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Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
02:05
Looks like we'll have a pretty good election!
 
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Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
04:25
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A: Time signatures and music

North LæraðrThe question is worded a bit strangely, it really depends on what exactly the question is asking. I think the better way to ask the question is "When is the usage of a time signature change inappropriate", since it's easier to explain when a time signature change is non-standard, rather than "are...

Shameless plug: My first answer on SE in a very, very long time
verbose
verbose
05:21
@PrinceNorthLæraðr I enjoyed reading it and listening to the example
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
@verbose Hehe, thank you
More shameless plugging: if you're interested in checking out some actual compositions of mine, you can listen to one here
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
10:20
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Q: What kind of failures of merchants does Thoreau describe in this passage?

John SmithIn the first chapter of Walden; or Life in the Woods, Thoreau says: What has been said of the merchants, that a very large majority, even ninety-seven in a hundred, are sure to fail, is equally true of the farmers. With regard to the merchants, however, one of them says pertinently that a great ...

henry-david-thoreau walden
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
11:38
The Arthur Koestler topic challenge ended yesterday.
Ongoing topic challenges: Hayy ibn Yaqdhan / Philosophus Autodidactus and Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
12:27
@Randal'Thor best-of?
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
18:27
@PrinceNorthLæraðr Time signatures: that always makes me think of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (one of the works performed at the first concert I ever attended).
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
@Tsundoku ah, yes, that's quite notorious
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
Before that, most of the classical music I had heard was from the 18th and 19th centuries, so The Rite of Spring really blew my socks off.
Of the first 15 CDs I bought (remember, that was the 1990s), 7 or 8 were Stravinsky recordings :-D
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
I'm sure! Rite of Springs is one of my all time favorite compositions ever
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
It's one of those works that I wish I could "unhear" so I could get blown over by it again.
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
It truly is a beautiful piece of work
I love the engaging auditory storytelling that Stravinsky constructs
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
18:34
He also does that in a number of other works, such as Petrushka and The Firebird.
His Oedipus Rex, which is less well known, is also rather special.
 
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verbose
21:48
@PrinceNorthLæraðr Thanks! I enjoyed listening to that one too.
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
@verbose Thanks!
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What's Starling Quasar?
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
That's my pseudonym I used for this piece
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oic
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
It's a pun on the title because like
"Star"ling sounds like Sterling, and Quasar is some astronomy related term
verbose
verbose
21:51
Twinkling and star?
ah
what does Sterling have to do with it? I do not comprehend :(
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
Oh nothing
verbose
verbose
Unless you get paid royalties in UK currency
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
Sterling is just a name of someone I know and Starling sounded like Sterling, so yeah
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
I fear a quasar's royalties would disappear into a black hole.
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
Hehe
Into the unknowwwwwwwwn
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
21:56
Where no man has gone before...
Librarian
Librarian
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Q: Announcing the May–June 2023 topic challenge: the works of Robert Louis Stevenson

TsundokuIn accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is time to announce the May–June 2023 topic challenge. Based on the number of votes (+7, -2), our 68th topic challenge will be...

discussion topic-challenge
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
@Librarian Also the last community event created by me.
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
No :(
sad
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@Tsundoku 😢
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
Because only mods can create community events ...
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
22:02
But alas, many lasts can lead to great new beginnings :)
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
I can still create meta posts for the topic challenges; I also did that before the previous election. I just won't be able to create community events, but that shouldn't be a big deal.
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
On a tangent question, Area 51 seems to be really dying
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
It's dying in the sense that new suggestions just don't reach the Beta stage anymore. You need an existing community that is willing to move to Stack Exchange, otherwise the proposal goes nowhere.
Prince North Læraðr
Prince North Læraðr
Mm, I see
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
The Arthur Koestler reading challenge generated only six questions, but five of them received at least one answer and three of them became HNQ. These are rather high ratios.
So it was the most successful topic challenge since Ukrainian literature (24 questions) last summer.

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