HappySlip

I woke up with her singing in my head!

http://j.mp/c7BcNn

She's Christine of HappySlip from YouTube.

Canon in D

I listen to all kinds of music from Classical to Rock to Heavy Metal to Trash. I have gone from all sorts of genres like Religious music to Satanic music. My listening range of music is wide.

I first heard Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D on my walkman player as performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It was soothing and I kept asking why would Pachelbel name it Canon. I kept searching for the booming sounds but mostly they were of violins and bass.

The actual canon is played by the violins over the ground bass. In the beginning, the first violin plays the first two bars of the canon's melody. At this point, the second violin enters with the beginning of the melody, whilst the first violin continues with the next two bars of the canon. Then the third violin commences the canon, whilst the second violin plays the third and fourth bars and the first violin continues with the fifth and sixth. The three violin parts then follow one another at two bars' distance until the end of the piece. The canon becomes increasingly dense towards the middle of the piece as the note values become shorter (first in the first violin, then in the second, and finally in the third violin). Afterwards, the piece gradually returns to a less complex structure as the note values lengthen once more. There are 28 repetitions of the ground bass in total. The canon is relatively simple and does not make use of any advanced contrapuntal devices such as inversion, augmentation, diminution, etc.

The first 9 bars of the Canon in D: the violins play a three-voice canon over the ground bass which provides the harmonic structure.

Paul Mauriat and his Orchestra transformed this classical piece into semi-pop with the rhythmic beats of the drum. This is easy listening for those who find Classical Music not to their liking. You can get all his classic hits on ebay here.

I was surprised last year to hear Yngwie Malmsteen's version of Canon in D. It was loud as compared to the Classics but yeah I can still recognise the music.

When I hear him play, I smiled as this was something of a pleasant surprise. Pachelbel's Canon interpreted by heavy metal guitarist, Yngwei Malmsteen with his electric guitar.

But kudos goes to JerryC's version and played by funtwo who played with his electric guitar as posted in YouTube. It is of no wonder that it has received more than 59,947,393 views!

Just look at this magnificient guitar skill.

Post Edit:
Tuesday, 8 November 2011 @ 2130hrs

It seems that the video was recently deleted by YouTube due to some infringements.

I have found the original video by funtwoHimself.

So ... now ... ENJOY!!!

Ne Me Quitte Pas.

I had intended for the English song 'If You Go Away' to be familiarised and its lyrics to be remembered well. Did it linger in your head for the past few days?

How do you feel about the song? Any emotional outbursts?
What about the lyrics?
Did you find your life revolving around it?
Were you melancholic?

Well ... Since you have the right feelings of that song in English;
Get a feel of the FRENCH version!

The YouTube video shows Jacques Brel singing his song.
Yes ... HIS song.



Ne Me Quitte Pas
by Jacques Brel

Ne me quitte pas
Il faut oublier
Tout peut s'oublier
Qui s'enfuit déjà
Oublier le temps
Des malentendus
Et le temps perdu
A savoir comment
Oublier ces heures
Qui tuaient parfois
A coups de pourquoi
Le coeur du bonheur

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Moi je t'offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Oþ il ne pleut pas
Je creuserai la terre
Jusqu'après ma mort
Pour couvrir ton corps
D'or et de lumière
Je ferai un domaine
Oþ l'amour sera roi
Oþ l'amour sera loi
Oþ tu seras reine

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Je t'inventerai
Des mots insensés
Que tu comprendras
Je te parlerai
De ces amants-là
Qui ont vu deux fois
Leurs coeurs s'embraser
Je te raconterai
L'histoire de ce roi
Mort de n'avoir pas
Pu te rencontrer

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

On a vu souvent
Rejaillir le feu
De l'ancien volcan
Qu'on croyait trop vieux
Il est para¡±t-il
Des terres brulées
Donnant plus de blé
Qu'un meilleur avril
Et quand vient le soir
Pour qu'un ciel flamboie
Le rouge et le noir
Ne s'épousent-ils pas

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Ne me quitte pas
Je ne vais plus pleurer
Je ne vais plus parler
Je me cacherai là
A te regarder
Danser et sourire
Et à t'écouter
Chanter et puis rire
Laisse-moi devenir
L'ombre de ton ombre
L'ombre de ta main
L'ombre de ton chien

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

That's an old video and the sound does not come out right.

I prefer to listen to a female voice, hence, here's Nina Simone's version of Ne Me Quitte Pas ...



Recognise the music? Remember the English lyrics?
Here's the translation of the French lyrics.

We must forget
All we can forget all we did till now
Let’s forget the cost of the breath
We’ve spent saying words unmeant
And the times we’ve lost hours that must destroy
Never knowing why everything must die at the heart of joy

Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me

I’ll bring back to you the pearls of rain
From a distant domain where rain never fell
And though I grow old I’ll keep mining the ground
To deck you around in gold and light
I’ll build you a domain where love’s everything
Where love is king and you are queen

Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me

For you I’ll invent
Words and what they meant only you will know
Tales of lovers who fell apart and then fell in love again
There’s a story too that I can confide
Of that king who died from not meeting you

Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me

And often it’s true that flames spill anew
From ancient volcano’s we thought were too old
When all’s said and done scorched fields of defeat
Could give us more wheat than the fine April sun
And when evening is nigh with flames overhead
The black and the red aren’t they joined in the sky

Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me

Don’t leave me
I will cry no more
I will talk no more hide myself
To look at you and see you dance and smile
And hear you sing and laugh
Let me be for you the shadow of your shadow
The shadow of your hand the shadow of your dog

Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me
Don’t leave me

Subhanallah!

The French lyrics is more romantic and I tend to identify with the poet.

'For you I’ll invent
Words and what they meant only you will know
Tales of lovers who fell apart and then fell in love again
There’s a story too that I can confide
Of that king who died from not meeting you'

hmmm .... This scenario is familiar :-/

'Let me be for you the shadow of your shadow
The shadow of your hand the shadow of your dog'

Oh how deep his feelings are for this person!

Like the previous post, I dedicate these videos to
'the great pretender'
who has been secretly reading my blog.
I thank you, honestly!
;-)

By the way, today is the 2nd of March and that means, it is the 4th year that I get to know NFD, my Light of Joy.

She is no longer the NFD I knew years ago
but I still love her.

To her I'd love to say 'Ne Me Quitte Pas'
in my usual Scottish accent ... hehehe

* mmmmmuackz *
;-)

Janis Ian - At Seventeen.

There is this someone out there close to me who has this low self-esteem about her appearance. To me she is really beautiful and has a nice figure too.

Unfortunately, she does not believe me and will not accept what I have been telling her.

Too bad, she does not read this blog but if by perchance she happens to step afoot here, she would realise that she is not the only girl having this thinking about oneself.

A song-writer singer, Janis Ian when she was seventeen, had these thoughts about herself.

She thought that she was ugly and nobody would accept her.

So she wrote wonderful lyrics.
She sang this beautiful song.

When writing the song, she was hoping that people would focus on her music and not on her ugliness.

I pasted her lyrics before the YouTube video so that we read it first before watching her performance.

Janis Ian - At Seventeen

I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
and high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired
The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces
lacking in the social graces
desperately remained at home
inventing lovers on the phone
who called to say - come dance with me
and murmured vague obscenities
it isn't all it seems at seventeen

A brown eyed girl in hand me downs
whose name I never could pronounce
said - Pity please the ones who serve
They only get what they deserve
And the rich relationed hometown queen
marries into what she needs
with guarantee of company
and haven for the elderly

Remember those who win the game
lose the love they sought to gain
in debentures of quality and dubious integrity
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
in dull surprise when payment due
exceeds accounts received at seventeen

To those of us who knew the pain
of valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
when choosing sides for basketball
It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
when dreams were all they gave for free
to ugly duckling girls like me

We all play the game and when we dare
we cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
that call and say - Come dance with me
and murmur vague obscenities
at ugly girls like me, at seventeen

Ramadhan Kareem.

To all my muslim brothers and sisters
be they known or unknown to me,
I bid them a wonderful and fruitful Ramadhan Kareem.

May Allah's blessings be upon your holy rituals
and may our paths be the one that will lead us
to Jannah in the Hereafter.
Ameen.

CoTu - Lord of Ramadan

A gentle reminder :
Stop the song 'I Who Have Nothing'
before playing this video.

YouTubers Meet-Up 7.7.07

I have the pictures for Gentarasa 2007 but am still too busy to update.

In the meantime, I stumbled upon this video clip. She reminded me of someone I loved dearly.

It's a video about the meeting up of youtubers around the world on 7th July 2007.

It's funny and cute.