Questions of a musical nature

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• April 30, 2007
  10:11 pm

  ahem. *hides bushing checks

  Foist on my pitard!

  – R.T.
• April 30, 2007
  10:14 pm

  sorry; “petard” (worth looking up, DictonaryLovers)

  – R.T.
• April 30, 2007
  11:27 pm

  I do not remember that at all. I do remember the organ though.

  Was salmon on the menu?

  – jesse
• May 1, 2007
  11:45 pm

  Self-righteous song(s)…

  Romulus - Sufjan Stevens

  Certainly critical…I guess criticism doesn’t automatically equal self-righteousness, but here goes:

  re his Mum :

  “We saw her once last fall.
  Our grandpa died in a hospital gown.
  She didn’t seem to care.
  She smoked in her room and colored her hair.
  I was ashamed, I was ashamed of her”

  – skipthefirsthalf
• May 1, 2007
  11:57 pm

  I could perhaps recount an instance of anti-sprezzatura…

  I recall an instance in the distant past when yours truly was playing piano in the Royal South Street Competitions (i.e. the Ballarat Eisteddfodd). I was playing a Bach prelude, which had a continuous driving rhythm, which meant that if you stemmed the flow at all and broke the continuity, it was very hard to restart and get back on track. Which of course was what happened…I kept stopping and restarting and finally stumbled my way through it. Despite my fervent wishes, the stage didn’t open and swallow me.

  If sprezzatura is seeming effortlessness, with the effort hidden from view…well, if I may use an architectural analogy, this experience was all exposed beams and crumbling flying buttresses!

  – skipthefirsthalf
• May 3, 2007
  10:50 am

  On the topic of self-righteous songs …

  Here is the mother of all of them, “I know there’s an answer” by the Beach Boys. It’s on the Pet Sounds album which has a distinctly self-righteous feeling overall in my opinion.

  Anyway, it’s home to such gems as;

  I know so many people who think they can do it alone
  They isolate their heads and stay in their safety zones

  Now what can you tell them
  And what can you say that won’t make them defensive

  Now how can I come on
  And tell them the way that they live could be better

  I know there’s an answer
  I know now but I have to find it by myself

  – jesse
• May 3, 2007
  7:13 pm

  um…
  skinofarobot Already said that you nonce!

  – Copy Cat From Ballarat
• May 3, 2007
  7:31 pm

  I would suggest, with some interest in the topic, that the term “anti-Sprezzatura ” might in fact denote an attempt to make something that IS otherwise Easy, Dumb or Lame-O, appear to be Difficult, Virtuoso or Worthy…
  (a fairly common pursuit in this world, wouldnt you agree?)

  possibly we could nomenclate (is that a word?) Skip’s recounted episode as having a SANS-SPREZZATURA vibe;
  “Spretsaturus Nullus”; Asprezzatura; or in the modern vernacular……..”oops”

  – realistic Tears
• May 4, 2007
  12:01 am

  well … that’s embarrassing.

  mines bigger though and makes use of the lovely
  < *blockquote*> function.

  – jesse
• May 4, 2007
  11:03 am

  I have a couple of self-righteous songs, but I’m not sure if they are perhaps just trying to be Heart-felt:

  Sting - Russians:

  “Mr. Reagan says we will protect you
  I don’t subscribe to this point of view
  Believe me when I say to you
  I hope the Russians love their children too”

  Madonna - Sky fits heaven:

  “Hand fits giving so do it
  That’s what the Gospel said to me
  Life fits living so let your judgments go
  That’s how our future should be”

  and I can’t think of any specific egs but I’m sure every second song by U2 is self-righteous.

  – å¬îçé

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