tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post8881066030360194863..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Friday MiscellaneaBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-49473053696604138692016-02-09T16:02:40.528-06:002016-02-09T16:02:40.528-06:00@Marc: Satie had an interesting role historically....@Marc: Satie had an interesting role historically. He was kind of a pre-modernist in the late 19th century and was an influence on Debussy. In Canada there were some interesting music programs of educational value on the CBC. I think the first time I heard a harpsichord was on a Sunday afternoon CBC show, played by Glenn Gould.<br /><br />@Jeph: dancers pretty much trade in enthusiastically and energetically leaping about!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-21619695754636171012016-02-09T13:12:44.274-06:002016-02-09T13:12:44.274-06:00Wowee, it's hard to describe just how bad that...Wowee, it's hard to describe just how bad that Goldberg variations thing with the dancers is. I guess I appreciate their enthusiasm, but jeez...Jephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-3469832281053967542016-02-09T10:55:14.091-06:002016-02-09T10:55:14.091-06:00Because Ensemble intercontemporain (that's how...Because Ensemble intercontemporain (that's how it's written) is in my Facebook feed, I discovered Francois-Bernard Mâche's Kassandra. They wouldn't be very pleased because am not listening for any exalted purpose, ahem. Does anyone remember television programming in the early 60s that was designed to teach kids about musical instruments and orchestras? 'And this is the bassoon!' 'Can you tell your teacher what instrument is making <i>this</i> sound?' I know about Leonard Bernstein's Guides but what I'm recalling was not those; perhaps they were made for use in schools. Anyway, am amusing myself trying to identify what is making the sounds in Mâche's Kassandra. A pre-Lent, Mardi Gras, treat. Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-75450799923268030092016-02-08T12:26:59.403-06:002016-02-08T12:26:59.403-06:0050,000 listens to that BL Satie at this point. Won...50,000 listens to that BL Satie at this point. Wonder if anyone went out and bought a CD of Satie's music, or looked about for a concert performance?Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-59023546585061385912016-02-05T12:48:56.609-06:002016-02-05T12:48:56.609-06:00The Satie piece was quite interesting and clever, ...The Satie piece was quite interesting and clever, I thought, not that I'd ever listen to it again-- a briefly interesting & clever artistic artefact, not an interesting and clever piece of music-- I wonder how Brendan Landis describes it; in any case it goaded me to read the Wikipedia article about Satie, whose Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes I listen to occasionally without ever having read anything about the composer beyond the most basic facts. There's an article at Disquiet about how, according to the author, Landis's <i>sound art</i> is grounded in Satie's work itself: [http://goo.gl/QdyLeC].Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-39194703913293861492016-02-05T12:30:28.410-06:002016-02-05T12:30:28.410-06:00Yes, the Wikipedia article was surprisingly good o...Yes, the Wikipedia article was surprisingly good on the etymology, wasn't it?<br /><br />Oh, I almost never listen to all of those "100 Best" clips. I just dip into them here and there.<br /><br />My list of noise pet peeves begins with neighbours playing music, followed by dogs barking.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-51586406858516214622016-02-05T12:03:51.567-06:002016-02-05T12:03:51.567-06:00Portmanteau is the word I was trying to pull out o...Portmanteau is the word I was trying to pull out of my memory. My assumption had been that it had something to do with sexual acrobatics but 'twist'-&-'work'-in-New Orleans sounds plausible, sure.<br /><br />Hoping to establish that am not entirely woefully ignorant of contemporary pop music, I did recognise somewhere between a quarter and a third of those bass lines, although after the first five minutes I skipped forward two or three times. <br /><br />That-- noisy neighbors-- is probably reason number one why I will never ever live in an apartment building. Of course the greater problem is 'neighbors' who are inconsiderate of those they live amongst-- your offender was across the street-- if they are playing that music at such high volume they are doubtless also doing other nonsense.Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-13366731845783210992016-02-05T10:11:18.802-06:002016-02-05T10:11:18.802-06:00According to Wikipedia:
Though the term seems to ...According to Wikipedia:<br /><br />Though the term seems to be of uncertain origin with common assumptions suggesting it represents a contraction of "footwork" or a portmanteau of the words "twist" and "jerk", the Oxford Dictionaries blog says "the most likely theory is that it is an alteration of work, because that word has a history of being used in similar ways, with dancers being encouraged to "work it". The "t" could be a result of blending with another word such as twist or twitch."[3] There is evidence from ethnographic interviews in New Orleans that the term began as street language in New Orleans with the rise of the local hip hop music known as bounce.[4] Since the late 1990s, twerking was associated[by whom?] with bounce music of Southern hip hop and was disseminated via mainstream hip hop videos and popular video-sharing sites since the mid-2000s. In 2013, twerk was added to the Oxford Dictionary Online.[5] According to Oxford dictionary, the word has been around for 20 years. The word was a runner-up in the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013.[6]Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-69757614693479331212016-02-05T08:19:48.594-06:002016-02-05T08:19:48.594-06:00'Twerking' is one of those words that seem...'Twerking' is one of those words that seems to me to have appeared <i>ex nihilo</i>: certainly they may be jerks (do I have that part of the formation history right?) but I can't figure out what the 'tw' is sourced from. Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.com