Congrats!
(Please PM me who you know and what their price is. )
Congrats!
After we win a couple, we will let you in the clubPowers2020 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:13 amCongrats to her indeed! On a related note, I'd love to join your family's Powerball/Mega Millions club!
Not sure of the practice in modern times outside of the U.S., but solfege goes back to the Middle Ages, originally with six notes (the first being UT rather than DO), and I'm quite sure it was relative pitch in its origins. It's always relative pitch in Sacred Harp, whether 4-shape or 7-shape traditions.Bird Lives wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:23 amOnly in America (well, not quite) because we use the "moveable do," a phrase which to me always suggests transferring liquid assets offshore for purposes of tax avoidance. (And yes, I know that "liquid assets" leaves this one wide open for Dr. Tom.)
Glad I didn't quite see that, though I was also looking for solfege. As a guitar player, I would have thought that was a reference to the CAGED system and gotten quite lost in that rabbit hole!
I also plucked out D-E-G-B-A-C on the strings, hoping it would give me some clue as to the elegant path. It just led to musical realms I'm not fond of.
You know more about this than I do. I'm just thnking of all those "Sonate en la majeur" or "Quartetto in Fa Maggiore," giving solfege names to keys we would designate with letters -- A minor, F major.ReB wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:37 amNot sure of the practice in modern times outside of the U.S., but solfege goes back to the Middle Ages, originally with six notes (the first being UT rather than DO), and I'm quite sure it was relative pitch in its origins. It's always relative pitch in Sacred Harp, whether 4-shape or 7-shape traditions.Bird Lives wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:23 amOnly in America (well, not quite) because we use the "moveable do," a phrase which to me always suggests transferring liquid assets offshore for purposes of tax avoidance. (And yes, I know that "liquid assets" leaves this one wide open for Dr. Tom.)
That was beautiful! I am married to a tenor and I love to hear him sing.Al Sisti wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 1:40 amMan... so beautiful!Joe Ross wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:17 pmYou've got every penny's worth of payback, today, Lochinvar. I haven't bought groceries and may have forgotten to feed the dog, until I remembered my son picked her up a long while ago.Al Sisti wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 11:27 am
Well thanks a boatload, Chet; I was supposed to go grocery shopping and instead I'm lost in YouTube land. Great stuff... I love belters (e.g., Idina Menzel, Linda Eder, Eydie Gorme and the little powerhouse from the Phillipines, Lea Salonga). And now a little payback for you. If you like good harmonies, check out Foxes and Fossils, starting with " "Don't Worry Baby" . And for another example of non-English-speaking mimicry, check out Leonid and Friends, a Russian band that does killer Chicago covers... here's "25 Or 6 to 4" . And now I've really got to go grocery shopping.
A bit of harmony over which I've been obsessing (trigger warning: religiousy stuff) the last few weeks, especially the note ("here") held by top tenor from 3:35 through 3:52. Some guys know how to ride out a pandemic.
Wow!
Wait! Cage is a musical term. He wrote Organ/As Slow As Possible (ASLSP). The song started in 2001 and is scheduled to have a duration of 639 years, ending in 2640. It's currently playing the 14th chord, which it will hold until Feb 25, 2022. Save the date.BethA wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:32 am I thought I saw what to do while solving the grid, found NOTES at the END of various words —
DO in IDO
LA in OFLA
SO in RATSO (though personally prefer SOL)
MI In SAMRAIMI
Translating those to the C scale spells C-A-G-E ——- WAIT IT’S A TRAP!!!!
Since I was already fixated on finding notes, the letter ones at the end of 6 clues jumped out at me next. So I took the shortcut first.
If I hadn’t thought that I knew what to do, my normal m.o. would have been to write out the long answers on a separate sheet of paper and see what popped out. Then I would hopefully have followed the intended route, and got the order instead of anagramming. After reading BarbaraK’s tip-off post that we probably had the right answer but took a shortcut, went back and did just that, later on Thursday evening.
Had tried playing the notes in the order of MELODY in case that was supposed to give us the order and confirmation click, but it didn’t seem to.
I’d never heard of that, but found it in Wikipedia! At first I thought it was some type of humor going over my head...
Well what do you know, I posted a moveable DO reference, with about the same segue, without first seeing yours. It is actually quite scary that we tend to think alike. It should certainly frighten one of us! Oh, and liquid assets, I would not even beGIN to try to dRUM up some tangential reference to alcoholic beverages. I thought about employing pharmaCOGNACy terms but that was too difficult and was afraid that if I did you would picture me in the lab sitting on the incubator hoB EERily thinking up words. So instead I'll just go down to the ocean for a harBOUR BON voyage party.Bird Lives wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:23 amOnly in America (well, not quite) because we use the "moveable do," a phrase which to me always suggests transferring liquid assets offshore for purposes of tax avoidance. (And yes, I know that "liquid assets" leaves this one wide open for Dr. Tom.)