A Mental Singing Lesson

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Hi Billy,

I think Tom Waits has done all of the above in his career. His work is far from just technique as the songs he and his wife write are as individual a statement as the voice that he has somehow managed to cultivate to sing them. I think in a lot of ways his delivary is more akin to theatre and therefore is often scrutinized by different criteria then the other performers you mentioned except maybe Armstrong. Most importantly I like waits because I think he is on an artistic snipe hunt. When I listen to his music I, for one, hear the bushes rustling.

-b
 
Thanks for the reply Terocious :) ....

I've never given much thought to him (Tom Waits) (Good, bad or otherwise), I've just more or less considered him "Successfully Unique" as a performer. Your thought on him perhaps having a theatric approach is incredibly poignant and will certainly go through my mind everytime I hear him from now on.
 
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chessparov said:
melismatic misdemeanors
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What a great phrase!!

Yes, one of the things that separates a great musician from the others is the recognition that you are performing a song first, and a technical skill second. That applies to singing, drums, guitar, etc.

Steve Vai overplayed like crazy on the last Whitesnake album, and as a result, I still hold him responsible for their demise...

Michael Stipe is a great singer, but rarely shows off.

Chris
 
Yes, one of the things that separates a great musician from the others is the recognition that you are performing a song first, and a technical skill second.
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Words to live by !!!!!
 
3 entries found for threnody.
thren·o·dy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (thrn-d)
n. pl. thren·o·dies
A poem or song of mourning or lamentation.


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[Greek thrnidi : thrnos, lament + aoid, id, song; see ode.]
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thre·nodi·al (thr-nd-l) or thre·nodic (-ndk) adj.
threno·dist n.

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threnody

\Thren"o*dy\, n. [Gr. ?; ? a dirge + ? a song. See Threne, and Ode.] A song of lamentation; a threnode. --Sir T. Herbert.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


threnody

n : a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person [syn: dirge, coronach, lament, requiem]


Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
 
I actually came across the word in a science fiction book I was reading, a few days after posting in this thread. So I looked it up and was quite suprised to learn what it meant. I think it's a word that doesn't quite fit what it is describing. I'm still trying to imagine what it would sound like when used within the context of a lyric. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to post it's meaning.
 
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