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...When did "sleeps" become a generally appropriate synonym for "nights?" Today I saw it on a sign for a Christmas pageant of all things. I don't know that I dislike it, but it seems overly trendy right now. ...OK, I decided: I don't like it, for that reason.

Speaking of trendy, but still fun, this might be amusing 'fer you Cthulhu fans (thanks saintpookie!)

And the memory I put in my laptop two weeks ago seems to have an error. Today, otherwise stable apps have just started spontaneously crashing. Not happy. I expect I'll be able to get a swap on whichever stick it is, but it's still going to be a pain.

For Choral Music aficionados

Here we have an entry in the "Filing Oops" department:


“[T]he forty-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno ... by Alessandro Striggio languished throughout the twentieth century disguised as a nameless four-part Mass by Strusco. Since such a work would appear to be entirely banal, and since no such composer ever existed, scholars have not been in a rush to study this music.”


mirabilis_syn :

http://mirabilis.ca/2007/12/02/lost-16th-century-mass-discovered-by-berkeley-music-scholar/

Lost 16th-Century Mass Discovered by Berkeley Music Scholar.

More than 400 years after Italian composer Alessandro Striggio wrote his extravagant 40-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, it has been rediscovered by a Berkeley music scholar who identified the work and rescued it from obscurity.

Although most of Striggio’s piece is in 40 different voice parts, the last movement is for 60 separate voices (five 12-part choirs) and is the only known piece of 60-part counterpoint in the history of Western music. "It’s one of the first great pieces to use architecture and space, with musical phrases physically moving around the ring from choir to choir," says Professor of Music Davitt Moroney, who after years of research located a complete set of partbooks for the mass in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. "It is an intellectual achievement of the highest order. There are other large choral works, but Striggio’s mass is unique, with its five eight-part choirs. This is Florentine art at its most spectacular."


I wonder if anyone will ever get to perform this. *hopes*