tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post6531090281792691285..comments2024-03-28T07:13:10.797+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: Tingle in anticipationRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-68740910477408903772012-01-23T03:25:38.040+00:002012-01-23T03:25:38.040+00:00I miss you, Lorenzo. Hope you come back soon.I miss you, Lorenzo. Hope you come back soon.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-75473213759949955362012-01-21T14:14:31.433+00:002012-01-21T14:14:31.433+00:00'Summer time and the livin' is easy.
Have...'Summer time and the livin' is easy.<br /><br />Have responded to your comments re Martiniherhimnbrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01182397064631016552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-16733036881751940762012-01-20T17:33:31.158+00:002012-01-20T17:33:31.158+00:00Anon: Tone Deaf invites all Anons to be as unpleas...Anon: Tone Deaf invites all Anons to be as unpleasant as they wish. But compliments are another matter. By all means remain Anon but please add a detail that proves I’m not Anon myself. You see my problem, don’t you?Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-8734496030261248162012-01-20T14:52:22.813+00:002012-01-20T14:52:22.813+00:00I hope it works. your blog is brilliant.
jezzaI hope it works. your blog is brilliant.<br />jezzaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-34705047109137847782012-01-20T06:32:09.166+00:002012-01-20T06:32:09.166+00:00Anon: Dieting.Anon: Dieting.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-45055861773004252292012-01-17T11:53:13.798+00:002012-01-17T11:53:13.798+00:006 days,no blog .Wow,not writers block I hope
jezzz...6 days,no blog .Wow,not writers block I hope<br />jezzza.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-1966875500604530012012-01-11T17:22:02.244+00:002012-01-11T17:22:02.244+00:00No need to be sorrowful about not knowing the intr...No need to be sorrowful about not knowing the intros. Many don't. And there's proof in the recordings of live performances. Often the audience only starts clapping when they finally recognise the song itself - and that can be a minute or so into the action.<br /><br />You have raised a very difficult question which I am not in a position to answer. All the time singers elide unnecessary syllables and stretch out others where there's a syllable lacking. Pop performers are especialy disdainful of scansion but it happens on the posh side too. Take the opening line of of that very well-known aria "What is life?" The allocation of notes is entirely obvious and the translation into English takes account of this. But in the Italian<br />(Che farò senza Euridice) the word "senza" has to be fitted in. See how Janet Baker manages this on one of my earlier posts<br /><br />http://ldptonedeaf.blogspot.com/2011/12/was-i-cruel-you-be-judge.html<br /><br />Very elegantly in fact. And yet when I rewrote Where e'er you walk I felt transfixed by the musical notation. Adding in and subtracting syllables seemed totally alien. After all, once you start where do you finish? <br /><br />I'd be very grateful if you had a go yourself (God Save The Queen, if you like) and see whether you undergo a similar feeling of uneasiness.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-3425898591565957862012-01-11T16:38:14.389+00:002012-01-11T16:38:14.389+00:00I wish I could remember the words of songs. Often ...I wish I could remember the words of songs. Often I can't even discern them. As you show, it can be rewarding. One thing that I have been pondering is the question which you raise about fitting words to music. I am sure that it is not easy, but I have often noticed that liberties can be taken in stretching or compressing words or phrases or altering their stress to accommodate the music - liberties not available to music-less composers of poems. I have never tried, as you have. Perhaps you could expatiate.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.com