Dum Transisset Sabbatum

[butters]

Okay, let's break the rules.

Gesualdo: Sesto libro di madrigali: XVII

feels like my ribs have become the arcing structure of a cathedral's vaulted nave and my heart's floating up there, carried on currents of ...

*wipes tear*

 

[butters]

Richarfort: Requiem: Introit

no. the time's not right, the mood's not right right now for this. it needs a quieter, less bright time.

it . . . tethers me, where i would be floating. i want floating today. my ribs will keep my heart inside, my skull my brain - but my mind? it's aloft and not planning on coming down too soon

 

[butters]

miau!

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Ok. We get it already. You're stalking Byron.

 

[butters]

Ok. We get it already. You're stalking Byron.

you think? you'd be wrong, but then maybe you don't get friendship and a sharing of aesthetics. still, i wish you a merry christmas.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

you think? you'd be wrong, but then maybe you don't get friendship and a sharing of aesthetics. still, i wish you a merry christmas.

That's the second "Merry Christmas anyway" I've gotten. Merry Christmas to you too, I guess.

 

[Byron In Exile]

no. the time's not right, the mood's not right right now for this. it needs a quieter, less bright time.

it . . . tethers me, where i would be floating. i want floating today. my ribs will keep my heart inside, my skull my brain - but my mind? it's aloft and not planning on coming down too soon

Tristis Est Anima Mea

Then stay and watch with me.

 

[JohnnySavage]

http://file040.bebo.com/12/mediuml/2008/03/26/22/1212673400a7265287327ml.jpg

 

[butters]

Tristis Est Anima Mea

Then stay and watch with me.

now

and then i'm to bed.....

ohhh myyyyyyyyyyyy *aloft!*

 

[butters]

*tears*

 

[butters]

oh. my chest aches. so beautiful.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Ok. We get it already. You're stalking Byron.

We're both stalking Neci.

If you were really a woman you would have figured that out.

 

[Byron In Exile]

*tears*

You looked up the text, didn't you?

That's alright, I did that before I heard it for the first time.

But then, hearing this setting, I wept. And maybe that's not a very manly thing to say. Is it inappropriate for a man to cry listening to music? So many motets, and then, suddenly, you come across one that totally decks you.

I'm just listening to it again.

 

[butters]

You looked up the text, didn't you?

That's alright, I did that before I heard it for the first time.

But then, hearing this setting, I wept. And maybe that's not a very manly thing to say. Is it inappropriate for a man to cry listening to music? So many motets, and then, suddenly, you come across one that totally decks you.

I'm just listening to it again.

no, just those opening notes - so . . . pure

playing it now and it has exactly the same instant effect on my eyes. why does it do that? what part of a person's trilogy responds to these triggers?

*sniffs*

and no, it would be inhuman not to be moved!

 

[Byron In Exile]

no, just those opening notes - so . . . pure

playing it now and it has exactly the same instant effect on my eyes. why does it do that? what part of a person's trilogy responds to these triggers?

*sniffs*

and no, it would be inhuman not to be moved!

Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem:
sustinate hic, et vigilate mecum:
nunc videbitis turbam, quæ circumdabit me:
Vos fugam capietis, et ego vadam immolari pro vobis.

Ecce appropinquat hora, et filius hominis
tradetur in manus peccatorum.



English:

Sad is my soul unto death:
stay here, and keep watch with me:
soon you will see a crowd of men surround me.
You shall flee, and I will go to be sacrificed for you.

Here is the approaching hour when the son of man
will be delivered into the hands of sinful men.

 

[butters]

Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem:
sustinate hic, et vigilate mecum:
nunc videbitis turbam, quæ circumdabit me:
Vos fugam capietis, et ego vadam immolari pro vobis.

Ecce appropinquat hora, et filius hominis
tradetur in manus peccatorum.



English:

Sad is my soul unto death:
stay here, and keep watch with me:
soon you will see a crowd of men surround me.
You shall flee, and I will go to be sacrificed for you.

Here is the approaching hour when the son of man
will be delivered into the hands of sinful men.

hmmn, if anything, the words detract from what i experienced

 

[Byron In Exile]

hmmn, if anything, the words detract from what i experienced

The music came from the text.

If it helps at all, "immolari" means to burn a victim as a sacrifice. It really doesn't translate to English. There's a lot of Latin that doesn't translate well. English uses too many words.

However, the music speaks, and that's what's most important.

 

[Byron In Exile]

hmmn, if anything, the words detract from what i experienced

Oh!

Here's a wonderful thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZYhxT5Mf8

Let's just do it. I'm starting it now.

 

[butters]

The music came from the text.

If it helps at all, "immolari" means to burn a victim as a sacrifice. It really doesn't translate to English. There's a lot of Latin that doesn't translate well. English uses too many words.

However, the music speaks, and that's what's most important.

immolari - immolation, i know that. the music, the words sans meanings - just the sounds... instantly, just instantly draw the emotion fro me.

kind of similar with opera, though there's a lot i don't enjoy: i can let the sounds wash over me and resonate to them, but when i read the english words they're so dull. i prefer not to know them! and i love the english language. it has intricacies and nuances that skill can bring out.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Oh!

Here's a wonderful thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZYhxT5Mf8

Let's just do it. I'm starting it now.

And there it is.

 

[Byron In Exile]

immolari - immolation, i know that. the music, the words sans meanings - just the sounds... instantly, just instantly draw the emotion fro me.

kind of similar with opera, though there's a lot i don't enjoy: i can let the sounds wash over me and resonate to them, but when i read the english words they're so dull. i prefer not to know them! and i love the english language. it has intricacies and nuances that skill can bring out.

Well, Latin is the only language that God understands.

So that's a consideration.

 

[butters]

And there it is.

playing...

 

[Byron In Exile]

kind of similar with opera, though there's a lot i don't enjoy

Shall we dance?

Maybe there are some things we could do... I'm not a fan of opera. I know what a big deal it was back in the day, because it could combine a full orchestra with a stage drama, and nobody had to stand in the dirt for four hours to watch Hamlet...

My ex was really into opera. When she played it, I'd have to go to another room, because it disturbed me. I did learn two things, though.

One is that Verdi is a total jackass who can't write for shit.

The other thing happened because I could still hear stuff, so I'd go out and listen, and eventually say, "What's this?"

And she'd say, "that's Puccini"

It happened four times. She rolled her eyes on the last two.

So, before I take us back to the stone age (and I think you and I are the only two people left on this thread) do you have have any good Puccini links?

 

[Byron In Exile]

Wait... Mozart!

"Is it modern?"

 

[Byron In Exile]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl-N2JleNeU