[Magdalen] On a humorous note

[Grace Cangialosi]

"Snobby-gesima"!!  Love it!

> On Oct 10, 2015, at 4:00 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> BS. The song has meter. The silly pseudo-parody has four/four meter.
> The words play with that meter, and avoid the dreadfully boring lockstep
> most hymns are saddled with.
> Actually the hymn is using a style in which the words are set in a pattern
> much like the rhythmic sound they would make if spoken. This is a somewhat
> new idea, dating from Claudio Monteverdi and his excellent student,
> Heinrich Schuetz. So since it's been around for about five hundred years,
> it should be no surprise that some areas of Christianity still haven't
> gotten the word.
> 
> So much of Christian putative song is to music what bugle calls are to
> actual music.  "I know that tone! It means we're in the fifth Sunday after
> Snobby-gesima! in the season of the Unfounded Assumption!"
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> A new verse to one of the worst crafted hymns of all time.  It's on my
>> short list of hymns I hate most.
>> 
>> http://www.episcopalcafe.com/bread-of-life-one-more-verse/
>> 
>> Susan
>> 
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