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I was just wondering if anyone has recently had a reading comprehension test?

Y'all would likely fail it.

As a final shot, try reading this and figure out how it applies to music:

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DP wrote:aw, you were offended at our responses to your offensive post?
And on your way out, you still needed to take a "final shot", eh?

Gee, I thought I was the only one who is misunderstood

Durwood, you are misunderstood. Some think you're a nice guy...

sorry, couldn't resist.

Amilcare wrote:I was just wondering if anyone has recently had a reading comprehension test?Y'all would likely fail it. As a final shot, try reading this and figure out how it applies to music:

Dude, this is just a Tuba related Board, cool? If you want to be an intellectual, try going somewhere else.

In deference to your query, I posit that the dialectics of Noam Chomsky, what with it's parsing down of the English Langauge is merely an attempt to add a Schenkarian twist to words rather than music. Chomsky's study of vocal patterns across the spectrum of all languages, and then applied to music phrasing, is, to my mind, the perfect sythnesis of the two things that define a culture, its speech and it's music. The French talk in the front of their mouths with very clearly delineated and clear diction, so it would stand to reason that their music would also present this as it is part of their inherent lingual patterns (ever noticed how "crazy" the French are for extreme variances in their articulations?). We are not all French, ergo, we get by recreating our inherent speech patterns in our music. Remember, a culture is defined by its speech and music in its basest form. Your statement is too narrow in its confines to present a cogent pattern of discussion, therefore it is NOT moot. I stand on my first statement: "Who cares how you do it. If it sounds good, who's to say it's wrong".

Don't think too hard. It's music, not the Bible.

Here is a parting quote:

"If you want to understand the invisible, look carefully at the visible"- The Talmud

Chuck

P.S.- If you have time, mull this over: If a culture is defined by its music and speech, the cradle of civilization is indeed in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. If you look at inherent speech patterns and musical sounds, the lingual and music patterns of Klezmer, Baltic, Roumanina, Czech, Polish, Greek, Irani, Iraqi, Kurdish, and Russian AND their inherent languages prove that there is more than one common thread to link all these cultures together to the Tigris-Euphrates Valley Theory. The Romance languages are ENTIRELY different in their patterns, thus their music is ENTIRELY different. America is THE melting pot of all these qualities, thus NEVER exhibiting a commonality inherent in non-mixed cultures. We are the next step in the evolutionary chain of speech/music synthesis.

Very, very rarely, I kinda of miss the activation of the TubaGod.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDcrCtSfGCo" target="_blank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law" target="_blank

Even with the limited attendendance aspect of his IEP, my son's school makes special arrangements for him to take all the standardized tests, because:
1) With his migranes, he has to take on-line courses through the school, but at home. He has been de-bugging the high school curriculum (emails to his supervising teacher to the effect of, "The correct answer is not on this question of the test. It needs to be (fill in the appropriate answer to the unit of subject matter) since he was in 7th grade;
2) When he takes the preliminary standardized testing designed to inform the teachers where students may need more reinforcement before taking the MAP test (ScanTron or something like that), the test is basically a "three-wrong-in-a-row-and-you're-done." It's designed for the majority of the student body to finish up in about three days. They have to give him a full two extra days and extra levels of complexity before he reaches fallout; and
3) They come and get him for MAP testing (the required no-child-left-behind measuring test) because he makes an actual measurable difference in the overall average of his grade level. Not much, granted, but actually measureable so the school can keep their federal funding.

Chuck Jackson wrote:

Amilcare wrote:I was just wondering if anyone has recently had a reading comprehension test?Y'all would likely fail it. As a final shot, try reading this and figure out how it applies to music:

Dude, this is just a Tuba related Board, cool? If you want to be an intellectual, try going somewhere else.

...snipping some amazing stuff...

Sir,

I salute you in your reply - one of the best I have read in many years of Internet Boards!

Yay and Bravo!

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the elephant wrote:

snorlax wrote:Anchors? Away!

Aweigh.

Just picking nits! HAHAHA!!!

A few years ago, I played for an orchestra that had a theme concert about the sea. They entitled the concert "Anchors Away!" AND on their very expensive, full-color posters they had a picture of the SS Normandie. Clearly, they did not run this by anyone who knew anything about maritime history.

* The original poster will get the French connection to the SS Normandie.

Mark wrote:A few years ago, I played for an orchestra that had a theme concert about the sea. ... AND on their very expensive, full-color posters they had a picture of the SS Normandie.

Perhaps they were anticipating a more interesting performance than you thought...

windshieldbug wrote:

Mark wrote:A few years ago, I played for an orchestra that had a theme concert about the sea. ... AND on their very expensive, full-color posters they had a picture of the SS Normandie.

Perhaps they were anticipating a more interesting performance than you thought...

That may be why they thought they could throw the anchors away ...

Kevin Hendrick wrote:

windshieldbug wrote:

Mark wrote:A few years ago, I played for an orchestra that had a theme concert about the sea. ... AND on their very expensive, full-color posters they had a picture of the SS Normandie.

Perhaps they were anticipating a more interesting performance than you thought...

That may be why they thought they could throw the anchors away ...

I guess that's better than sending them to the bottom of New York Harbor.