2024年4月20日星期六

run, trill, roulade, sforzando, vocal artist. gym, vocals, vocal gymnastics, castrato,

Ukraine Aid Divides Republicans, After Trump Tones Down His Resistance

Donald Trump’s most vocal allies in the House, however, were loudly against providing assistance as Ukraine fights Russia’s invasion.

There was a depth and meaning behind every trill, a meaning behind every run, a meaning behind every sforzando that it is the responsibility of the vocal artist to digest and spew out as a revelation of the meaning of the music.

Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect

By JOSH TYRANGIEL

Why do pop vocals suddenly sound perfect--or intentionally imperfect?

I've always loved the kind of novels that offer an alternative view of the present, where the plot is predicated on one key event in history playing out differently. For instance, there's Kingsley Amis's The Alteration , set in England nearly five centuries after the Protestant Reformation didn't take place. The Catholic Church is unchallenged in its authority, and castrati still sing in the choir.

If we degenerate and allow to continue to degenerate the approach to the vocal art so that it only becomes vocal gymnastics, then because there is no longer the element which is essential (which Beethoven articulated when he said, "I write from the heart to the heart") if that element is totally missing, and if we write from the ear to the ear, if we appeal to the audience through nothing but mere vocal gymnastics, if those gymnastics and that technical ability does not serve the higher meaning, the more profound understanding, the revelation of human emotion with which the great composers are concerned, then we are going to lose our audience just as certainly as the castrati was done away with. Why? Because they were no longer capable of projecting a true human emotion. They became only the emperor's mechanical canary.

gym
noun
1 [U] gymnastics, especially when done as a subject at school:
a gym skirt
gym shoes
Class 3 do gym on a Wednesday afternoon.

2 [C] a large room with weights for lifting, horizontal bars and other equipment for exercising the body and increasing strength:
I go to the gym twice a week.

3 [U] US FOR physical education

vocal (OF THE VOICE)
adjective
relating to or produced by the voice, either in singing or speaking:
a piece of vocal music
The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.

vocal
noun [C usually plural]
the singing in a piece of popular music:
The vocals are shared by two members of the band.
Is that Tamsin Palmer on vocals (= singing)?

vocally
adverb

vocalist

noun [C]
a person who sings, especially with a group who play popular music:
She won the Grammy Award for Best Female Vocalist in 1976.

vocalize
verb [T]
to express feelings or ideas in words:
Most patients find it very difficult to vocalize feelings of shame.

gym・nas・tic

━━ a. 体操の, 体育の.

gym・nas・tics

　━━ n. 体操; 訓練; 体育（科）.

vocal artist vs vocal gymnastics

castrati 複數
《閹人歌手(Castrato)的興盛與衰亡》，可以在《老實人第12章老婦人遭遇的下文》讀到：「我生在那不勒斯，那兒每年閹割二三千名兒童，….. 有的因此得到一副比女人還美麗的嗓子，還有的將統治國家。」
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Nautilus Recalls Bowflex® Home Gyms Due to Risk of Injury

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

Name of product: Bowflex® Ultimate 2 Home Gyms

Units: About 78,000 (about 68,000 home gyms were recalled on December 6, 2007)

Importer: Nautilus Inc., of Vancouver, Wash.

Hazard: The home gym's horizontal seat rail is designed to be latched in a vertical position for storage. If the seat rail is not manually latched, it can fall unexpectedly on the user or a bystander, posing a risk of serious injury.

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sfor・zan・do

［It.］ a., ad., n. （pl. ～s, sfor・zan・di

）【楽】特に強く［強めた］; そのような（和）音.

run

Music. A rapid sequence of notes; a roulade.

roulade

(rū-läd')

Music. An embellishment consisting of a rapid run of several notes sung to one syllable.
A slice of meat rolled around a filling and cooked.

[French, from rouler, to roll, from Old French roler. See roll.]

━━ n. 走ること; ひと走り, 競走; 立候補 ((for)); 狩猟; （単数形で）短い旅行; 行程; 進行; 運転; （交通機関の）運行, 路線, 航路; ゲレンデ; 流れること; 流出, 流れ; 流出量［時間］; 〔米〕小川; 水管, パイプ; 流行, 注文殺到 ((on)); （銀行の）取付け ((on)); （the ～）方向, 成行き; 気配（trend）; 流れのように続くこと, 一続き, 連続; 連続興行; 【トランプ】（配られた）そろいの続き札; 並(なみ), 種類, 階級（class） (the common [ordinary] ～普通の種類, 並）; 通路; 放牧場, 飼育場 (a chicken ～); （the ～）使用［出入］の自由; 操業［運転］（時間）; 【コンピュータ】実行; 作業量; （発行）部数; 【野・クリケット】（得）点; 【楽】走句; （魚の）移動する群れ; （靴下の）伝線; 〔話〕（the ～s）下痢.