![]() Parts of that article were rather sad- an audience of over 700, including musical professionals, whatever that meant, didn’t recognize music by Mozart or Beethoven, but they all knew Eleanor Rigby and Hard Day’s Night (and you are probably now humming one of those just because you read the titles), and they could name that tune based on one opening chord. I’m just a hundred years ahead of my time, that’s all. Great songs seem as though they’ve always existed, that they weren’t written by anyone. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they’ve always existed, like “Oh! Susanna,” “This Land Is Your Land” and “Frère Jacques.” I felt the tiniest smidgen better when I read this article by Daniel Levitin today:Ī hundred years from now, musicologists say, Beatles songs will be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people won’t know who wrote them. ![]() I shared this amusing trifle with the HG, who looked at me blankly and opened up that “I have failed as a homeschooling mother” abyss always precariously near my feet when she said, “That’s a Beatles song? I didn’t know that.” I always thought this was some sort of deliberate sixties era political gender bending statement, but it turns out it was just a mistake and Lenin Lennon didn’t like McCartney’s song well enough to redo it correctly, so they left it as is. In looking it up, I learned something interesting about the song (towards the end there’s a reversal in the word order so that Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face. Yesterday I ended a post with that phrase, but I wasn’t sure of the spelling. We convey this by simply giving a continental shrug and saying, “Ob la di.” After all, in the vast scheme of things this issue is fairly unimportant, will not affect anything that really matters in eternity, and there’s nothing we can do about it anyway.” Sometimes we wish to communicate something like, “I believe we have plumbed the depths of this conversational topic, and while it has been fascinating, it’s probably time to move on. It is part of the family shorthand around The Common Room to use quotes to communicate, and we consider all sources as grist for our mills, and we are not averse to yanking our quotes out of context. ![]() I think those commenting there will find the link further below a fun read. An interesting discussion has been going on in the comments section of this music related post of Pip’s (as a sidenote, it always fascinates me what does and doesn’t generate such interesting comments).
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