Re: CHAT: Goethe (was: Roumant)

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:50:03 -0700, dirk elzinga
<dirk.elzinga@...> wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> Consider this poem:
>>
>>         ['ybA'al@n'gIpfl=n]
>>         ['Ist'Ru:]
>>         [In'al@n'vipfl=n]
>>         ['Spyr@st'du]
>>         ['kaumain@n'haux]
>>         [di'f3g@lain'Svaign=Im'vald@]
>>         ['vart@nurbald@]
>>         ['ru@stdu'aux]
>>
>> I think it's pretty beautiful, even apart from the sense.
>
>Indeed. I set this poem to music for a final project in a music theory
>class many years ago. The assignment was to create a four-part chorale
>using "common practice" harmony. Most of the other students set overtly
>religious texts; I opted for this instead.
>
>Dirk
Don't remind of how much music theory I've forgotten! It was one thing I
had a knack for when I was young. I didn't do much "common practice"
harmony, though; my teachers were more 20th century. I was going to
respond, "The Ode to Joy is nice, but it's already been done!"

Then Christophe wrote:

>I must also add that the European hymn ("the Song of Joy" in English
>version, but its original version is in German: "Alle Menschen werden
>Brüder") is also quite nice sounding to my ears.
>
>Christophe.
I'm supposed to be learning it for chorus, if I haven't been kicked out for
nonattendence.

    Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
    Tochter aus Elysium,
    wir betreten Feuertrunken,
    Himmlische, dein Heiligthum!
    Deine Zauber binden wieder,
    was die Mode streng getheilt;
    alle Menschen werden Brüder,
    wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

I should try writing it phoneticly, but I'm still a bit fuzzy with the
ASCII-IPA (also with the German pronunciation; what I learned in high
school seems to be nonstandard).

Jeff