If Coco were willing to ignore my own advice this would have been posted on the 8 September, but to have done so would be rather like a prime minister ignoring the law and refusing to obey the bill that the parliament had passed even though it had been lawfully enacted. In such circumstances Coco would deserve the most severe of censures, however, fearing an orthographic mistake more than fearing censure, Coco deferred this post to an otherwise opportune time.
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Ticky-tacky
Gaudiness
Gaudeamus igitur
Student games at the First Viennese School
Things you might need to know.
- Buxtehude was Bach’s mentor.
- Buxtehude called Bach The Master, and nobody disagreed.
- Mahler was a superb master of key and modulation.
- Bruckner was a superb organist, so much so that it has been said that when he played the orchestra he made it sound like an organ.
- Schubert knew how to modulate but never wrote a successful fugue in his life.
- Palestrina was the father of counterpoint. If it could be counterpointed, then Palestrina knew how to do it, even if he had deemed it would have been quite inappropriate to have done so for his audiences.
- Paul McCartney is a successful song writer unlike Schubert but he neither knew how to write a fugue nor how to modulate, though he could change key.
It was at a gathering of music students and staff of the first Viennese school that the game gained great popularity. It was very much as all student games are full of challenges, where penalties and rewards were handed out to the amusement and humiliation of those who were willing to complete and also on those who refused the invitation to do so. The game was very simple. It was to right(sic.) a fugue. The fugue would be five minutes long, no more no less.
Continue readingSaruva – Namaskāram
சருவ லோகாதிபா, நமஸ்காரம்! சருவ சிருஷ்டிகனே, நமஸ்காரம்! தரை, கடல், உயிர், வான், சகலமும் படைத்த தயாபர பிதாவே, நமஸ்காரம்! திரு அவதாரா, நமஸ்காரம்! ஜெ௧த் திரட்சகனே, நமஸ்காரம்! தரணியில் மனுடர் உயிர் அடைந்தோங்கத் தருவினில் மாண்டோய், நமஸ்காரம்! பரிசுத்த ஆவி, நமஸ்காரம்! பரம சற்குருவே, நமஸ்காரம்! அரூபியாய் அடியார் அகத்தினில் வசிக்கும் அரியசித்தே சதா நமஸ்காரம் முத்தொழிலோனே, நமஸ்காரம்! மூன்றில் ஒன்றோனே நமஸ்காரம்! கர்த்தாதி கர்த்தா, கருணை சொருபா, நித்ய திரியேகா, நமஸ்காரம்.
Lord of all the worlds, we offer you our praise!
Creator of creation, we offer you our praise!
Father of all mercies, who created all there is
in the earth, the sea, and life and sky, we offer you our praise!
O Divine Incarnation, we offer you our praise!
Creator of ev’rything, we offer you our praise!
For the sake of humankind you took flesh to yourself,
To die on the painful tree for us, we offer you our praise!
Holy Spirit, Lord of life, we offer you our praise!
Supreme God and good Teacher, we offer you our praise!
O Invisible One, who dwells in the hearts of all your servants,
God, the Most Excellent One, we offer you our praise!
Triune One of glory, we offer you our praise!
One in Three, Trunity, we offer you our praise!
Lord of lords, and Lord of mercy, God of gods,
And King of kings, O eternal Trinity, we offer you our praise!
First heard by Coco in CSI East Parade Church in Bangalore
Words:
Music: Mr. Grace
Translation: DeepL.com (free version) then made to fit by Coco
The copyright of the notation of the music is held by Stuart Moffatt (© 2014.
The midi file was produced using Noteworthy Composer.
The mp3 was produced using Myriad software.
Also on CPDL and NWC Scriptorium
Moonlit night: Zhang Ruoxu
春江花月夜，张若虚
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In separation the moon understands our longing –
So it was said, but in the days of separation what goes through one’s head?
A Chinese author, 张若虚, expressed it in this way:
Continue readingTransfigured night: Richard Dehmel
Together they watched the moon –
And in the days of confession what must the response be?
A German author, Dehmel, expressed it in this way:
Continue readingCome, ye sinners: Joseph Hart
親愛罪人，請你來
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The only sensible thing to do –
So it was said, but in the days of separation what must one do?
A British author, Joseph Hart, expressed it in this way:
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Sinner is
Sinner is your heart oppressed
Sinner, is thy heart at rest?
Is thy bosom void of fear?
Art thou not by guilt oppressed?
Speaks not conscience in thine ear?
Can this world afford thee bliss?
Can it chase away thy gloom?
Flattering, false and vain it is;
Tremble at the worldling’s doom!
Think, O sinner, on thy end,
See the judgement day appear.
Thither must thy spirit wend,
There thy righteous sentence hear.
Wretched, ruin’d, helpless soul,
To a Saviour’s blood apply;
He alone can make thee whole,
Fly to Jesus, sinner fly!
Words: Charles H Spurgeon. Music: Coco.
The copyright of this arrangement of the music is held by Stuart Moffatt (© 2011).
The midi file was produced using Noteworthy Composer.
The mp3 was produced using Myriad software.
Also on CPDL and NWC Scriptorium