Describing sound
| From: | Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 23, 2004, 11:49 |
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Ray Brown wrote:
> On Friday, July 16, 2004, at 08:00 , Philippe Caquant wrote:
>> >
>> > (BTW, French would rather pronounce "Bach" as "Bak",
>> > at least when talking about Jean-Sebastien,
> Would that be the one we in the UK call 'Johann Sebastian'? (Or did this
> prolific family have French members?)
I seem to recall having seen this taken one step further: JSB's name
being rendered as something like "Jean-Sebastian Rousseau" :). I may
have the surname wrong, but it's meant to be a calque of "Bach", or as
we would say in English, "brook". :)
I've also seen "Louis" for "Ludwig". I don't recall seeing a calque of
"van Beethoven", though (perhaps the meaning isn't clear. It isn't to
me, at least), although the "van" was omitted. Both occured on
old musical scores, IIRC.
s.
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