Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 A musical word today... Bachismo - The lamentable tendency to play Baroque organ pieces on heavy metal guitar . Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Great word...terriffic sound! Is that hobby of yours, Phil? Lamentable? Oh, prob. not then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I can't quite get the guitar reference! I can only think of gismo, which makes me think of mechanical organs or those awful programmable organs which don't need an organist! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I think you're looking for something cleverer than it is, Ginette! the guitar reference is simply the word "machismo" - applied to the sweaty, muscly, strutting "hard men" of heavy metal guitardom! as for organists... you've presumably heard the old joke - "what's the differenec between and organist and a terrorist?" (answer at the end of this post!) We're fortunate enough to have three organists - but (you may be horrified) - we also use a midi player to play backing tracks for worship music not designed for the organ. However good the organist is, "Shine, Jesus, Shine" sounds naff on a pipe organ!!! veering of on another sidetrack - I'm fortunate enough to be singing Faure's Requiem next week with a Dagenham Choir - I have tenor and Baritone solos. (I can't really reach the tenor ones as well as I'd like - but we don't have another tenor soloist - so it's tough!) I could sing Faure all day (when I'm not singing Vivaldi, that is!) anyway - I predict a miracle toast revelation later in the day (perhaps several!) Phil answer to joke: "you can negotiate with a terrorist!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 you've presumably heard the old joke - "what's the differenec between and organist and a terrorist?"(answer at the end of this post!) We're fortunate enough to have three organists - but (you may be horrified) - we also use a midi player to play backing tracks for worship music not designed for the organ. However good the organist is, "Shine, Jesus, Shine" sounds naff on a pipe organ!!! veering of on another sidetrack - I'm fortunate enough to be singing Faure's Requiem next week with a Dagenham Choir - I have tenor and Baritone solos. (I can't really reach the tenor ones as well as I'd like - but we don't have another tenor soloist - so it's tough!) I could sing Faure all day (when I'm not singing Vivaldi, that is!) Yes, I've heard the joke! My organist just does what I tell him! (OH) He does a very good 'Shine Jesus shine' on a pipe organ, but his leg and hip hurt afterwards with all those quavers in the bass! We also have an 'orchestra' once a month and the aforementioned song sounds great with a bass guitar, double bass and contra-bassoon chugging away on the bottom! 'We'll walk the land' also goes well (as do many other things!) In July, someone else has chosen the hymns for that service and I am currently working on an arrangement of the Dambuster's March. I'm afraid it makes me cringe and the words don't even scan very well with it. I've learnt to suffer with a smile though! Fauré's requiem! I adore the 'libera me'. I would say it's my favourite bit, but I love the 'In paradisum' too and probably all of it. It was one of my set works for 'O' level music - very lucky for me as I knew it inside out! Is the tenor part at the beginning of the Agnus Dei? I thought this was intended to be sung by all the tenors, but I guess if they aren't 'real' tenors this could be quite chronic! We used Fauré's requiem as the communion setting on All Soul's Day one year. It was really lovely to sing it within the context of a service, rather than as a performance. Good luck with it Phil! We're working on 'locus iste' by Bruckner - absolutely gorgeous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley-Jean Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 A wonderful piece of music Phil, how lucky you are to have a good voice. I love Vivaldi, Handel, Bach and Haydn, Mozart, Albinoni. Anything baroque, out with the CD's today I think The Devil doesn't have all the best tunes does he/she Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I love Faure too, believe it or not (as I'm a total pagan these days), I sang the soprano solo in it at school. I've still got it on vinyl and haul it out every now and then to sing along to - can't get those high notes any more though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I am currently working on an arrangement of the Dambuster's March. I'm afraid it makes me cringe and the words don't even scan very well with it. I've learnt to suffer with a smile though! me too! would that be "God is our strength and refuge"? I can never quite resist the temptation to stick my arms out and pretend to be a plane - flying round the pews... keeps the punters awake, though, but probably distracts from the sentiment of the words! Fauré's requiem! I adore the 'libera me'. I would say it's my favourite bit, but I love the 'In paradisum' too and probably all of it. It was one of my set works for 'O' level music - very lucky for me as I knew it inside out! Is the tenor part at the beginning of the Agnus Dei? I thought this was intended to be sung by all the tenors, but I guess if they aren't 'real' tenors this could be quite chronic! quite! that is the section - and it does go very high - I can reach the notes (at the very, very top end of my range) but not with sufficient strength/confidence to add much light and shade... still - the "carrot" of singing the Libera Me and the Offertorium was enough to persuade me to risk sounding like a strangled cat in front of a large audience!! I've never sung any Brookner - I think I shall go and look that up - Locus Iste. Our choir master doesn't really like people suggesting what we sing - he's quite precious about the repertoire - but I did successfully suggest singing a selection from "The Armed Man" (Karl Jenkins) for the choirs 40th anniversary (and also the 40th anniversary of their twinning with a German choir which they started immediately after the war..) - we will go to Germany and perform it there next year... (though most of the German choir have died off now... Anyway - I'm glad I chose a musical word of the day now! Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 A wonderful piece of music Phil, how lucky you are to have a good voice. that might be a slight exaggeration! Being "best available at the time" might be closer to the mark! My missus has a great voice, though - she's a proper soloist - Welsh Soprano - gorgeous!! (and she plays the harp!) I love Vivaldi, Handel, Bach and Haydn, Mozart, Albinoni. Anything baroque, out with the CD's today I think The Devil doesn't have all the best tunes does he/she Phil indeed not! But the tunes that William Booth's Salvation army then thought were "the best tunes" were all the popular drinking songs of their day!! - to which they proceeded to set reams and reams of horrid hymn-words full of blood and impenetrable theological jargon!! - still much loved by womens guilds across the land!! he certainly wasn't referring to anything Baroque... I hope your house is filled with soothing Baroque sounds for the rest of the day! Phil PS If it aint baroque - don't fix it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 The Devil doesn't have all the best tunes does he/she Phil He has *some* of them though..... Currently playing: AC/DC's Highway To Hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 The Devil doesn't have all the best tunes does he/she Phil He has *some* of them though..... Currently playing: AC/DC's Highway To Hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 In a rocking mood then Hon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I;m in full "air guitar" mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 The Devil doesn't have all the best tunes does he/she Phil He has *some* of them though..... Currently playing: AC/DC's Highway To Hell. have you got your school uniform on?? Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 have you got your school uniform on?? Phil Complete with cap and obligatory sneer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 have you got your school uniform on?? Phil Complete with cap and obligatory sneer! Not sure we need to hear about your *ahem* strange fancies..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Bet that's a sight Does it still fit then????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Oh good, back on topic with a guitar. Bruckner Motets: try CDA66062 on Hyperion . Sung by the Corydon singers. Locus iste a Deo factus est. inaestimabile sacramentum irreprehensibilis est. You can download the score from www.cpdl.org, though there is a rhythm mistake in the tenor part and a wrong note in the bass part near the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 That's attractive Graham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 that's Bachismo Unless I'm very much mistaken that's a photo of Angus Young (AC/DC lead guitarist with his Gibson SG.. famous, amongst other things, for his "spasm" move) imagine that posture, that guitar and that facial expression - but he is playing 'Brandenburg' Concerto No.2 in F Major.. that - would be Bachismo.. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Enough already! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 sorry.... I thought this was the place for general off-topic chat?? do you mean enough talk about music or enough "word of the day"? Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Bachismo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
