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Hi back - I saw some of your other posts and was intrigued enough to go and visit your site and sign up for wwftd. I assume all I need do is send you an e-mail asking to be signed up?
Very pleased to have found this board,
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>True, O Queen. But other than Finns?
I wouldn't knock those people if I were you. My father was raised in a community with a lot of Finnish immigrants in it, and he was always quick to side with them because they would gang up on you if you didn't. Yes, many's the times he said to me, "Cast your weight to the Finns." Or something like that.
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Oh, for pity's sake! I have nothing whatever against Finns; I was trying to make the point that nobody (well, scarcely anybody) else speaks Finnish. As I understand it, Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language group, which has only 3 members (Finnish, Hungarian and, I believe, Estonian) and they are so different from all other European languages and to be almost totally unintelligible to anyone else. Indeed, it has been said that the Finno-Ugric languages are rivalled for exclusivity and unintelligibility only by Albanian and Euzkadi (Basque), which are not even Indo-European languages and which have no known relatives. I wish when I started this I had referred to a Basque composer, except I don't know of any.
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a Basque composer
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Hi - my first time on this excellent board and I get to correct somebody (and the web site cited)! Stat is from STATIM, not statinum. I studied 5 years of Latin, but still had to check the Latin-English dictionary at http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Latin/ to be sure enough to post this.
That medical words site may not be wholly reliable.
And hi from Martinus of the inaccurate Latin post. I read your correction and wondered what you were on about because my brain had already corrected the original word statinum to statim (my 5 years of Latin 25 years ago still has some effect) and I had to re-read my original cut-and-pasted post to find the error from the website. Thanks.
By the way, check out the HTML notes under FAQ and you'll discover how to turn URL's into live links, plus other useful stuff like bolding and colors.
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... so an American musician seeing "Pronto" on a score written by a Norwegian would know that the passage was to be played fast.
I know enough music, Italian and Spanish to be dangerous, but wouldn't a musician seeing "Pronto" think it meant play it immediately? I think presto is the word you're looking for. Faster than allegro. But not as fast as prestissimo.
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Marty said: I know enough music, Italian and Spanish to be dangerous, but wouldn't a musician seeing "Pronto" think it meant play it immediately? I think presto is the word you're looking for. Faster than allegro. But not as fast as prestissimo.
I remember seeing some sheet music for a rock song some years ago on which the speed was described as "Flat Out"! Still makes me giggle.
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Oh, for pity's sake! I have nothing whatever against Finns; . . . I wish when I started this I had referred to a Basque composer, except I don't know of any.
Bob:
Whoa! I was just using your note as an excuse to make a good pun. Didn't mean to offend you!!!
There was only one Basqke composer of note (so to speak). I cannot remember his name, but he was killed in a tragic accident during the Spanish Civil War. As I recall the story, he was standing in the wings while the Basque National Symphony Orchestra performed his first (and last) symphony. There was a false report of an air raid and he was trampled by all of the orchestra members who were trying to get through the only egress from the stage. The morale of the story, of course, don't put all your Basques in one exit.
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you guys slight Basque 'classical' music heritage; there have been several important Basque composers, not the least of whom would be Maurice Ravel (his mother was Basque); others "of note" include Arriaga (who died in 1826 at the age of 20) and Guridi (who died in 1961).
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I remember seeing some sheet music for a rock song some years ago on which the speed was described as "Flat Out"!
We just did a Rakhmaninov piece that had the notes in Russian. The editor was nice enough to translate them into Italian for us.
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