"ChoirMan" <jpiano12@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:5d3a6529-d1ff-4029-bc03-55c056a498af@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dear Latinists,
>
> I've recently convened a men's trio that peforms 14th- and 13th-
> century music, and I'm working on a cool name for the ensemble. I
> wanted to include the word "Trio" and then something meaning "man". I
> was thinking something like "Trio Homme" (French, not Latin, I know)
> or "Trio Vir" or words to that effect. Any thoughts or suggestions?
>
> Thank you -
>
> ChoirMan
When I read this what came straight to mind was a kind of almost
debilitating impression of just about the worst two centuries on human
record; the 13th and 14th with the Mongol invasions and then the Black
Death. (Perhaps equalled in scale (and most certainly in the scale of
man's inhumanity to man) by the 20th century.)
Well, that's long before Palestrina. What kind of music survives from
those centuries with their ****ps of fools and the Grim Reaper?
At all events it'll be a million miles away from the joyous sounds of
Handel and Mozart; and Latin will certainly be an appropriate language
for it.
I suggest "Saecula crudelissima"; the cruellest of times.
Ed
|
