[ExI] pistols

[Adrian Tymes]

I am aware of a number of singers who are articulate when singing.

Classical music with lyrics tends not to be performed by them.

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:09 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I quit paying attention to the words in songs long ago.  Very few singers,
> Billy Joel is one, articulate enough for me to understand.  It's my
> deafness.  Pop music seems to be mostly about the words.  Tuneful songs
> seem to have died somewhere in the 60s - for me.  Practically no songs are
> worth listening to just for the music.  Of course the Requiem is one of
> them.  bill w
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 10:54 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 8:38 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The impact is much reduced when, as I have often experienced such
>>> things, the performance and acoustics conspire to make the lyrics an
>>> unintelligible a capella that contrasts with the music - Adrian
>>>
>>> Maybe you didn't realize that it was in Latin?  ������  bill w
>>>
>>
>> Latin has words that are distinct from one another, and which are
>> pronounced, in contrast to the sound I heard.
>>
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