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#101857 04/29/03 08:53 PM
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Is it me, or what?




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I simply misread and misread again.

To Anchita and Jackie:

Mea culpa.

To AnnaS: Were you possibly thinking of grinds in the last 24 hours and I somehow picked up psychic sympathetic vibrations?


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Quick definitions (grind)


noun: the act of grinding
noun: a student who studies excessively
noun: hard monotonous routine work
verb: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading (Example: "Grind the spices in a mortar")
verb: dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way
verb: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
verb: press or grind with a crunching noise
verb: work hard






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I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Oom bop bop good vibrations)

http://www.bajeca.com/volume/goodvibrations.htm


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#101861 04/30/03 10:09 AM
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I remember sitting in a bar, listening to this song on the juke box, noticing the A theme, the variation on the A theme, the B theme, the recapitulation of the A theme, etc., etc., and saying to myself, "This is a sonata." I have been unable to rediscover what I meant by sonata in this context. Perhaps someone more musically literate than I could fill in my blanks.


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Here's a primer in very basic sonata form:

Exposition: That's where you hear the main theme, which can actually be highly complex as in Beethoven's sonatas. In other words, the main theme may have sub themes.

Development: This is the section where the main theme can be modified, explored, go off into the stratosphere, become almost unrecognizable and new offshoots become developed.

Recapitulation: You're back home again. The primary theme is fully recognizable. Composers may modify the presentation as compared with the theme's appearance in the exposition, but your ear will tell you you're back home again.


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very basic sonata form

Sounds like Good Vibrations.


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Dang, eta, tell the whole world, why don'tcha? And here I was, comfortably mantled (no, Zed, NOT horny!!!). Flattered to be compared to the incomparable, though!


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This is for Rav: I am sitting here at work, reading posts on AWADtalk. I am NOT doing any actualŽ work. Therefore, I am "goofing off". So I am a "goof-off". This happens more than it should, but AWADtalk is addictive. I need a 12-step program or sumpin'...



What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -Ursula K. Le Guin, author (1929- )
#101866 05/01/03 12:23 PM
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actualŽ work

Dare I?
ROTFLMAO!


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