[Rhodes22-list] One of My Favorites

Mon Jun 6 10:47:22 EDT 2011

Easy for you to say!  I don't claim any proficiency with guitar... but I did spend a lot of time and energy on it ;-)  Brain wasn't wired for it...

Cheers!
John Lock
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s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22 
Lake Sinclair, GA
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On Jun 5, 2011, at 20:43, Slim Chance wrote:

> John. Re music theory:  It's simple.  All it is is turning what we hear into
> words.  Like a foreign language, it has a "spoken form" and we all know what
> music speaks.  But can we become "literate" and learn the written form and
> all the terms related.  It's no more complicated than that, but there's a
> lot to it, like any language.  I studied classical guitar extensively myself
> and I know that it's mostly Spanish, but it's all the same.  We have these
> terms and codes like PIMA (Pulgar, indicio, medio, anular) that have to be
> decoded and are easily understood.  Childsplay, right?
> 
> Slim
> 
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:17 PM, John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com> wrote:
> 
>> Slim,
>> 
>> I took classical guitar lessons for 15 years and on "slow days" my teacher
>> would throw in music theory.  I never did get it, even though the words made
>> sense.  'Course mine was all Spanish based rather than Russian, but the
>> cultural bias is undeniable.... as it should be.
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> John Lock
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
>> Lake Sinclair, GA
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 5, 2011, at 17:30, Slim Chance wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello, Lee.  It's hard to imagine and silly to think about Foxworthy
>> taking
>>> anything so seriously as playing the flute in the orchestra, but he's all
>> I
>>> could think about while watching that guy.  So 70s!
>>> 
>>> Re Tchaikovsky, The Russians tried not to like him because his
>> compositions
>>> were so Germanic -- sort of like Beethoven -- and not at all Russian.
>> They
>>> saw him as something of a turncoat.  In fact he spurred a movement of
>> other
>>> Russian composers, e.g., Rimsky-Korsekov, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Balakirev
>> and
>>> Qui to form what became know as the "Mighty Five" who undertook to write
>>> specifically Russian music.  Nevertheless Tchaikovsky continued to win
>> over
>>> the hearts of people with his wonderful sense of melody, imagination,
>>> orchestration, etc. and the nation was rocked by his death at age 53.  A
>>> controversy to this day, some say he died of Cholera and others say
>> suicide
>>> because of his admitted homosexuality.  But, yeah, I love his stuff too!
>>> 
>>> A little tidbit on typical Russian melody:  The Russian language has no
>>> articles -- "a" or "the" -- so when we say "The cup is on a table" they
>>> would say "Cup is on table."   Western European melodies, both folk
>> melodies
>>> and formal classical melodies we often use "pick-up" notes. For example
>> in
>>> "Happy Birthday"  the "Happy" is a pick-up and "Birth" comes in on beat
>>> one.  Or in "Amazing Grace" the "A" is a pick-up and "Maz" is beat one.
>>> Still with me?  The technical musical term for this is called an
>> anacrusis.
>>> When we say "The cup is on a table" the '"the" is like a pick-up and
>> "table"
>>> is beat one.  Russian melodies rarely use pick-up notes in their melodies
>>> and most often begin right on beat one so that  parallels their language
>> as
>>> it should.  In "Cup is on table"  "Cup" is beat one.  Tchaikovsky's
>> melodies
>>> are filled with pick-ups therfore very un-Russian.
>>> 
>>> Class dismissed.
>>> 
>>> Slimsky Slimsnakovskya  8-)
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Leland <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Slim,
>>>> 
>>>> Excellent--thanks for sharing.  "You may be a redneck" if you associate
>>>> Foxworthy with Bernstein, although the resemblance is uncanny.
>>>> 
>>>> We had two classes in school where they would take a picture of each
>> class
>>>> and if someone was in your seat every time you received an "A" and for
>> each
>>>> class you missed you could make it up with a short paper.  The classes
>> were
>>>> Theater Appreciation and Music Listen Lab.  Unfortunately I mistakenly
>>>> enrolled in Music Appreciation which was absolutely one of the most
>>>> difficult and time-consuming classes I ever took.  In retrospect it may
>>>> have
>>>> been the most useful class because I've spent far more time listening to
>>>> classical music than using anything else I learned in college.  I still
>>>> love
>>>> Rock-n-Roll but it's tough to beat Tchaikovsky's greatest hits.
>>>> 
>>>> Lee
>>>> 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
>>>> Kent Island, MD
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Slim Chance wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some of you remember me as a rocker but I grew up with a classical
>>>>> background.  Back in the the 60s There was a weekly TV program called
>>>>> Leonard Bernstein's Young Peoples' Concert which I never missed.  I
>>>>> believe
>>>>> LB to be arguably the greatest American musician of all.  Maybe Louis
>>>>> Armstrong, Bernstein, Armstrong, Bernstein Armstrong.  Obviously for
>>>>> different reasons.  But check this out and please also watch the second
>>>>> part
>>>>> where he conducts the reprise with his face alone.  This video also
>>>>> features
>>>>> Jeff Foxworthy on flute!
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlURvraEmeY
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