But that bloody dawn coming up like thunder is driving me crackers

[sovay]

Oley Speaks' popular setting of "Mandalay" and Kurt Weill's "Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib" are melodically similar enough that I can sing them interleavingly, but not such that I think, even taking into account Brecht's well-tracked admiration for Kipling, it means anything.

This has been your useless realization for the night.

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Cool. Do you start with the same song every time, or are they perfectly miscible?

I'm wedded to the Bellamy, it seems.

Nine

[sovay]

Do you start with the same song every time, or are they perfectly miscible?

It's a recent discovery: I was walking home tonight from halfway to Woburn, singing "On the Road to Mandalay," when I got to the turn of a verse and it went straight into "Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib" without changing keys or rhythm, so I went back and laid the two songs out as side-by-side as could be done without sheet music in order to determine whether there were any similarities or whether it was just my brain. The answer seems to be a combination of both, but I can't see why the Brecht/Weill would have any reason to be intertextual with the Kipling/Speaks, so I think it's just an oddity. You can hear the likeness whichever one you start with.

I'm wedded to the Bellamy, it seems.

I had already gone through the Bellamy for "Mandalay." I'm not sure how I got there from "Waiting at the Church."

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

The one I find myself falling into is:

How are things in Glocca Morra?
There's a way, said the wise old man...

Nine

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

This follows on my discovering a note that wakanomori had written:

www.comdotcom.com

"I thought it would be a good URL," he said. "Sometimes I do that--think of things that would make good URLs."

It's nice to have hobbies, isn't it?

Now I'll have to listen to these two pieces of music...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow--I'm very musically illiterate, but I can hear how the beats of those two pieces do seem similar, and I can hear how the stressed words seem to fall in similar places (maybe that goes along with the beat), so I can understand what you're saying. Sort of the way, when we were little, we found out that you could sing "hey ho, nobody home" and "rose rose rose rose" together in a round, and it would work out.

[sovay]

It's nice to have hobbies, isn't it?

Yeah. My brain just does this sort of thing.

Sort of the way, when we were little, we found out that you could sing "hey ho, nobody home" and "rose rose rose rose" together in a round, and it would work out.

I know the first of these, but what's "Rose rose rose rose"?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it has a real name--maybe if I write out the words you'll remember/know the tune?

It goes,

Rose, rose, rose, rose
Will I ever see thee wed?
I will marry at thy will sire
Rose rose rose.

Actually, I guess "Rose" is her name, so all those roses should be capitalized.

Do you know it? The tune is similar to, but different from "Hey ho, nobody home," and they fall into a round together beautifully.

[sovay]

Do you know it? The tune is similar to, but different from "Hey ho, nobody home," and they fall into a round together beautifully.

No, I've never heard it. You will have to sing it for me sometime.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:D

It's about the only thing that I can trust myself to sing to you. it's only about five notes, and all in a range I can handle.