Friday, 19 December 2008

Yahweh, I know you're a pear

God songs from school, they stick in your head. Askew, but they stick.

I saw a bass clef today and it took me two hours to remember what it was. For a goodly while I thought it was a rest. Then I thought, no, it's a fermata; then I thought, well whatever it is, it looks familiar. When I did remember, I was horrified. Fancy not recognising a bass clef. In my very feeble defence it wasn't in context, it was a tattoo on the nape of someone's neck.

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  1. Well, I wouldn't know a bass clef if it jumped on my head so I think you are doing fine.x
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  2. Hey - my life/career was as an opera singer/music professor before switching (ha) to my full-time severe ME "job" eight years ago. The other day I was listening to a cello concerto and could not for the life of me remember a most basic musical term. I was trying to comment about it to my husband using words like "you know - the fancy notes the soloist uses at the end of a movement - usually the final movement . . . you know - sometimes written by the composer, but often improvised by individual performers . . . you know!!!!" . . . Five days later I woke up and blurted out "CADENZA!", waking my husband with a start! Not exactly relevant to my could-not-perform/teach-to-save-my-life health status, but nonetheless, quite a relief to remember :-) -Kandice
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  3. But NMJ, I've known what a bass clef is since I was five!

    Hi Kandice, nice to see you here again, that is such a funny story and makes me feel much better. (Your old job sounds better than your current one.) I do those elaborate explanations when I can't find a word, too.
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