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Was my face red this morning, when after spending a couple hours trying to find English translation of one of the little stanzas in Carmina Burana, I found it in one of Wordsmith's Letters! I looked further, and found that all the words that have been in AWAD before are listed alphabetically. I suggest you browse there, you may find
words never discussed in AWADtalk that you might want to post about.
http://wordsmith.org/awad/wordlist.html

Edit: On Saturday, Jan 10, the wordlist seems to have been
deleted in toto. I wonder why. Boohoohoohoo!

Thanks for that link, Bill. As a relatively new member, I appreciate learning how things work around here.

BTW, Carmina Burana is one of my favorite musical works.

Both Faldage and etaoin have sung the swan song therefrom: Faldage in falsetto and etaoin in real live genuwine counter-tenor, far as I can recall.

Thus endeth the intrusion. Carry on.

Hey, I think I'd pay good money (is 'bad money' an oxymoron?) to hear that particular duet. Very fun!

well, you can hear one side of the duet:
http://www.rogergrow.com/music/swan.mp3
it's a 4MB download, so it might take awhile... this was from my performance with the Dartmouth Symphony last February. I also did all the baritone solos... but I haven't uploaded those. maybe someday.

Both Faldage and etaoin have sung the swan song therefrom

Which is why I sometimes call him 'cygne,' vocative of cygnus, swan.

I thought that was his call cygne

my performance with the Dartmouth Symphony Oh my gosh, oh my gosh--thank you!! I wish I had been talented enough to stay in that world.
Wofa, you have GOT to hear this!

his call cygne

That mighta been an OK pun if that's how cygne were pronounced, mav, ole buddy.

Dear Faldage: is the "g" hard?

Depends on whether you're using German Latin, Italian Latin or what. Roger sings it in the German style with a ts for the c and a hard g on the cut he gave us in his swan.mp3 link. We use the Italian ny pronunciation in our chorus, but when I'm singing it to my own medi�valoid setting I pronounce it tsingkne

is the "g" hard?

Well, it depends on how you want to pronounce it. Latin was learned as a second language in school throughout Europe, and every nation had its own pronunciation. Added to this is that many singers today pronounce Latin in the same way based on their original languages. (Using SAMPA http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm) For Germans: /tsign@/, for Italians /tSiJE/, for Romans (caution reconstruction) /kigne/. If you want to learn more about how scholars have reconstructed Roman pronunciation, see W. S Allen's Vox Latina.

Vox Latina. Great book. It asks, and answers those two essential questions: How do we know? and Who gives a rat's patootie?

Don't miss its prequel: Vox Graeca.

So ... if someone gives you their swan song over the phone, is that the cygnet ring ... ?

swan song over the phone, is that the cygnet ring ... ?

Ohhhh, groooooan. Must say you're right in form despite the trauma of the house move !

well, you can hear one side of the duet:
http://www.rogergrow.com/music/swan.mp3

Thank you for the link, etaoin.

I've tried to download this several times, but my new computer just isn't cooperating. Hopefully my DH will give me a hand with it this weekend. Based on the responses, it's well worth listening to. :-)

Dr. Bill, I just clicked on the link and the wordlist is there. There, there. Dry those tears.

Dear consuelo: maybe Wordsmith was working on it. Suddenly it works again for me too. Sorry about false alarm.
"Fire,Fire! False Alarm!
Baby sxxx on Papa's Arm!"

I was finally able to download the music, etaoin. That is really lovely. What a great voice! Thank you for sharing that. It really made my afternoon to hear it. I hope you keep on singing.

thanks, gh. I plan to!