abandone, et delonge votre fache amereuse, j'ai si grande paine delurouse...
Sorry, that's all I can remember off the top of my head, and it has been a while since I've done any typing in French, so may the body populace francophone forgive me...
Thus endeth the windbag...
*Aside, Count, good luck in continuing to avoid Nanny's swatting flys with the refreger-urm-erator*
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