OT Blues (was Re: Oldvak - something to figure out
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 23, 2003, 19:42 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Dirk Elzinga scripsit:
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> > "I will not be afraid of death and bane
> > Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane." - Macbeth V.iii.59-60.
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> This couplet has a very nice blues melody, though I'm not sure if it
> was written by Leonard Bernstein or not:
(snip)
I remember that!!. (Will pick out the melody on the piano later......) His
point was, of course, that any iambic pentameter couplet could be turned
into a blues.....
Some may recall-- a long time back somebody used the term of address "baby"
in an email. Irina Rempt replied rather (pseudo-?)indignantly, and signed
off with "Irina, who is nobody's baby anymore". I'm still trying to work
that up into a blues....... "...(I, she) ain't nobody's baby anymore". Maybe
some of our more musically-talented members would give it a try.
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