Monday, October 11, 2004

homework.

Taken from J.S.Bach's Cantata BWV 105:
Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht.

Wie zittern und wanken Der Sunder Gedanken
Indem sie sich untereinander verklagen
Und wiederum sich zu entschuldigen wager.
So wird ein geangstigt Gewissen
Durch eigene Folter zerissen.

I tremble with horror beholding the wicked
for Lo, Thy commandments he daily transgresseth
the poor and the needy unjustly oppresseth.
How hardly shall they find forgiveness
who will not repent of their wickedness.

This is for my Techniques course, where I've to write stylisitically like J.S. Bach.

I wonder just how many musicians are out there, emulating the style of a dead bloke.

I've chosen the above text for my Baroque aria. Isn't it beautiful? It has lots of potential for the music and word-setting to be drama-mama.

So far, I've theatrical pauses (for Lo!) and I'm relishing every bit of the melismatic and oratorical declamations (the po-o-o-o-or and the ne-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-edy).

It's coming along morbidly, but surprisingly well.

I like.

blueprint

I will like to spend my days, as though they are my own, which I mostly end up doing in halves, for duty beckons, and I am answering its clarion call. Soon enough! I am also a veteran procrastinator.

fresh monodies

it takes two hands to clap.
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shall we dance?
huge green carpet but no greens in my pocket.
I've fallen in love again...
It's cold, wet and gray today. Absolutely miserabl...
maligned.
again.

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chasing snowy cars
cheeky lynn
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cyclist-mad bass
darling dominic
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phringe
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spector dan
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sun-sunzzz
teeny wee-nee
weeeee, leonard!
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frivolous pursuits

for shallow ppl
for very geeky ppl
for the truly bored
spun prose
binary thoughts
past imprints
some stamps
montage of images
other memories

mulling over

And there were phlegmatic souls.