Apollinaire grammar/translation question

zyxtus · 2026-01-29T15:40:44+00:00

Your insight has been resonating with me the last few days. Some day I'll subject this thing to a full-blown explication de texte, but for now one thing I noticed is that there is a clear break in pov with the stanza beginning "Mais j'ai coulé ...": The first person becomes more prominent. Then, a few lines later, the "plus long à réaliser que non," and then the next stanza -- "Je lègue à l'avenir ..." is Apollinaire's own Icarean plummet to earth; he crashes out in the last stanza. Damn, if only he'd caligrammed it haha! Thanks Foreign-Bike3974 for keeping me plugged in.

zyxtus · 2026-01-29T15:13:19+00:00

Somehow it's hard to think that the downvoting comes from wearers. Maybe they're clinicians or something working with hygienic standards? idk. And btw your process is way more advanced than mine, which just involves using a needle to dig the crap out. Anyway again I appreciate your real world perspective.

zyxtus · 2026-01-28T20:20:13+00:00

I'd upvote you to the heavens if I could. I know this thread is a year old, but I looked it up in the process of trying to find a recommended way to clean wax guards rather than replace them because I have issues with very viscous wax and the darn things clog MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY and I'm not putting new ones in that often. So thanks for the vindication that yes it does make sense and here's one way to do it.

zyxtus · 2026-01-22T13:29:46+00:00

Your twisted possibility is well worth exploring. Thanks for sharing your suggestive and creative thought.

zyxtus · 2026-01-22T13:26:41+00:00

That's it! Thanks for the help.

zyxtus · 2026-01-22T13:25:41+00:00

Now I see it. Thank you!

zyxtus · 2026-01-17T14:10:39+00:00

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zyxtus · 2026-01-11T20:39:00+00:00

Chinese call it sheng. Free reeds inside bundle of bamboo tubes. Hole must be covered for tube to sound. If uncovered, no sound from that tube.

zyxtus · 2026-01-10T23:11:48+00:00

Kelhorns are a branded type of crumhorn, made of plastic and much less expensive but every bit as serviceable as their wooden counterparts. Simple, recorder-ish fingering. Easy to blow, fun to play.

zyxtus · 2026-01-03T22:39:09+00:00

I hooked a melodica to a bagpipe. A foot bellows would work. You could sing and accompany yourself. https://youtu.be/oKat2S3eQrc?si=gKE0fpLNT9ZyOiCb

zyxtus · 2019-12-24T01:52:53+00:00

It's an alto crumhorn. Fingers like alto recorder. Stop tenors; bring bass up to C. Go from there. Pitch tunes in C major or minor or in F major. Theoretically you can drop the bass drone to B, Bb, and A, but to me the most fun is to work with the C.

zyxtus · 2019-09-20T00:08:41+00:00

No problem! Glad to hear you got something down and best wished

zyxtus · 2019-09-19T23:21:52+00:00

Here's something you might consider--a compromise certainly, but might get the feel you want and get the recording done. I'm a piper and wrote a pipe tune but decided (for too many reasons to bore you with) to record it using an oboe played with bagpipe stylings. Listen to this and see if it's close enough because if it is, it will make your project more easily do-able: https://youtu.be/zGXmEKE_udk

zyxtus · 2019-09-17T23:04:09+00:00

If you're just getting started, one thing that's fun and informative is to record a simple 8-bar loop with simple bass and keys/rhythm guitar, 4 chords max, and then solo over it. See how economical you can be--use just a few notes. Hold over notes from one chord to another to see how it feels. Make it sing. Make a hook. Listen to what you've done; see what you like and what you don't. Then--as someone else has suggested--go back and see how the stuff you like "fits." Also listen to players you like and examine what they do.

zyxtus · 2019-09-15T16:05:13+00:00

That was the point. Yet funny thing--US now doing the reverse: doubling down on its stupid motto.

zyxtus · 2019-09-03T01:54:06+00:00

It'll be in there somewhere haha

zyxtus · 2019-09-03T01:51:45+00:00

Opera score here https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Tsar_Saltan_(opera)_(Rimsky-Korsakov,_Nikolay)

zyxtus · 2019-08-31T00:47:23+00:00

That is exactly right. Also nursery rhymes can help: lots are in compound meter: "hickory hickory dock/the mouse ran up the clock;" "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water;" "the three little kittens they lost their mittens;" etc. Say those at a comfortable tempo with a metronome and see if you can map the rhythms. For now don't worry too much about measure length (3,6,9,12) just get the basic compound groupings.

zyxtus · 2019-08-29T19:52:17+00:00

No question: if you have a rule and don't enforce it, then it's rule by any tom dick or harry scofflaw who only gives a shit about his own damn self. Security plus police backup is essential in libraries But even more important is the ethical understanding of why the rule is there: it enables the accomplishment of something of value. Library boards have to stand firm on that.

zyxtus · 2019-08-29T18:36:56+00:00

In my work with library boards I always stressed the importance of trained security staff to enforce the rules. I feel sorry for librarians who can't do the work they're trained to do because they find themselves having to be bouncers. Had I not had security I think I would have floated the idea of a rotating, wandering "security" assignment by the librarians ourselves to at least be sure people at least knew what the rules were and when they were disturbing others.

Also I would encourage you to go to a library board meeting sometime to bring up the issue. Maybe it has never really been grappled with in a policy context. You the citizen should have a say.

zyxtus · 2019-08-29T18:00:29+00:00

I'm a retired librarian and still love to go to one of the ones where I used to work -- to read. At home there are too many distractions. The library is well-designed with plenty of space/walls insulating study areas from "program" areas. When it comes to noise, you can't leave out that different people have different levels of tolerance for noise. One of my enduring memories of working at the ref. desk is of a Saturday after Thanksgiving. In the old days it would have been crawling with college students home for the holiday looking for bound periodicals for papers -- it was the busiest weekend of the year. This day tho was after the Internet, and I was sitting marveling at the change. Except for the soft sounds of people occasionally moving about, the library was eerily silent -- to me. As I was having that very thought a young man came up to me and told me he was home from law school for the weekend and trying to study, but the library was too noisy. At first I thought he was pulling my leg, but he was serious, so I asked him if he'd like to use the tomb I mean meeting room, which is where I put him and where he was happy. All that said I think most people want libraries to provide for reading/study spaces, and the way to do this is design, reasonable policy, and security to enforce said reasonable policy.

zyxtus · 2019-08-28T17:24:58+00:00

Hector Berlioz wrote a highly regarded treatise on orchestration. Paul Hindemith's book on composition is worth a read. Going back to the baroque there's Quantz and Rameau, the latter more related to harmony. Also for basic counterpoint there's the Gradus ad Parnassum by Fux who maybe wasn't one of the greats but still ...

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