Wednesday, February 11, 2009
February 11, 2009: Help me track down a dastardly association
I'm tossing this plea out into the Internet ether...
I associate certain melodies with certain meters. I can't help it. I'll be reading some blank verse and all of a sudden the Blank Verse Melody will lodge itself into my brain and throw me off for a few seconds. I don't know where it started or came from. Undoubtedly I heard something in my childhood and it just stuck. It'd have to be something from childhood because they're simple melodies which always come back to the home tone and such. Nevertheless, I have no idea *what* they are.
It's bugged me for years. So here they are, solfege included:
IAMBIC PENTAMETER:
Do so so so do re do re mi do
Do so so so do re do re mi do
(repeat until end of sonnet or verse or speech)
LIMERICK (this one even has optional elaboration! eeeagh why do I do this to myself)
So do do do do re me do (so la do)
so do do do do ti do re (ti la so)
so ti ti ti ti
so ti ti ti ti
la so so so so la ti do (mi re re do ti do)
Anyone got anything?
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