Friday, August 27, 2021

One . . .

 . . . more thing

Just one more thing,
Let me say again,
If I repeat myself
Every now and then,
Please excuse me
Cause the where and when
Confuses me on the start and end.




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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Rage . . .

 

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Take a breath
You must chill.
Nothing's worth
Such a drill. 
Your blood pressure
will rampage
If you can't keep control
Of your very own rage.



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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Tempo . . .

 . . . tempo, tempo


Many things play crucial roles
In creating a musical tune.
There's instrumentation, melody, lyrics;
Ambience, mood. 
Through all these you must tiptoe.
But do not neglect 
The importance of tempo.


(Spencer's Mambo at 150bpm)


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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Sensitive . . .


'Sensitive flower',
I may have said once
In reference to
How you were acting.
At the time it seemed fitting
When your drama upstaged 
The event that had actually occurred.
I thought I was clever,
At the time, I would say.
Looking back now however,
Maybe I was remiss
And insensitive in my own way.




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Monday, August 23, 2021

Origins . . .

 

I do not harbor a burning desire to be made aware of the origins of songs when hearing them in performance by the author. As a writer of them, I can honestly say they come from any direction at any time, generally uninvited, and mostly unexplained. Sometimes I can remember some circumstances surrounding the creation of a song. Many times I cannot. To hear such details painstakingly elucidated during a performance is, to me, not particularly enjoyable nor enlightening. As a creator of music, I would venture to say that the story (feeling, emotion etc.) that a listener perceives when hearing one of my songs is by far more important than the gory details of how the song came to be. Granted, multiple hearings must occur in order for a song to become familiar and be remembered. But something should 'hook' the listener on first listen to capture the imagination be it lyric, melody, tempo, or phrasing. On rare occasions, some historical information can be of interest, but the first and early public presentations of original songs need not include these presentations, as a rule, for every song being sung.



(Thanks to Chicago circa 1971)



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Sunday, August 22, 2021

The Most . . .

. . . and the best. 

(from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens) 
". . . He was sententious and didactic that night. If he had been simply loving, he would have done Little Dorrit more good; but she accepted him as he was - when had she not accepted him as he was! - and made the most and best of him. . . Little Dorrit then put her arm round her father's neck, to bid him good night. . . "

The Winner - Kris Kristofferson




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Saturday, August 21, 2021

Sententious . . .

. . . and didactic

Sententious
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Didactic
act oc, backtick, back tuck, lactic, practic, practick, tactic, taktik, apractic, atactic, climactic, ecphractic, emphractic, galactic, lapactic, phylactic, protactic, stalactic, synactic, syntactic, aerotactic, asyntactic, ataractic, catallactic, cataphractic, chemotactic, chiropractic, geotactic, hydrotactic, hypotactic, isotactic, malolactic, morphallactic, paralactic, parallactic, paratactic, phonotactic, phyllotactic, profalactic, profilactic, prophylactic, saccholactic, sarcolactic, subclimactic, thermotactic, thigmotactic, anagalactic, anaphylactic, anticlimactic, antigalactic, autodidactic, extragalactic, heterotactic, intergalactic, intragalactic, meritocractic, morphosyntactic, phygogalactic, stereotactic, syndiotactic, chemoprophylactic 


The Name Game - Shirley Ellis




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