We know that Proms followers never, ever get hangovers. But just in case... here's some musical medicine.
A beautiful Bach motet
The Sixteen perform Komm, Jesu, Komm live at the 2016 Proms.
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Thomas Tallis’ extraordinary 40-part motet Spem in alium is one of the greatest choral works of early English music.
Spem in alium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet 經文歌 by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each, widely ...
Russians were nostalgic for the power they used to have. They seem to be getting the economy they used to have too http://econ.st/1wHUmnr…
Back to the lean years
AS THE rouble fell off a cliff over the past two days, a new skit appeared on Russian state television. A popular talk-show host asks his iPhone's voice-recognition...
ECON.ST
In a recent advert, GoldieBlox toys used the tune to a Beastie Boys song, "Girls", with newly recorded music and rewritten lyrics. GoldieBlox never got permission to use the tune, and soon received a complaint from the band. But the toymaker said that the song in its ad represented a parody, and was therefore legal. Does parody trump copyright? http://econ.st/1ccH4Ry
Franklin, "Way to Wealth"
Benjamin Franklin's "The Way to Wealth" ..... whose own name has a "solid Biblical resonance" (216) and whose speech is a parody of the Puritan sermon (217).
Twitter CEO Calls SOPA Blackout "Foolish"
Wikipedia and others will go dark for 24 hours in protest of controversial piracy legislation.
Web-Piracy Bill Faces Fiercer Fight
Supporters of antipiracy legislation face a struggle to regain momentum after the White House sided with irate Internet companies and users and complained that the proposal could hurt companies and undermine cybersecurity.
Wikipedia to Go Dark Over Piracy Bill
Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday to protest antipiracy legislation under consideration in Congress.
An Australian variety show host has apologized for a skit in which singers parodying the Jackson Five performed in blackface.
澳洲一綜藝節目主持人最近公開道歉，因為節目中有歌手把臉塗黑模仿傑克森兄弟表演。俞智敏
When I told someone that the Shuffle now holds 1,000 songs (in its 4 gigabytes of memory), he laughed. "It's like a 'Saturday Night Live' skit about smaller and smaller iPods," he said. "Or like the micro-cellphone in the movie 'Zoolander.'"
Over a decade ago, I remember seeing a "Saturday Night Live" skit that still stays with me. It was a talk show where all of the guests had one thing in common: they were all jerks or psychopaths whose one-time actions had created lifelong inconvenience for the rest of society.
There was that guy who put poison into a bottle of Tylenol, initiating the era of the childproof (and adult-proof) package. There was the hijacker, whose actions led to the nationwide construction of airport X-ray machines. And so on.
Labels Urge Baidu Boycott, piracy
Google Starts China Music Service
Google launched an online music service in China, a long-awaited move by the Internet giant and its record-label partners to make money in a market plagued by piracy.
Warner Bros. Pulls Out of South Korea
Time Warner's Warner Bros. is getting out of the business of distributing DVDs in South Korea because of Internet piracy.
Labels Urge Baidu
Chinese and international record companies called for an advertiser boycott of Baidu.com, the China's leading search engine by search volume, over complaints of music piracy.
Labels 唱片公司 指Chinese and international record companies
百度Baidu 為全中國網路搜索量最大之公司 (the China's leading search engine by search volume),
呼籲 敦促Urge 廣告提供商者就Baidu.com用戶的音樂盜版行為杯葛之( an advertiser boycott over complaints of music piracy. )
pi・ra・cy
━━ n. 海賊行為; 著作［特許］権侵害.
motet
Pronunciation: /məʊˈtɛt/
NOUN
A short piece of sacred choral music.
Example sentences
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French, diminutive of mot 'word'. Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet 經文歌 by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each, widely ...
skit
noun [C] ━━ n
1 （短い）戯文, （…の）風刺文, 寸劇, 小喜劇((on ...)).
2 あざけり.
a short amusing play which makes a joke of something:
I thought the skit on politicians was really funny.
n.
A short, usually comic dramatic performance or work; a theatrical sketch.
A short humorous or satirical piece of writing.
[Origin unknown.]
par·o·dy (păr'ə-dē)
n., pl., -dies.
A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. See synonyms at caricature.
The genre of literature comprising such works.
Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty: The trial was a parody of justice.
Music. The practice of reworking an already established composition, especially the incorporation into the Mass of material borrowed from other works, such as motets or madrigals.
tr.v., -died, -dy·ing, -dies.
To make a parody of. See synonyms at imitate.
[Latin parōdia, from Greek parōidiā : para-, subsidiary to; see para-1 + aoidē, ōidē, song.]
parodic pa·rod'ic (pə-rŏd'ĭk) or pa·rod'i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.
parodist par'o·dist n.
parodistic par'o·dis'tic adj.
文学などで、広く知られている既成の作品を、その特徴を巧みにとらえて、滑稽(こっけい)化・風刺化の目的で作り変えたもの。日本の替え歌・狂歌などもこの一種。
parody
noun
1 [C or U] writing, music, art, speech, etc. which intentionally copies the style of someone famous or copies a particular situation, making the features or qualities of the original more noticeable in a way that is humorous:
He was an eighteenth-century author who wrote parodies of other people's works.
There is a hint of self-parody in his later paintings.
Compare travesty.
2 [C] DISAPPROVING something which so obviously fails to achieve the effect that was intended that it is ridiculous:
"It was a parody of a trial, " said one observer.
parodist
noun [C]
a person who writes parodies
parody
verb [T]
to copy the style of someone or something in a humorous way:
One of the papers is running a competition in which you've got to parody a well-known author.
blackout
A short, comic vaudeville skit that ends with lights off.
The brandings, de-brandings and re-brandings have been come at so frenetic a pace that Stephen Colbert mocked the process on a recent segment of his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report."
Mr. Colbert presented a comically complicated chart showing the history of the AT&T brand as well as its offspring like BellSouth and SBC. He made the point that the old AT&T, which the federal government broke up in the 1980s for antitrust reasons, has by now almost reassembled itself. The skit, which is hilarious, can be watched on YouTube.com.
hilarious
hi·lar·i·ous (hĭ-lâr'ē-əs, -lăr'-, hī-)
adj.
Characterized by or causing great merriment.
[Latin hilaris, cheerful; see hilarity + -IOUS.]
hilariously hi·lar'i·ous·ly adv.
hilariousness hi·lar'i·ous·ness n.
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