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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
8:42 AM
It works.
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Iran has enabled YouTube access?
 
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
No, haha
YouTube oneboxing works
I can't even see the thumbnail for the video
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
In November, Russia launches its "sovereign Internet" system.
But I don't think they will block YouTube.
They do patrol it for anti-govt slogans.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
9:14 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly dots in body (52): Are there any hidden words in this sentence? by Amir Parsa on english.SE
 
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
@SmokeDetector o.O
 
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
1:43 PM
@Robusto well I don't know anything about nothing, but from who these people are and what they do, as well as from having watched this particular flutist's other performances, I would almost hazard the guess that few if any of his phrasings are actually his, but rather whatever they should be according to some book from 1725 that nobody's ever read, and that has long been superseded, as indeed the very instrument has.
 
skillpatrol
skillpatrol
Hooray!!! the Mexicans get their revenge on Trump
Anthony Joshua vs. Andy Ruiz Jr.
Anthony Joshua vs. Andy Ruiz Jr. was a heavyweight professional boxing match contested between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr. The event took place on June 1, 2019, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with Joshua's WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles on the line. Joshua was originally scheduled to face undefeated challenger Jarrell Miller, who was replaced by Ruiz after Miller failed three drug tests. Ruiz won the match via technical knockout in the seventh round. == Background == Joshua has repeatedly spoken of his desire to fight the undefeated WBC champion Wilder for all...
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:28 PM
@RegDwigнt Well, if he were playing in the echt style of the time there would have been more ornamentation, etc., which ultimately would have originated from and been informed by Sylvestro Ganassi's treatise of 200 years earlier (1535), entitled Opera Intitulata Fontegara (I couldn't find an English version on the web, sorry), a treatise on recorder playing. I found the breaths before downbeats halting, but I was careful to note that was a quibble for me, not a major objection.
The performance was definitely quite fine all around.
Sometimes performers do things that jar you from your conceptions of a piece and then persuade you to their logic (as Barenboim did in the Pathetique that I linked earlier this year); other times you just have to say we'll have to agree to disagree. This for me is one of the latter times.
Again, though, no biggie.
 
Mitch
Mitch
3:17 PM
@Robusto Music: a bunch of notes
 
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
4:45 PM
@Robusto oh yeah that is completely understood. All I'm saying is that from this layman's point of view he doesn't appear to need to take breath like ever, so if he actually does it, and does it here rather than there, it must be deliberate and informed in some way.
As to ornamentations, haha! I'm not a layman anymore! I know all about this Bach guy. He writes it all out for you. You must not ornament anything, lest he rises from his grave and scolds you very harshly. In German.
Well actually I don't know if he does it for the flute. Maybe he got lazy with that one instrument. He certainly only ever wrote just this one partita for it and then gave up.
I do know that people like to ornament the hell out of his Balladerie from the 2nd Concerto in B. Though I never quite understand why. It's fine as written.
What's the actual word? It's not balladerie. Can never remember it. Badinerie? Something something bathtub.
Badinerie
La badinerie (o badinage) è un movimento di danza in tempo pari di carattere gioioso e leggero. Essa si incontra raramente prima del XVIII secolo allorché venne utilizzata da compositori tedeschi e francesi all'interno delle suites. Un esempio famosissimo di badinerie è il settimo ed ultimo movimento della Suite Orchestrale no. 2 in si minore, BWV 1067, per flauto ed archi di Johann Sebastian Bach. Georg Philipp Telemann incluse una badinerie nella suite della terza parte del Tafelmusik ("musica da tavola"), TWV 55:B1. La badinerie fu usata raramente nell'Ottocento e nel Novecento: tra i pochi...
Badinage lol. First time I hear that one.
 
Færd
Færd
@Cerberus +1
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Færd Merci.
 
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
7:33 PM
I literally forgot it once again right now. What was it again? Pâtisserie? Bagage? Fuck me if I know.
Why not just call it bathtub alright. That one's actualy a word.
Unlike actualy, say.
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
10:40 PM
@RegDwigнt What, not even the odd appoggiatura? I think the occasional ornament would not be eschewed by ambitious flutists of the era, especially in a solo piece.
 

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