Boléro (Littérature Française) (French Edition)
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In other words it draws dynamic volume distinctions based on the arbitrary criterion of thematic melodic structure, artificially tracing all of the dynamic borders at the beginning of the first ritornello of each of the five thematic cycles. In any case I can account for the extra bars and concomitant mathematical errors in our song.
I forgot to mention that while the naked people may not be you, and they may not be naked, the instruments are real, so far as I know. They are indeed analog images, and this is what we call virtual reality, but I'll stick with my first conclusions , which I can't remember right now. Tomorrow night I have to go see Father of Sam play at the Dardaillon, but it's only at 7pm, which means I hope they begin by eight. I can make an appearance, pay, listen to hear if his songs can inspire us, then make a quick exit. I'm not sure why I need to explain this to French people, but if I'm trying to create a document poetry or song, legal arguments against my wife, proposals for an online boutique I need electronic data, and not speech-telephone.
Forgive me, but I've just published naked pics of all of you playing musical instruments. Well, not actually naked, and it's not actually you, but you know what I mean. Please feel free to use your imagination. I have to find some way of amusing myself in the interminable time between Rose's visits.
You recall that I'm dealing with a complex table I copied from the sources of Wikipedia, and I didn't want to fuck it up. French Wikipedia has given me lots of food for thought, if that's what you'll allow me to call this gibberish. They claim there are quarter note beats in [the bars of] the piece, which is indivisible by two of our fetish numbers, 18 or 24, but is close enough to being divisible by , yielding a quotient of 6.
Please don't ask me what that means. Maybe Pierre obtained , and rounded it [down] because he was temporarily obsessed with the number 69, which I can understand given this tawdry context. Be that as it may, hereunder stand the results of my savants calculs operating on every interpretation or indicator I can find.
Let's think of it this way, if I happen to add a slideshow to this page, we won't have to trouble Murder about the rhythm. That's worth an afternoon of my work. An exchange took place between the two men backstage after the concert. According to one account Ravel said "It's too fast", to which Toscanini responded "It's the only way to save the work".
Toscanini replied "When I play it at your tempo, it is not effective", to which Ravel retorted "Then do not play it". Wait, I think I'm getting somewhere. There are 24 strokes in the ostinato pictured in Wikipedia. There are six groups of drum notes, represented in our drawing either by the 3s above the line or by the physical groupings, which don't quite correlate for reasons that really don't bother me at all. Is this just random nonsense? I've only kind of slandered you a little referring to you as "some blogger" before I bothered checking out your site.
Anyway, I've quoted your words and linked to your site from mine. It might interest you, but probably not. Scott Alexander Gabriel Reiss, father of Rose. Don't know what a slide rule is for.
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We all know I'm no good at math , but I really can't make these numbers work out. Nothing seems to be divisible by 18, much less by [oops, except for the measures, of course, which for some reason everyone else seems to call bars, but maybe there's some subtle difference I don't understand]. Rose ira en sorciere. Moi soit en boulanger comme a Halloween soit en sorciere aussi ma mere a Halloween.
Il vaut peut-etre mieux que tu te deguises aussi, car on a beau leur dire que les autres enfants vont se deguiser, cela ne se voit pas. Ce site a des idees pas mal pour creer des deguisements, si tu bricoles un peu. I'm afraid I must inform you that you've begun making some rather disturbing guest appearances on my website. The Scot has helpfully explained our nursery rhyme to my satisfaction. He sings it like this:. Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. Rice, he claims, was a cheap meal, especially as the treacle or molasses subbed for meat.
The noun "weasel" is slang for a flatiron. The verb "to pop" means to pawn. I ordered the US edition just to make sure that the Beef Burgundy recipe doesn't somehow involve treacle, and that weight isn't measured in stones. You may wonder why I didn't just order the French version, and I'll tell you.
We are buying a new cooker, a butane gas stove with one electric burner, an electric oven with "natural convection", which I think means that it's not a convection oven. This will help us bake bread and cake and cookies and quiche and many other things, possibly not beginning with the k- sound.
Rose likes to cook, and baking is about the safest kitchen activity, since it doesn't involve knives and hot liquids. The cooker the landlord lent me is calibrated for natural gas, so everything on the stove either burns or boils over, sometimes both, and the oven doesn't work at all. I bought the book in English, despite my well-known hatred of most translations, because I want to provide an English-language environment for Rose. It would just get confusing to me to read English out of a French cookbook, although I do this with the children's books at the neighborhood library.
That's also why I speak English to the bewildered children of Les Vans. I will not concede too much to the French language. I speak French to grown-ups, who make more of a pretense of caring to understand what I say.
They spark Louisa to find out more about her father, who died when she was six. SPAN or consent. Tonicity est un site d'information et de discussion, fait par ses lecteurs. The plays studied range from the thirties to the present day. All expenses related to the transportation, insurance, exhibition and security of the vehicle will be borne by the Organizer;. If Henry James, another childless Victorian bachelor, had written The Turn of the Screw from Flora's point of view, he might have earned membership in this exclusive club.
I keep thinking of this poem:. It moves me deeply, but I'm not sure why. I guess it's the depiction of sad reality in a children's rhyme, and I can't quite figure out why rice is involved, since the song seems to date back to at least the early nineteenth century, when rice might not have been a staple of the poor Englishman's diet. Can anyone explain this? Round and round the mulberry bush, The monkey chased the weasel. The monkey stopped to pull up his sock, Pop goes the weasel. There are many other charming verses and versions.
This might be better than haiku. By the way, the subject of this message is not necessarily related to the body. A sportswriter who seems to be losing his mind has often used the expression of late. I can't figure out who you are, but your Bolero page is brilliant. I can't figure out what you're selling either, but some of us might be interested, if you'll be so kind as to let us know. You can find my own peculiar little art on my website.
We would be very pleased to hear your comments. Mo Ravel sounds like a tough motherfucker. I'm glad I'm not the only one that bothers his friends about the rhythm. Tugging on the conductor's coattails doesn't sound like a safe way of getting his attention. He is armed with a baton, you recall. I bet the fl a utist hated Barenboim: Son of Mark Twain. I have no idea why she fell on this particular volume, but I can't complain about her taste in literary matters. When we were talking about Dick Wagner I had vaguely remembered, but didn't bother to look up until this morning, that Dan Peartree Barenboim was the first man to play Wagner in Israel although the Palestine Philharmonic had been happy to fulfill that role.
At least Barenboim had the balls to debate his catcalling audience in Hebrew, before playing the fucking song, Sam. The rhythm of that title, which I've written first this time, forms two perfect [rhyming] anapests, if you recall that French is an oxytonic language. I'm trying to download Dan the Man Barenboim's interpretation, but I'm open to other ideas, and don't mind paying seventy-five cents or whatever the music industry has very wisely agreed to in order for music lovers to be allowed to, um, buy music instead of stealing it, which is OK with me too.
I spent half an hour digging the Green Child out of the snow as she warmed up, then managed to get out of my parking space which Rose calls: I'm channeling my inner negatron. I swear I did not make up that name. Indeed negatron who's too lazy to check Wikipedia probably thinks I made up the whole twisted episode, and I would have, if it hadn't actually taken place. I guess I could write to the webmaster, and I will if I have to, but we need Pierre's ingenious five minutes of French, his lascivious puns, his sordid references to Bo Derek's anatomy, his learned commentary on the crescendo and lone modulation , if I recall correctly.
Please help us, Peter. Don't do it for me, of course. Do it for Rose. I'm beginning to lean toward my second backup plan, which I had discarded when I first foresaw an Alice in Wonderland page in late February. I have no idea what to do with either Debussy or Legati. Thank goodness I've got a piano teacher for Rose.
Just because I am hopelessly ignorant is no reason for my daughter to be. The second backup plan, as you may have guessed by now, is Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit, which poses very few interpretational difficulties, and no rhythmic ones. I have a feeling there's also something by Saint-Saens or someone else that might do the job, but I can't find it.
I'll listen to Pierre next week. I asked Peter to help, and help he did. He played Ligeti's Lobster Quadrille for me this morning, the first I've had time to listen all week, as we've been busy at work, so I've been going in early. As I took the Scot shopping this afternoon I told him of my surprise that Alice Liddell had grown, not taller or shorter but old, becoming a dowager socialite who looked like the late Queen Mother.
You can see her in the tiny pick I posted proudly posing in America in with a copy of the books she inspired clutched in her hands, an outrageous hat perched upon her head. For the moment I'll still leave Debussy, but I'll have to sub Ligeti, if I can't find some more information on the former music. Either way I'm happy, and Rose will be here this evening. The weather looks cold but sunny for the week-end. I also bought some Dora the Explorer Easter chocolates, so everything looks peachy. Thirteen days is an awful long time to wait. There's no way I can understand this music, except to tell speakers of English that "Sirenes" means mermaids, not Odysseus' friends.
That's why he needs me, so record the songs on your cell phone, bitch, and I'll get to work. I don't need, nor even like, CDs. He also talks like the boys in Trainspotting. His brother owns a restaurant in town where I'm not keen on eating, as it's some kind of "world food", which I don't like any more than "world music", as I carefully explained to father of Sam, who was somewhat taken aback, but he is not a man of breathtaking learning, and is about ten years younger than you, so we'll work this out.
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