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Silly Canon [message #18818]

Thu, 30 July 2009 19:22

b_twin_1
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Here's a silly canon for a Black Bear's birthday Very Happy

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Thu, 30 July 2009 19:26

southdowner
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oops! I seem to remember being an epitapher! Love the "breath taking scream making" vbg

and

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLACK BEAR

[Updated on: Thu, 30 July 2009 19:31]

Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18828 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Thu, 30 July 2009 19:35

Geek Mom
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Happy Birthday BlackBear!

My lovely Sis-in-Law sent me an email for my birthday (28th). It was titled An Important Message About Growing Old, and it had an animation of a beautiful rose and its reflection. (I can't think why the rose made me think of this forum... Smile

)
Anyway, when you scroll past the graphic, it says "Crap. I forgot what I was going to tell you. But isn't the flower pretty?"

"The sally is the fuzzy thing..." -- my four-year-old

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18836 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Thu, 30 July 2009 20:09

b_twin_1
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LOL Well done on the silly canon! (You believe in making the altos work hard for their supper don't you? LOL) It's delightfully silly Smile

And Happy Birthday Black Bear Smile

Have some fruit & honey to celebrate. Very Happy

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18837 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Thu, 30 July 2009 20:15

Julia
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Oh, well DONE! Yaay Robin, Composer of Silly Canon.

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BLACK BEAR!!!
Smile

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18838 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Thu, 30 July 2009 20:46

jmeadows
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Eeee, the canon is *awesome*! Laurel (who is here with me) and I both had a great time reading it. Maybe we can get the boys over here and sing... (Should be scary.)

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLACK BEAR!!!

[Updated on: Thu, 30 July 2009 22:29]

Smooshes!

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18839 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Thu, 30 July 2009 20:57

librarykat
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Unfortunately for me, I don't enough singers with a great sense of humor who would learn to sing this lovely silly canon for Black Bear. But, I've printed it out so I can play it and have some fun anyway.

And Happy Birthday, Black Bear! Enjoy! Have fun! Yaaaayy! (imagine Kermit the Frog waving arms and yaying here)

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Thu, 30 July 2009 20:57

librarykat
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librarykat wrote on Thu, 30 July 2009 19:57

Uurrggh. Don't KNOW enough singers etc.

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18842 is a reply to message #18838 ]

Thu, 30 July 2009 21:03

Robin
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Scary is good. :)

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Thu, 30 July 2009 21:04

Robin
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All great writers leave out their verbs occasionally. And other parts of speech. Like and and and. And too. :)

(KERMIT THE FROG???)

[Updated on: Thu, 30 July 2009 21:05]

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Thu, 30 July 2009 22:07

Ithilien
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*chortles with delight at the canon* (Hey, babies get to do it. Why can't I?)

Happy Birthday, Black Bear!

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Thu, 30 July 2009 22:17

blondviolinist
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Happy birthday, Black Bear!

Ok, the canon completely cracked me up! Can't wait to get near a piano so I can play around with it. Congratulations on all the dynamics and articulations. Those things are a pain and a half to get in the right place. Ick!

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard

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Thu, 30 July 2009 22:34

karalianne
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I... have printed it out, in booklet format. Did you know that Adobe Reader gives you that option? It does. And then my printer paused in between pages to tell me how to print double-sided. And I didn't realize it was telling me until I'd been sitting there holding the rest of the pile of paper down (so it wouldn't get pulled through the feed) for several minutes, lamenting the fact that I couldn't start typing until it had started printing. (Silly computer. Why doesn't it know that I already know how to print double-sided?)

I have also shared the link to the blog post with my mother and the two more musical of my three brothers. My mother might actually get it sung and recorded (though I didn't actually ask her to do so), as she knows people at the university who are voice majors. She also runs a youth singing group - the kids would probably get a kick out of this, but they don't meet until September.

Me, I had to sing a scale through and then an arpeggio before I could actually sing the first line. I like it!

And happy birthday to Black Bear! Smile

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." Albert Camus
"I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble." Karen Cushman

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18847 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Thu, 30 July 2009 23:03

Black Bear
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I am, to say the least, SPEECHLESS. Smile

Thank you thank you for all the birthday wishes, everyone! And thank you, Robin, especially; I could NOT stop laughing while reading the lyrics, and I can't wait to fumble gracelessly through it on my guitar to get the sound of it... Oh, wow. Smile

You all may recall that I'm a baritone in real life--bearish of me, I know. That tenor part looks a bit high for me in spots, I might just have to stretch myself to give it a shot sometime...

THANK YOU!!!!!!

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Fri, 31 July 2009 02:29

Diane in MN
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLACK BEAR!

I hope you had a splendid day.

And then record it and send me a link.

A hearty second to this thought from one of the musically illiterate!

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Fri, 31 July 2009 03:53

Fake Frenchie
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Happy Birthday BlackBear!

ANd good job on the canon. I don't know squat about music, but I used to play the piano and the canon looks interesting. I love the words!

Please someone record it and post a link to "you-tube".

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18855 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Fri, 31 July 2009 06:35

Louiz
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Happy Birthday, Blackbear, and I shall attempt to torture Robin's lovely canon with a recorder or tin whistle (whichever I find first) when I get home....

Louiz.

Bibliovorous.

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18857 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Fri, 31 July 2009 07:04

holmes44
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good job robin and HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLACK BEAR.

Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18858 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Fri, 31 July 2009 10:46

Mrs Redboots
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Happy Birthday, Black Bear!

Sadly, I don't do music well enough to "hear" this in my head, but the words are heaven (and oh, how I want to sing the bass part!), and I'm sure it sounds fantastic. If anybody does get it sung, PLEASE put it on YouTube.

Mrs Redboots
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Re: Silly Canon [message #18862 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Fri, 31 July 2009 11:54

jaccairn
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I've just been mangling bits of it on the recorder, which doesn't quite have the range to play all of it, but neither does my voice which won't hit the highs of the soprano or the lows of the alto. Anyone listening (poor soul) would hear the odd silence where I think the odd note that either will not not reach.

But I get enough of an idea to think very interesting, and would love to hear it sung properly.

Happy Birthday Blackbear!

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18867 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Fri, 31 July 2009 13:10

AJLR
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Love the Canon! Smile

Many happy returns of the day, Black Bear. I hope you had many a pawful of favourite food yesterday and a generally splendid time all round. Smile

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Fri, 31 July 2009 18:36

Black Bear
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That I did, thank'ee kindly! Discovered a new pizza place here in town which was utterly fabulous, and spent an hour duckpin bowling at the Fountain Square Building, which is one of the great treasures of Indianapolis. Wonderful birthday, it took the sting out of the whole aging process... Smile

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Fri, 31 July 2009 19:50

librarykat
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[(KERMIT THE FROG???)[/quote]

The Muppet Show? Sorry, I've been reading the new Muppet Show comics (they're wonderfully wacky), and they've been bringing back all the memories of watching the reruns on Nickelodeon with my older son when he was about 5 years old. That was a long time ago. And longer ago than that, I used to watch the show when it first aired on television.

Kermit would wave his arms wildly, throw his head back, and yell out YAAAAYYYYY!!! Well, the puppeteers would do it, but you know what I mean ... I hope ...

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Fri, 31 July 2009 19:52

Robin
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Ah. No, I was reacting to 'small, green, made out of felt'. :)

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Fri, 31 July 2009 20:35

Black Bear
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librarykat wrote on Fri, 31 July 2009 19:50

Kermit would wave his arms wildly, throw his head back, and yell out YAAAAYYYYY!!! Well, the puppeteers would do it, but you know what I mean ... I hope ...

I knew exactly what you meant! "Iiiit's the Muppet Show, with our very special guest star, Ernest Borgnine! YAAAYYYYYYY!!!" (flippers go wild)

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18890 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Fri, 31 July 2009 22:39

skating librarian
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A Belated Happy Birthday Black Bear!

I'm so glad to hear that you enjoyed it.

And with the others I await the transformation of the sheet music into something I can appreciate fully.

Robin, I hope your musical muse will give you a break ... and with reference to Friday's post ... is there a muse of bell ringing, or does the Goddess of Mathematics serve as a stand in?

Hmm, I feel a bit of research coming on.

"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18894 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Sat, 01 August 2009 04:39

NotLonely
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Happy belated birthday, Black Bear!

And, what a lovely little canon! I can't record it, but I can do a facsimile on midi (I haven't learned how to do the dynamics though)which I could post.

Would that be acceptable?

Life always, always finds a way.

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Sat, 01 August 2009 20:02

Robin
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MATHEMATICS??? Wash your mouth out with soap. :) The only reason I have stayed the course with bell ringing is that it's not REALLY maths it just . . . has NUMBERS in it. :)

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Sat, 01 August 2009 20:03

Robin
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We'll take what we can get. If you feel like giving it a try, see what it sounds like dynamic-less. And thanks for the offer, whether it works or not! :)

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18929 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Sun, 02 August 2009 02:01

danceswithpahis
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Okay, slightly belated happy birthday from me too. Congratulations!!

"Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!"

-- Lilo ("Lilo and Stitch")

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Sun, 02 August 2009 13:20

NotLonely
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Robin wrote on Sun, 02 August 2009 02:03

We'll take what we can get. If you feel like giving it a try, see what it sounds like dynamic-less. And thanks for the offer, whether it works or not! Smile

Done, then!

It will take a wee bit of time as my lecturers have all decided that the first semester was way too easy and we have been piled with assignments. These I am enjoying*, but Things of Sublime Silliness must unfortunately wait. It may be a day or three.

*Nerds of the world, unite!

Life always, always finds a way.

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Sun, 02 August 2009 19:29

Robin
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We await your pleasure. :)

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Re: Silly Canon [message #18968 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Sun, 02 August 2009 21:07

Firebyrd
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Silly Canon is the perfect title for it. If my voice weren't so out of practice, I'd be tempted to hassle my mom and husband into learning it with me. I definitely couldn't hit the high A with my voice where it is right now, though, and we're missing a tenor. Hmm, I think my brother is a baritone, maybe he could manage it.... Drat being out of practice. I just don't do well keeping my upper range flexible unless I'm doing choirly stuff.

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Mon, 03 August 2009 19:41

Robin
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So join a choir! :) We await your pleasure too!

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Tue, 04 August 2009 06:10

Firebyrd
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Alas, fibro plus being the primary caretaker of the hellspawn means I'm lucky if I get the grocery shopping done in a week, let alone adding extra obligations. In a few years, when the kids aren't so needy and if our hopes of my husband ever getting a single job able to support us happen, I'll be more able to get involved in stuff like that (and plan to be).

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Re: Silly Canon [message #19037 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Tue, 04 August 2009 09:18

Julia
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I printed it out and have been picking out the parts at the piano... If I warm up with some Broadway songs first, I can just hit that highest "EEEK", but the first few times I tried, it came out as more "squeek" than "EEEEK"...

But I played the thing through, and sang the soprano and alto lines alternately as best I could... and I'm going to repeat my previous "well done" still more emphatically now that I've done more than just look at the thing- actually played bits of it, and thoroughly enjoyed myself into the bargain.

Yay.

Smile

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Tue, 04 August 2009 12:20

NotLonely
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Julia wrote on Tue, 04 August 2009 15:18

and I'm going to repeat my previous "well done" still more emphatically now that I've done more than just look at the thing- actually played bits of it, and thoroughly enjoyed myself into the bargain.

Yay.

Smile

SECONDED

Life always, always finds a way.

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Tue, 04 August 2009 18:34

Robin
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'enjoy' is the crucial thing here. :)

And a squeaky 'eek' is quite acceptable. :)

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Tue, 04 August 2009 18:35

Robin
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Snork! Thank you!

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Re: Silly Canon [message #19159 is a reply to message #18818 ]

Thu, 06 August 2009 19:37

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Happy rather belated birthday, Black Bear!
(am catching up after almost three weeks lugging around a computer that never got beyond "excellent signal but no connectivity")

I wish I had enough music-reading skill to know what a canon with such words Very Happy

sounds like!

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