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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5845 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1457 of 3959 01 November 2009 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. 19 October 2009 I could understand SOME POSTS in the Danish thread, not the WHOLE Danish thread with my two lessons of Danish so far. 2. 22 October 2009 This sentence is double: "Fasulye (ESP): Has been to a meeting in Düsseldorf with some other Esperanto 'samideojn'. She won't confuse Danish and Turkish." And it should be corrected: These Esperantists are called "samideanoj". So just delete one of the two identical sentences. Fasulye Thanks for the corrections, Iversen! Edited by Fasulye on 01 November 2009 at 4:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1458 of 3959 01 November 2009 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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During the time where I didn'¨t study languages I had plenty of time for other interests, and one of them was classical music. I listened to it, I played and I even wrote it ... so it can't come as a surprise that I also collected it. My main collection was established in 1991-92, and it comprises 678 music cassettes with 90 or 100 minutes duration each. It takes years to listen through all that, so I have just bought a small number of CDs since then. I have of course tried also to get a fair representation of 'classical' composers from the States, so not only Copland and Ives, but also people like Piston, Harris and Hanson are represented (but not Glass, - he makes me fall asleep). But you don't hear much of that music in Denmark, - which is surprising when you consider the impact of American jazz, rock and whatever else here. As I see it there are several sources of inspiration for American 'classical' music: popular cowboy tunes, gospels, jazz (through Scott Joplin and Gershwin) .. and not least European late romantic music. The big film composers from Newman, Steiner and Korngold til John Towner Williams stand on the shoulders of people like Liszt, Wagner and Richard Strauß - in fact Korngold was a fugitive from Austria and deeply steeped into that romantic tradition. But for me the quintessential American classical music is something like Copland's third symphony, which basically is a spruced-up version of a lonely cowboy sitting at the campfire and blowing in his old and trusty mouth organ. Edited by Iversen on 01 November 2009 at 3:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1459 of 3959 01 November 2009 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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FR: Aujourd'hui, j'ai scanné 140 photographies d'un voyage dans la Vallée de la Loire en France que nous (ma mère, ma sœur et moi-même) ont fait en 2006. Incroyablement, ce fut une tournée couronnée de succès où nous avons vu deux châteaux en moyenne par jour (plus musées, zoos, supermarchés et autres attractions). Mais maintenant elle a obtenu un petit ordinateur portable ('notebook'), et ainsi voudrait-elle bien pouvoir regarder toutes ses photos sur l'écran.
SW: Medan jag satt där och fyllde bilder i scannern, kunde jag endda se tv, och här så jag även en sändning på svenska TV: "Jag älskar språk". Vi följde i spåren av en svenskt rappare från Uruguay, som besökte sin gamla skola, kollegor och sin gamla mor fra Uruguay, som uttalte "Castellano" som "Casteshano". Men annars var hon en klok gammal dam som en gång längesedan hade sett till att sonen sin fikk lärt sig bra svenska. GE: Und ab zwanzig Uhr sah ich dann eine Sendung im ZDF über Erzbischof Willigis, der den Bau der ersten großen Kathedrale in Mainz begonnen hat. Dreißig Jahre hat es gedauert, bis das immense Gebäude fertig war - am 28. Oktober 1009. Und dann wurde es ihm mitgeteilt, daß es brannte! Der Dom ist fast gänzlich niedergebrannt, aber wurde natürlich wiederaufgebaut. Das hat aber der Willigis nicht miterlebt, - er starb in 1011 und wurde in der viel bescheidenere Sankt Stephanskirche beigesetzt. ---------- I have spent several hourse today scanning my mother's photographs from a travel to the Loire Valley in France which she, my younger sister and myself undertook in 2006. Now she has however got a notebook computer, and of course she would very much like to have all her pictures transferred to it. This is just the beginning.. At least I can watch TV (and eat) while putting photos into the scanner. First I saw a program from Sweden about bilinguales. We followed an Uruguayan-Swedish rap singer who visited his old school, some collegues and his old mom from Uruguay, who pronounced "castellano" as "casteshano". Otherwise a wise old lady, who made sure that her son learnt to speak excellent Swedish by taking him out of the Spanish class. After that I watched a program (Terra X) about archbishop Willigis, who let build the first cathedral at Mainz ("Die goldene Stadt", as the Germans say). The building process took 30 years (which actually was quite fast in those days), and it was finished October 28 1009. However poor Willigis had hardly joined his canons to celebrate before he got the ominous message that the church had caught fire. It burnt down, but of course it was rebuilt - though too late for poor Willigis, who died in 1011. He lies buried in the neighbouring St.Stephans church. Edited by Iversen on 01 November 2009 at 11:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hobbema Senior Member United States Joined 5739 days ago 541 posts - 575 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, French, Dutch | Message 1460 of 3959 02 November 2009 at 3:57pm | IP Logged | ||
You have a good understanding of the roots of American orchestral music! And I have to say that I don’t have very many discussions with anyone, European or American, that involve both Roy Harris and Walter Piston. There are many classical music “purists” who have a disdain for American orchestral music, I suspect partly because we are a relatively new country over here and there are those who feel that anything less than 100 years old can’t be that good; also partly because the quality standard and tradition have always been European, (including Russia, I would say). And I myself truly believe there could never be another Beethoven. But would you agree that the sources of inspiration as you have listed above are exactly the same for traditional and contemporary European orchestral music? Folk tunes, religious traditions and music, the music of ethnic groups, and the work of those who have gone before; the sources are common regardless of geography. And your earlier hypothesis that language and speech patterns influence style very much makes sense, with these differences and those many different inspirations producing a fantastic diversity in styles of orchestral music around the globe. As to what what is good or what has value, Charles Darwin can explain what lasts and what doesn’t. After all, J.S. Bach is still with us: I suspect many of our current film composers won’t last 20 years. Some time I would be very interested to hear about what musical instrument you played and what prompted you to want to write music. I myself am an amateur musician and still play with various groups in the community, and while I love it I am still keeping my engineer job because as a musician I probably have more enthusiasm than talent. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1461 of 3959 02 November 2009 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would say that American classical music started late (Virgil Thomson didn't really sound American) and it soon drowned in other kinds of music: first jazz, then swashbuckling romantic film music and from the 50s rock and other kinds of popular music with only sporadic influences from classical music. In fact I don't think that the composers I mentioned are seen as inferior, they are just so unfamiliar that they are seen as experiments every time they are put on a concert program. It is much safer just to play Beethoven once more. This stands in total contrast to the succes of hollywood films, TV soaps and popular music (rock, rap etc.) which definitely have brought the English language out to the whole world. German, Russian, French and Italian music dominate the classical concert programs while English and American music are relatively rare there, but I daresay that Anglophone popular music has taken revenge.
I took recorder lessons from I was around 8, dropped it for the violin a year later, then added the cello from I was around 13-14 years orld, and finally I bought a piano in the 80s and started to hammer away. I started to compose (urged by my violin teacher) around age 10, then stopped when I was something like 22 (because I found the course of contempory 'composition' music disgusting). Then I took up composing again in the 80s because I played with some people that were genuinely interested in playing my works. However I stopped abruptly both playing and composing in the 90s because the narrowminded classical amateurs I happened to be playing with at the time wouldn't even try to play my music (maybe I wasn't dead enough), and since then I have only been listening to music (which I would compare to being a mere lurker here). I don't think I'll ever start again, even if I found some sympathetic persons - I have other interests now. Edited by Iversen on 02 November 2009 at 5:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hobbema Senior Member United States Joined 5739 days ago 541 posts - 575 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, French, Dutch | Message 1462 of 3959 03 November 2009 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | ||
How and what music is performed is subject to the same narrow-mindedness seen everywhere in the rest of the world, I guess. Your experience was unfortunate, but listening has its own joys, and with your background I would think you would have an even deeper appreciation and understanding than you otherwise would without that history. There’s a book called “Piano Lessons” by Noah Adams of our National Public Radio. He bought a piano and started taking lessons at the age of 50 just for the sheer joy of it. It’s clear from the book that virtuosity was never even a goal for him, but maybe the thing to remember is to not worry about being the best at something, but to enjoy what you’re doing. Coincidentally, that book was part of my inspiration for starting to learn a new language in my 40s. I was interested in another comment you made about the public’s lack of interest of lesser known composers due to unfamiliarity. We have plenty of that too, and the (what I could call “mainstream” listener) has little tolerance for anything contemporary. It’s a stereotype I suppose, but many people here perceive the European audience as being more sophisticated and cultured. By the way, I saw reference in a recent post about difficulties of using word lists for left-handers. Isn’t the method just a matter of folding your paper so you line up your list of words with an empty column on the page, and then either doing the forward or reverse translation from memory? And then refolding every time to line up a new column? I believe you had said the method could be adapted for a left-hander, I don’t understand what difference it would make, so maybe there’s something in the technique I’m missing – any clarification you could give would be appreciated. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1463 of 3959 04 November 2009 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I think that the music played at concerts obeys Zipf's law, i.e. the same law that governs word frequencies and number of postings in a language forum: a small number of very frequent items dominate, and from there the frequencies slope down hastily downwards to the great majority which leave no or close to no fingerprint in the statistiques. The big difference is that you don't have to be a genius to write a lot of posts, while it helps if you want to be one of the immortals among classical composers. My reaction to that is to search for the less played composers, including the lost generation of American composers. By the way I have in my collection a very dissonant and short piece called Sunthreader by a certain Carl Ruggles, who only published four pieces in his whole life. His wife must have been either a very rich or a very industrious, but in any case far too patient woman. What a slacker!
When I write about word lists I generally assume that the 'first-round' columns are to the left and the repetition columns are to the right. This is practical for righthanded people because they then have a free left hand to cover things. on the other hand lefthanded persons should probably have the repetition columns to the left. Thingsd become more complicated when we speak about the subcolumns (three in each first round column and two in each repetition column. Even lefthanders have to write Latin letters from the left to the right, and therefore you have to know exactly where to start each word. If you allow so much space that you can follow draw thin vertical guiding lines then it is feasible to invert the order - but I use the available space to the last millimeter, so I have to start from a border line and use the space as frugally as possible. FR: Ma lecture d'autobus-retournant-de-mon-boulot pour cette semaine est un peu risqué: "Parlons Géorgien" d'Irène Assatuiani et Michel Malherbe. Le risque c'est évidemment qu'il pourrait m'induire à étudier plus sérieusement cette language exotique et rarement étudié. Mais je vais me borner a reapprende l'alphabet (que je savait déchiffrer quand j'ai visité la Géorgie en 2000) et de me noter quelques particularités dans la grammaire. Par example on a 7 cas des substantifs (dont un 'narratif'), et on emploit des flexives à la fin des mots. Mais pour compliquer les choses on n'a pas de préposittions, mais plutôt des postpositions qui son't attachées aux substantifs après la désinence proprement dite. Je n'ais pas encore lu les chapitres sur la flexion verbale, mais j'ai tout de même fait quelques observations un peu inquiétantes. Par example "dans un certain nombre de cas, les verbes peuvent prendre un suffixe qui n'apporte aucune signification particulière et qu'on applle indicateur thématique." (p.67). Un petit truc qui bouge à son gré sans ajouter rien à la signification? Pas facile à apprendre! Même les noms des lieux sont un peu vexants: le pays s'appelle la Géorgie en français, un mot qui lui fut donné par les Iraniens ('gorg' dans leur language signifiait 'loup). Mais en Russe le nom es Грузия (Grusia), et le nom de la langue en Kartuli est (ქართული), ses habitants s'appellent des Kartvelebi (ქართველები), et le pays s'appelle Sakartvelo (საქართველო). Et ils aiment les groupe de consonnes: en Mtskheta (მცხეთა) there is for instance an old church called Svetitskhoveli, the living pillar( სვეტიცხოვლის საკათედრო ტაძარი, svet'icxovlis sak'atedro t'adzari - named after a fable involving the holy Nino, whose name is at least easy to pronounce) Edited by Iversen on 30 November 2009 at 10:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5864 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 1464 of 3959 04 November 2009 at 2:59am | IP Logged | ||
In Dutch, as you probably know, the word "dan" means both "then" and "than". I'm guessing but I suppose it is the same in Danish? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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