As you know there were modes used extensively in the Middle Ages, e.g. Mixolydian, Locrian, Dorian, Phrygian, Aeolian, Ionian, Lidian.

However, musicologist discovered recently another mode.

It's called "com"

Studlover (imported) wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:25 am As you know there were modes used extensively in the Middle Ages, e.g. Mixolydian, Locrian, Dorian, Phrygian, Aeolian, Ionian, Lidian.

However, musicologist discovered recently another mode.

It's called "com"

Ok, so I admit that I have 'ducks disease', but this has gone miles over my head.

LOL

PS. For those that don't know, if you have 'ducks disease' your arse is too close to the ground! I can make 5ft 5inches if I wear three pairs of thick socks.

colin (imported) wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:06 pm Ok, so I admit that I have 'ducks disease', but this has gone miles over my head.

LOL

PS. For those that don't know, if you have 'ducks disease' your arse is too close to the ground! I can make 5ft 5inches if I wear three pairs of thick socks.

Colin, I don't feel so bad now about the other link going over my head.

OK..here's how you catch on to the joke.

We are discussing "mode" in music history.

So, the newly "discovered mode" is the "Com"

So, say the two words together and you should get:

ready???? (oh I am gonna get whipped for this one)

COMMODE

What do you call it when a piano lands on a Major General?

"A flat major"

What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?

"A flat minor"

What did the MExican say when he was confronted by a burglar with a knife?

"C sharp"

Studlover (imported) wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:11 pm Colin, I don't feel so bad now about the other link going over my head.

OK..here's how you catch on to the joke.

We are discussing "mode" in music history.

So, the newly "discovered mode" is the "Com"

So, say the two words together and you should get:

ready???? (oh I am gonna get whipped for this one)

COMMODE

Don't tell me; you have a commodious chamber and a french widow in each room affording delightful prospects!

LOL

PS; given your sense of humour have you ever come across/discovered the Hoffnung Music Festivals? Although these were perpetrated in the '50s they have been transferred to CD.

They really sort out music lovers from musical snobs. I mean, when you get the likes of Elizabeth Posten, Franz Reisenstein and William Walton either writing specific pieces or performing you know that you get music of the highest quality.

I just wish that they had had video. To see Dennis Brain (who in those days was considered to be the best player of the French Horn in the world) playing part of a Leopold Mozart Horn Concerto on a garden hose would be wonderful. Apparently, he nearly strangled himself but from the sound you would not believe it.

LOL

colin (imported) wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:30 am Don't tell me; you have a commodious chamber and a french widow in each room affording delightful prospects!

LOL

PS; given your sense of humour have you ever come across/discovered the Hoffnung Music Festivals? Although these were perpetrated in the '50s they have been transferred to CD.

They really sort out music lovers from musical snobs. I mean, when you get the likes of Elizabeth Posten, Franz Reisenstein and William Walton either writing specific pieces or performing you know that you get music of the highest quality.

I just wish that they had had video. To see Dennis Brain (who in those days was considered to be the best player of the French Horn in the world) playing part of a Leopold Mozart Horn Concerto on a garden hose would be wonderful. Apparently, he nearly strangled himself but from the sound you would not believe it.

LOL

Colin, yes, I am very familiar with the Hoffnug Music Festivals. When I was a teenage, my best friend (who still is) and now a Professor of Musicology, and I would listen to those recordings for hours on end. I still remember that parody from a tenor on Wagnerian Opera when he sings to this dramatic music, "The end of day is the beginning of night." I have told my students about these recordings but they have about as much interest as an armadillo going after a frog.

How well I remember that recording of Dennis Brain. I was a pup when he wrapped his sports car around that tree. To my knowledge there still hasn't been a horn player to replace his inimitable ability.

Studlover

Slightly derailing the thread - I'm reminded of another musically humorous act, specifically the applicability to this board of Flanders' and Swann's take on the Mozart Horn Concerto, to which they sang the words "Has anyone seen my horn?"

kb57z (imported) wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:31 am Slightly derailing the thread - I'm reminded of another musically humorous act, specifically the applicability to this board of Flanders' and Swann's take on the Mozart Horn Concerto, to which they sang the words "Has anyone seen my horn?"

That one I am not familiar with.

Studlover

Studlover (imported) wrote: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:35 am That one I am not familiar with.

Studlover

Check out the Flanders and Swann entry on the Wikipedia! Flanders and Swann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders_and_Swann)

The words of the song in question are here... Ill Wind (http://www.hornplanet.com/hornpage/muse ... _wind.html)

In either december 90 or january 91 (I don't remember the date, it was snowy and near Christmas) I saw a live performance of Peter Schickele doing PDQ Bach.

It was hysterical. They did "Beethoven's 5th as a sporting event" with a local sportscaster and a cheerleaders. . They also did some chamber stuff and a few members of the orchestra came out into thte sides of the hall to listen. One of the violinists was laying on the floor laughing so hard it was just as funny as the performance.

My favorite PDQ Bach piece is the "pervertimento for bicycle, bagpipe and balloon"