Four Letter Word Game

[Bamb0]

Hehe I dont have an entry now Jer


Ill wait until someone else adds an entry

[JeremyNicoll]

Hmm - ok try this - Iranian unit of currency: //Rial//

[hadaso]

Or you can sing an ARIA.
BTW Today I sort of "used" a phone with a dial. My nieces visited with their babies.

[JeremyNicoll]

[An aria I might manage - or rather /might/ have managed when I was well --- but (lots of) years ago I was asked to sing something which required me to sing in the "recitative" style -- something I'd never done before.

How difficult this was didn't become apparent until the rehearsal a couple of hours before the performance. I thought - wrongly - that before each entry I had to make that the continuo player (church-organ in this case) would play a spread chord (essentially an arpeggio of related notes) in which I would hear the note I intended to start my next phrase on - which would confirm in my mind that the note I thought I was about to sing was the correct one.

But this wasn't how she thought it should go - she would wait until I started to sing a phrase THEN play the appropriate spread chord(s) - which would confirm to me I was singing the right notes - if I was - but be too late to fix the problem if I was not. Impasse! - each of us waited for the other...

This might have been fine if I'd had several days to get used to how it was going to work - but I had about 10 mins. I do not think I did it well in the performance.



On another occasion I was asked (by someone who was an experienced older singer in that chorus) if I'd fill-in a solo line in a major choral work at the next rehearsal. I learned it thoroughly. Come the moment in the next rehearsal & the time at which I should have started singing ... & I didn't.

(I thought it would have been different if the conductor had said something to make it clear he knew about the arrangement ... but he didn't. It seemed to me to be incredibly arrogant to sing-in a soloist's part when I was standing in the midst of the chorus.)

The bloke who'd suggested I did this then started to sing the part; I thought "hmm I learned this - I'll do it" - started & he shut up.

(This was behind a large orchestra & in the midst of a chorus of maybe 70-100 singers - though not all particularly good ones.)



The interesting (to me) thing about this is I subsequently sang the work twice more with a different (internationally-acclaimed) chorus - as a mere chorus member - and discovered that I now COULDN'T sing the chorus line that took place at the same time as that solo line; I'd learned the solo part so thoroughly that when the orchestral cues came along l could only think of the solo line.

I've also since listened to broadcasts of that work & found that even when it's on as background music while I do something else that when the cue approaches I will be alert to it & think/sing the solo part.

Perhaps if I'd learned the recit line in the other work that thoroughly I might have been ok.

I should point out that by than I had 15-20 years experience of singing sometimes-complex music in a capella groups. I'd sight-sung another person's solos in a concert in a chamber choir (when the singer meant to sing something hadn't come to the concert & the conductor hadn't realised. That conductor did sort-of complain to me afterwards that I'd not sung the solo with [the rehearsed] light & shade ... but when I pointed out I'd not sung in those rehearsals & had only stepped-in because it was clear to me that no-one else would ... he apologised.) ]


ariD - a comment on a cultural desert ...

[hadaso]

The word GRID has many different meanings, almost all of which are related to a networks that results from sets of parallel lines or curves.

[JeremyNicoll]

for heaven's sake - everyone knows that - get a //griP// .... (tee hee)

[hadaso]

To go on a TRIP I can purchase airline tickets, or I can just use my car. I can also just go out and walk around, or I can just stay home and use some substances (however, I never tried the last option; perhaps it's time...)

[JeremyNicoll]

Drip --a versatile term that can refer to modern fashion, liquid drops, medical equipment, financial plans, or a marketing platform.

Also UK slang for someone "wet"; "wet" being slang for someone who is weak, feeble, or lacking a (metaphorical) backbone. Actually having no backbone means: victim of gruesome accident or murder (*).


* - not the avian meaning! There's a good joke [which might only work in the UK - if the terms are UK-specific] which goes: "For a murder there needs to be probable caws."

What? "Murder" is the collective noun for crows. "Caws" are the sounds crows make - but is also a pun of "cause". "Probable cause" is a legal term.

More puns following from this specific joke can be found at: https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/co...there_must_be/

[Bamb0]

Drop - Careful Jeremy,dont drop the package!

[JeremyNicoll]

I won't. I put it on a shoogly table - which was a risk - but then managed to ... Prop ... it up.

[hadaso]

ROPE - you can use a rope to tie it.