Old Time Music Permanently Revokes All Song Titles
Old Time Music Permanently Revokes All Song Titles
I wonder if this would work for ITM?
"LEXINGTON, KY — In a decision aimed at reducing chaos and promoting the competent execution of old-time music during jam sessions, the industry’s National Council of Elders has unanimously voted to end the long-problematic practice of using words to name old-time fiddle tunes.
From this point forward, musicians will identify fiddle tunes by briefly playing the first four bars, or, in the absence of an instrument, singing some facsimile of that same passage." http://bluegrassintelligencer.com/?p=1055
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"the industry"!!!! Just about sums it up! What happens when the tunes vary after the first 4 bars? Who's going to enforce this? Shouldn't the article have been dated April1st?
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Funny stuff!
"Interestingly, several of the greatest old-time fiddlers ever to live were legally deaf, which often hindered their ability to faithfully reproduce a melody and added to the rapid creation of musical variation."
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This was one of the funniest pieces I've read in a long time. My old-time buddies and I are now shouting out numbers to identify a tune. And...we do refer to them as tunes here in the US.
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The Bluegrass Intelligencer is obviously a bastard offspring of The Daily Mash.
It has that characteristically American deadpan approach to spoofing that causes one to read it for quite some time as a serious, rather earnest document before the depth-charge goes off in your mind and you see it for what it is. And coming from the US, it all seems fairly credible - one never quite knows *what* to believe or not believe about the facts of existence over there...
Not that the reputation of Old Time is in any doubt. It is tunes from Britain and Ireland reduced to rubble, put through the masher, bombarded in a cyclotron, played with banjos and sung by timber wolves and possums. The idea of decoupling them from their names is actually being promoted to defer the payment of huge reparations by the Old Time and Bluegrass community to British and Irish cultural organisations for all the havoc they have done to British and Irish tunes over the last three centuries.
Underlining what's supposed to be a joke for Americans.
I find it culturally very tedious that every time one makes a comment that is somewhat tongue in cheek or funny (ha ha) or funny (just plain bonkers), one has to point it out as such for the benefit of the Americans, thus almost invariably undermining the whole essence of the humour.
I read the other day that the first sign that older people may be getting dementia is there inability to understand sarcasm or, indeed, irony. Does that mean the whole of America is demented?
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Yes, Mix, "KY" is the two letter abbreviation which the U.S. Post Awful uses for the state of Kentucky.
If someone from another country told me I was demented just because I am an American, I would be flattered.
When I tried to be ironic and tongue-in-cheek on a previous thread, I was completely misunderstood.
If the "deadpan" approach to satire doesn't work, maybe you could try a livepan, or a half-dead pan or an undead pan (vampiric satire anyone?).
Old Time Music Permanently Revokes All Song Titles
Old Time Music Permanently Revokes All Song Titles
I wonder if this would work for ITM?
"LEXINGTON, KY — In a decision aimed at reducing chaos and promoting the competent execution of old-time music during jam sessions, the industry’s National Council of Elders has unanimously voted to end the long-problematic practice of using words to name old-time fiddle tunes.
From this point forward, musicians will identify fiddle tunes by briefly playing the first four bars, or, in the absence of an instrument, singing some facsimile of that same passage."
http://bluegrassintelligencer.com/?p=1055
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by old and in the way
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KY=Kentucky.?
So not content with standardising fried chicken, they're now hell-bent on standardising tunes, are they?
Would it work for ITM?
... I prefer chaos, myself ....
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
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"the industry"!!!! Just about sums it up! What happens when the tunes vary after the first 4 bars? Who's going to enforce this? Shouldn't the article have been dated April1st?
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by Paul_draper
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Excelletn!
Looks like a Bluegrass Onion.com
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by RockyRoader
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Funny stuff!
"Interestingly, several of the greatest old-time fiddlers ever to live were legally deaf, which often hindered their ability to faithfully reproduce a melody and added to the rapid creation of musical variation."
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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The irony is, that American Musicians don't call them 'Tunes' anyway ... they call them all 'Songs'!
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by Ptarmigan
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Hmm. This article was written on the 7th April.... looks like it was about one week late...
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by Joe CSS
4 bars/ NoTitles
this simply goes along with what many session do.
you need a ruling from the elders?
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by Ben Steen
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This was one of the funniest pieces I've read in a long time. My old-time buddies and I are now shouting out numbers to identify a tune. And...we do refer to them as tunes here in the US.
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by oriley
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Surely the difference is:
TYOONZ or CHOONZ (East of the Atlantic)
TOONS (West of the Atlantic)
"National Council of Elders"?! Good grief!
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by Krick Stahlschwanz
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Well, if everyone just used the Latin names, there wouldn't be all of this confusion.
Barba pro Ientaculum, anyone?
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by Michele Sims
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The Bluegrass Intelligencer is obviously a bastard offspring of The Daily Mash.
It has that characteristically American deadpan approach to spoofing that causes one to read it for quite some time as a serious, rather earnest document before the depth-charge goes off in your mind and you see it for what it is. And coming from the US, it all seems fairly credible - one never quite knows *what* to believe or not believe about the facts of existence over there...
Not that the reputation of Old Time is in any doubt. It is tunes from Britain and Ireland reduced to rubble, put through the masher, bombarded in a cyclotron, played with banjos and sung by timber wolves and possums. The idea of decoupling them from their names is actually being promoted to defer the payment of huge reparations by the Old Time and Bluegrass community to British and Irish cultural organisations for all the havoc they have done to British and Irish tunes over the last three centuries.
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by nicholas
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(Don't worry, I'm just taking the p*ss as usual!...)
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by nicholas
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...and you're complaining about our deadpan approach to satire?
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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Wait. You mean that this is all some kind of "humor"?
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by Michele Sims
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(That's "humour" for those Trans-Pond.) (Just thought I'd point that out.)
# Posted on April 22nd 2009 by Michele Sims
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A tune by any other name should smell so sweet. That's sweetness I smell, right? No? ...
# Posted on April 23rd 2009 by Corey Murphy
Underlining what's supposed to be a joke for Americans.
I find it culturally very tedious that every time one makes a comment that is somewhat tongue in cheek or funny (ha ha) or funny (just plain bonkers), one has to point it out as such for the benefit of the Americans, thus almost invariably undermining the whole essence of the humour.
I read the other day that the first sign that older people may be getting dementia is there inability to understand sarcasm or, indeed, irony. Does that mean the whole of America is demented?
# Posted on April 23rd 2009 by Krick Stahlschwanz
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I must strenuously protest your characterization of all Americans as demented. It's just not true.
# Posted on April 23rd 2009 by fidkid
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Krick: Thread comprehension fail.
American satire website. All these Americans got the understated, deadpan humor. What are you talking about?
# Posted on April 23rd 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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Yes, Mix, "KY" is the two letter abbreviation which the U.S. Post Awful uses for the state of Kentucky.
If someone from another country told me I was demented just because I am an American, I would be flattered.
When I tried to be ironic and tongue-in-cheek on a previous thread, I was completely misunderstood.
If the "deadpan" approach to satire doesn't work, maybe you could try a livepan, or a half-dead pan or an undead pan (vampiric satire anyone?).
# Posted on April 24th 2009 by fauxcelt