GRGR: Of Andrew's Comments

[Andrew Dinn]

Dan Schmidt writes:

> I don't have the lyrics here, but the rhythm is something like

> 1      2      3      4      1      2      3      4
> Yadada ya  da ya  da ya  da ya    (have a ba-na -na)

Almost but I think your `have a ba-na -na' has one syllable wrong

> 1      2      3      4      1      2         3   4
> Yadada ya  da ya  da ya  da ya    (have a ba-na -na)

>    Try to put it in triplet half notes and you'll fall all over
>    yourself.

Well, given what Osbie is doing with the banana in triplets to do it 3
times for every beat is quite a pace. How old is he?

But, I think you are righ that the triplets are on each beat. Not only
are the initial `Yadada' and the trailing `have a ba-' triplets but
the `ya da' pairs are triplets with the ya being a tied pair. i.e. the
rhythm is
	
   3         3         3         3         3         3     
 ______    ______    ______    ______  |  ____      ______   
 |  |  |   |  |  |   |  |  |   |  |  | |  |  |  |   |  |  |   |    |
.| .| .|  .| .| .|  .| .| .|  .| .| .| | .| .| |   .| .| .|  .|   .|
           `-'       `-'       `-'     |  `-'       `-'       
Ya da da  ya    da  ya    da   ya   da    ya       Have a ba- na-  na					       

> Here's the rhythm I hear for "The Sanjak of Novi Pazar," by the way
> (accented syllables are in caps):
> 
> 1     +    2   +    3       +      4  +
> NO    -bo      -dy  KNOWS   where     it
> IS    on   the MAP
> WHO   ev       -er  THOUGHT it        could
> CAUSE such a   FLAP

> etc.  Does that sound right to people?  Maybe I'm going overboard, but
> I think having an idea of how the songs sound is important.  You think
> I'm being pedantic now, wait until we get to Rossini vs. Beethoven!

Not sure about this one but your repeated quaver crotchet quaver in
the first bar sounds mighty odd to my ear. I think I get the same
rhythm for this one as for `have a banana' but that's probably only by
association. Just wait until we get to the Emily Dickinson and start
singing it to the tune of `The Yellow Rose of Texas' (all her poems
fit - no really).


Andrew Dinn
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