Day Of(f) Wra(i)th - Mozart with the Most (')art
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Day Of(f) Wra(i)th - Mozart with the Most (')art
Day Of(f) Wra(i)th - Mozart with the Mo(i)st (')art
~ Wednesday December 10 2003 ~
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It is September
2009 and I am adding a "Breakdown"
to this post. The newly-composed "Commentary" is to
follow the bleating (and not-worth-repeating)
"Little Pats on the Head" paragraphs
that were the
"Day Of(f) Wra(i)th"
eGreeting's heralds when I
began this Requiem "writing" as a <LESS MESS>
"NeatRetreat" WordPress.com blog in October
2008.
I have since (November
2009) retreated
from "NeatRetreat" back here to
www.somethingstupid.plus.com
The animation was made in late
2003, "haste"
and the dining-room.
~ Little Pats on the Head ~
Much in the manner
(if not "Much in
the manner"
of the Manor of Much
Wenlock and not tying
the knot "Much
in the manner" of the manner
of wedlock in the
Manor of Much Wenlock -
perhaps there's a deadlock, though THAT'd be
hemlock) that the first "poem"
I sent to
abctales.com was "Cherry Picked"
- with
subsequent scribblings all unhonoured -
startlingly,
My First Flash got a nod from
the
B3ta
Newsletter which helped give me the
energy to quickly complete : my
second attempt...
in a(n) (many many seconds) effort to catch
Christmas...but Try
(as I might ((as a (trite)
mite) try) Two
(Remember
(December)) fell flat.
A noob with the
Macromedia
multimedia
program - I created the entire presentation
within a SINGLE scene
- a terrible technique
causing EVERY element to be chaotically stacked
with all editing re(choir ?)quiring a FULL
(playful ? play the fool ?) play-through. It took
me a complete weekend just to do the sequence
with the spinning crystals and when I reached
my sELF-IMPosed
deadline of St. Nicholas' Day
Day I skimped a tadge on the quantity
of
envelopes that I would have preferred to
have included.
I was purty amazed
to have "lucked out"
noticing passable English phrases, within
the Latin (annunciation
?) enunciation
for the WHOLE,
holy song. The alterations
brought themselves particularly to the fore
in this specific recording of Mozart's
music and Thomas of Celæno's words.
I think my distortions are nothing short of a
~ LYRICAL MIRACLE ~
the mutually tickled, however, are in a minority.
Nevertheless, I shall continue with a
~ MOZART MONDEGREEN BREAKDOWN ~
You can view
the lengthy (19+ tercet) "Dies
Irae"
poem at Wikipedia. Mozart
only musicalised
a small section of the beginning of that text, six
lines, in fact ; chopped up and rammed home
REPEATEDLY in this arrangement
--->
Dies
iræ, dies illa
solvet sæclum in favilla
teste David cum Sibylla
Quantus
tremor est futurus
quando judex est venturus
cuncta stricte discussurus !
Dies
iræ, dies illa
solvet sæclum in favilla
teste David cum Sibylla
Quantus
tremor est futurus
quando judex est venturus
cuncta stricte discussurus !
Quantus
tremor est futurus
Dies irae, dies illa
Quantus tremor est futurus
Dies irae, dies illa
Quantus
tremor est futurus
Quantus tremor est futurus
quando judex est venturus
cuncta stricte discussurus !
cuncta
stricte
cuncta stricte
stricte discussurus !
cuncta
stricte
cuncta stricte
stricte discussurus !
I did not have
access to this Latin when I created
the following derangement
which was arrived at
(im)purely by ear (in
the style of a wishful-thinking
Columbus imposing the domineering WILL of his
tongue on "the natives").
A visual
adaptation of the original text could
NEVER
have resulted in the wild deviations of these
Anglicised and empurpled :
~ MIS-HEARD LYRICS ~
Dies
iræ, dies illa
Deepest Feeling - Sleepless fever
solvet sæclum in favilla
Solid silver - Live for fear
teste David cum Sibylla
Crystal diet holds him near
Quantus tremor
est futurus
Haunt us ghost of Taurus
quando judex est venturus
Hearken holy chorus
cuncta stricte discussurus !
Knower's Arc will speak to - Discuss all this
Dies iræ, dies
illa
Deepest Feeling - Sleepless fever
solvet sæclum in favilla
Solid silver - Live for fear
teste David cum Sibylla
Krystle diet holds him near
Quantus tremor
est futurus
Haunters' dreadful, wrestful taunts
quando judex est venturus
Are not uselessness - They've torn us
cuncta stricte discussurus !
Cold heart's Queen will dismal scorn us
Quantus tremor
est futurus
Hark ! The twirling al-aways will adorn us
Dies irae, dies illa Dizzy Dizzy
Quantus tremor est futurus
Hark ! The threat more or less will have taught us
Dies irae, dies illa
Dizzy Desire
Quantus tremor
est futurus
Hark ! The threatened al-aways will talk
Quantus tremor est futurus
Not to save the least of the fawners
quando judex est venturus
Allelujah sends victorious
cuncta stricte discussurus !
All lost sentience to saunas
cuncta stricte
God is "'nit"ing
cuncta stricte
Gorgeous nickers
stricte discussurus !
Send your Christmas orders
cuncta stricte
God is "R.I.P."(p)ing
cuncta stricte
Gorgeous knickers
stricte discussurus !
Send your Christmas orders
~ NO NONSENSE ENGLISH TRANSLATION ~
I have found
a number of online English translations
of the portion of "Dies Irae" that Mozart chose. None
of these is as direct and clinical as I had expected.
The sacred script is a POEM - and is treated as such
with the nuance and ambiguity of ART taking
precedence over the precision of exactitude
.
There
is a LOT of variation between suggestions and
no small deviation where scholars have taken
pleasure in embellishing or slanting the meaning
adding their own personalities, artistry and rules of
rhythm and rhyme.
Franklin Johnson's
nineteenth century discussion
of this craft is available to download or read
online via this link to archive.org -->
The
Dies Irae - An English Version in
Double Rhymes with an Essay and Notes
Having
looked up all the words and phrases in
William Whitaker's online WORDS
- Latin-to-English
& English-to-Latin Dictionary, I felt a little at a loss
as to the PROPER definitions of, particularly,
"sæclum" and "discussurus".
"sæclum"
appears to mean "everyone"
- it is
linked to "age", "generation", "breed", "race",
"present time/age/century", "people
born at a time" -
and yet most translations interpret this as the less
personal "world"
- as if it is the PLANET
that is
to be emphasised as being incinerated
rather than
the globe's population
bearing the brunt of incendiary
red-hot wrath. (That's not <Tim
with a temperature>...)
The Latin for
"world" is NOT ""sæclum""
;
it is, chiefly, "mondus".
"discussurus",
in its form meaning "plead case",
probably gives us our modern English
"discussion".
I never realised that there was a defensive and judicial
twang to this commonly lightly-applied term nor that it
implied a high level of vigor (if
not outright violence).
It is formed from "di" meaning "apart" and "quartere"
meaning "shake". Thus to discuss
is to "shake apart"
(and if we discuss "discuss" enough
we will discuss it
(and
discuss it) ("Disgusting !" ? ...There's no
disguising it.)).
This "shaking
apart" could be as powerful as a
"blowing up" - and most fitting for the end-of-the-world
<caught in court> scenario that is the subject matter of
the eerie "Dies Irae". The online Latin-to-English Dictionary
weighs in favour of the
destructive and annihilative -
grouping : "strike down", "shatter", "dissipate" and "bring
to naught" without mentioning the scales or measures that
refine many a-honing.
If it's a puzzle,
you might "solvet".
For balance
within a sentence, "solvet"
taken as "scatter"
rather
than "loosen", "release", "unbind", "untie", "free",
"pay off" or "pay back" matches
(Bah-boom !) the
"(glowing) ashes"
of a "favilla" that
could
alternatively be (undark) "sparks" or (amber) "embers".
Dies iræ, dies
illa
solvet sæclum in favilla
teste David cum Sibylla
Quantus tremor
est futurus
quando judex est venturus
cuncta stricte discussurus !
~ KNOW NONSENSE (?) ENGLISH IMPOSITION ~
An angel is a divine messenger. I found a
quartet
of these characters proving themselves to be
high-minded yet stabling influences over a holy
household in Domenico
Ghirlandaio's 15th Century
painting : "Adoration of the Magi".
Adoration of the Magi by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1488)
I detailed the "detail" to enrôle their scroll...
Angelic Quartet DETAIL from Domenico Ghirlandaio's "Adoration
of the Magi"
..and relay the alternate English script of
the
mis-heard "Dies Irae".
Sleepless Fever
Swept into outer space (and not under the carpet),
our gliding guides, humble before Hubble,
are not
star-struck by the sweating stealer left, damp, doomed
and damned, on the left. He is Paul
Newman portraying
the thief Butch
Cassidy in the 1969 cowboy crime caper
film "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
Although this source would suggest that a
"Sleepless
Fever" has been brought about by a nauseating nervousness
incited by the fear of being forced to imminently em-belly
a breadbasket full of Bolivian bullets...
...perhaps, amongst Paul Newman's Sauces are
some
supremely spicy varieties that might stimulate similar
skin-soaking symptoms.
Oooo ! Indeedy-do... and with a tag-line :
~ A HEAVENLY SAUCE THAT'S STRAIGHT FROM HELL ~
that couldn't be more pertinent, "Newman's
Own Hot and Spicy Sauce" is available
from online supermarket Ocado.
Solid Silver, Live for Fear
This "Solid Silver" is not sullied
silver and the
silver "service" (is that cut-above-cutlery for the
bestestest of butlery ?) can only be religious if
the primate
is a primate.
Crystal diet hold him near
Literal (glitter-all) crystals litter all.
"Christ Surrounded by Musician Angels" by Hans Memling
Here's Jesus with a (crystal/Christ-all)
circlet, encircled by singers. For hours
of fun - try pairing (not paring)
Hans' cloned choristers' hands.
Haunt us ghost of Taurus
I paired them with Domenico
Ghirlandaio's
devout shouters (and the shady apparition
of a (<cow>-y but non <kow-tow>-y)
constellation)...
Hearken holy chorus
...then each other. The black box (with a
strip ripped from it by my avi-encoder)
is a volume-gauge, a decibel detector dial.
In this auditory capacity, perhaps it would
be of use to Black
Box.
Linked...:
...the Missing.
Knower's Arc will speak to
To the rear and the right we see an ornamental
"Noah's
Ark", carved from precious metals,
perhaps borne both from and to a Pot
o' Gold.
In common with the angels
ahead of it, its rail is
the the route of the rainbow. This coloured curve
is the "Knower's
Arc". The sign that the dreadful
deluge has desisted a marker to Man, from his
Maker, of the Covenant - God's promise to the
meek to not seek to destroy them again...
...er well, at least not until Revelation's segregations.
Discuss all this
To turn a U.F.O. (Unidentified Flying Object)
into an I.F.O. (Identified Flying Object), I must
state that the sable spinner is a "Discus"
drawn from "Discuss"...
Deepest feeling
Wonky-legged in a (numbered) singlet and
sporting sporty (spectrum-speckled) (quite
long) shorts is (multi-coloured) multi-Olympic-
Gold-Medal-winning Lithuanian athlete
Virgilijus Alenka - as the thrower of
the discussed discus.
Beside him (if not "beside himself") is Santa
Claus - as the (wry ?) catcher of the Noah's
Ark model from the previous screenshot.
Live for fear
This second set of "Solid
Silver" cutlery
includes a knife and fork with skeletal
handles. These boney blades are buddies
with the bearded Beelzebub behind
and, together, represent the "haunters"
in the next...
haunters' dreadful, wrestful taunts
...picture in which we see a rather rocky
gemstone "Crystal
diet" succeeded
by a deadly-drumstick-driven
"Krystle
(Carrington) diet".
No chicken,
she uses food to fend off
(hunger pangs AND) a fearsome fiend.
They've torn us
In a tumult, where Krystle
Carrington did
not chew malt,
that <champ of chomp>
finds she can't keep everything under
her hat so Heaven,
"the heavens" and
Linda Evans open...to reveal...
Cold heart's Queen will dismal scorn us
...not the Seven
Seas and not the Seven
Seals
but a clime where seven seals
might climb
<clubbing together> gleefully
with squeals
the (Ice (Cream)) Queen of Hearts (and
hidden parts (that cards discard)) conceals
while the blood of the <shocked !> <shopped
!>
barbarously-bludgeoned bubs congeals.
You might "pipe your eye"
that they had to die
but these...
Singers and Pipers Detail from Hans Memling's Last Judgment Triptych
...pipers from on high...
... (the flower (?) of The
Tower ?)
Last Judgment Triptych by Hans Memling
...will not cry Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Last Judgment Pipers
...as they melt what's dealt.
The threat more or less will have taught us
This image shows what torture taught ya.
School and education is represented by a
chalked-on blackboard showing the
simple symbols ">" (greater than) and
"<" (less than) to (more or less) express
the "more or less" of the lyric. The
two blue items are thumbscrews.
Dizzy Desire
Celestial spiralling is enough to make anyone
dizzy, but not everyone has as much right to
blow their own trumpet as Dizzy
Gillespie.
The threatened al-aways will talk
With those thumbscrews out of sight (but not
out of mind), it is sure that "The threatened
al-aways will talk" yet rarely may they be
guaranteed to "speak for themselves" as, too
woeful to waffle, this momentarily mute,
glazed-eyed Ventriloquist's Mannequin won't
(and wooden) dispute.
Not to save the least of the fawners
He is "struck dumb" only until jaw-droppingly,
voice-throwingly, he succumbs, un-numbs and
becomes a "struck" Dummy ; giggle-less
but garrulous.
All lost sentience to saunas
Fawner than the "fawner",
browner than
the frowner, and <hot as Hades>,
this
gospel lady's tossing her triumph-trophy
and singing a winning "Allelujah"
to
Jehovah 'n' a grinning, pallid puppet -
part Blur,
part Zoë
Ball.
Divinity-Depicting Detail from "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo
It's rude to point.
...to a point.
It's also rude to turn up with a bunch of
petty potty putti
people and then not say
who they are. Apart from God, I can only
recognise Kate
Moss.
The Grand
Designer,
the Greater Creator
is supposed to be fashioning
Adam,
modelling him "in His own image".
Detail from "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo (and God)
I'm really not sure he's all
he's cracked
up to be, and, frustratingly, he's the second
person in this blog-post who looks EXACTLY
like "a girl I knew at school" (...it's not the
SAME girl) who I <completely can't tell
you about> because YOU "won't know her
from Adam".
Add : "Damn !"
Adam ; At a stretch, he's a bit of a layabout
Arguably, not only limp-wristed,
if we gain
some perspective, we can (hardly)
see that
this mellow fellow is a little less like that girl
from school ; "little" being the operative...and
what's all that phallic buckety asparagus stuff
getting and groped at the bottom (by a
gripper not Agrippa)
?
Clearly it is not a clean-shaven (un-barbed),
birthday-suited (un-garbed), Adam
Eden who is
the most obvious (Earthy and) Earthly physical
reflection of the grizzled (and grizzly ?) God
of Michelangelo's
pink-frocked pointer.
Instead, bearing gifts, ruby-robed
and in hirsute
pursuit of Godly goodliness, the man "Our Father"
far more closely resembles is our "Father
Christmas".
Why else would Santa be cradling the Ark ???
God is "nit"ing
The text "God
is "'nit"ing" refers not
only to the sartorially fully-woolly knotting
of knitting
well-spread threads but also to
the un-homing combing, the unespousing
de-lousing of Nits.
As well as being a derogatory term applied
to one perceived to be an ingnoramous (one
should never ignore Amos),
a "Nit" is the egg
or nymph of a head-louse.
Look carefully and
you will see them there (a pair) ...among
the fair hair.
Gorgeous nickers
God has one knitted "nit"
still caught in his
quiff, there is a violet egg on the cloud
beneath the banner by the angels' knees
whilst the leggiest of the trio falls towards a
moustachioed Robert
Redford. In the guise
of gun-slinger
Harry Longabaugh, he stands
above the law, below the Lord and to the right
of his right hand man and "Butch
Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid" co-star
Paul Newman.
Together these thieving heart-throbs may be
collectivised as : "Gorgeous
nickers". To
"nick" is to "re-appropriate".
God is "R.I.P."(p)ing
A Trinity
of (w)(hol(e)y) (mean) meanings
in this "God is "R.I.P."ping"
screenshot.
1.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE DIVINITY
"God is ripping"
= general high praise for God
expressed in hoighty-toighty 1920's toff slang.
2.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE DIVINITY'S ACTIVITY
"God is
ripping" = God is tearing, He is calling
a garment a "varmint"
(whether "Weasels
Ripped
My Flesh" (or the "Word made flesh") none or
Nun of the (Lord)
Above)
3.
A DESCRIPTION OF ANOTHER OF THE
DIVINITY'S ACT(OF GOD)IVITIES
"God is "R.I.P."ing"
=God, the giveth-er and
taketh-away-er-er of all things, is fonder of
grave than of graven images. Two tombstones
are divined behind (defined, refined, as Moses'
"Tablets" - bitter pills, sweet, sugar-coated)...
Gorgeous knickers
Ahh ! NOT "sugar-coated" but <pastel-panted>
by these (late) bloomers,
harking, with their
rainbow colours, back to the Ark
and Alenka
-
plus - who's to say what "Gorgeous
knickers"
the "Gorgeous nickers"
tucked 'twixt their
chaps' chaps
and slicker kickers'
spats.
Send your Christmas orders
This is where I am "pushing the envelope"
(if not the (much higher) number of envelopes
I would ideally have added as non-dismissive
missives) and my luck to suggest that this
Mozartian Mondegreen could contend to be a
festive e-greeting.
As a 10MB .Flash.
File, the narrowband
>>>>>constraints<<<<<
of 2003 meant that I sent
this to no one.
Take Note !
I think we've all had more than enough of
these notes on notes. The banner should
ban 'er, yer honour - be gone-er !
Dizzying Dizzy Dizzy-ing
The world whirled into a horn forlorn.
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PRODUCTION PERIOD MAIN MEMORIES
"The Darkness" on Frank Skinner,
"starry, starry nights", Nestle's Milky Bar.
MIGHT'VE
MADE ITS
William Blake, Chalk, Clock Faces, Clothes Pegs,
Dunces' Caps, Ear Trumpets and Karate
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