LPPM MMV "Deeper Human Significance"

[Dave Monroe]

"In the other room he heard what sounded like a chorus
of roaring boys, chanting dirty limericks. The girl
came in and said, 'My god, it's Brennan and his
friends.'
   "'Oh goodo,' Siegel said. 'They seem to be in fine
voice.' Indeed, they were. In his suddenly amiable
state it seemed to Siegel that this account of the
young fellow named Cheever who had an affair with a
beaver took on Deeper Human Significance, was gilded
with a certain transcendental light which reminded him
of that final trio from Faust, where the golden stairs
come down and Margarethe ascends to heaven. 'Really
lovely,' he mused."  (MMV, p. 4)


"dirty limericks"

A limerick is a short, often humorous and ribald poem
developed to a very specific structure. 

Structure The rhyme scheme is usually aabba, with a
very rigid meter. The first, second, and fifth lines
are three metrical feet; the third and fourth two
metrical feet. The rhythm can be called an anapestic
foot, two short syllables and then a long, the reverse
of dactyl rhythm. The first line often ends with a
person's name and/or a location (geographical
limericks). A true limerick is supposed to have a kind
of twist to it. This may lie in the final line, or it
may lie in the way the rhymes are often intentionally
tortured, or both. Iambs are often substituted for an
initial anapestic foot.

http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Limerick%20%28poetry%29

E.g., ...

There was a young fellow named Cheever
Who had an affair with a beaver ...

John Cheever (1912-1982)

American short story writer and novelist, called the
"Chekhov of the suburbs". Cheever's main theme was the
spiritual and emotional emptiness of life. He
especially described the manners and morals of
middle-class, suburban America, with an ironic humour
which softened his basically dark vision....

[...]

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachussetts. His
father owned a shoe factory and was relatively wealthy
until he lost his business in the 1929 stock market
crash and deserted his family....

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cheever.htm


"that final trio from Faust"

Faust (ii). Opéra in five acts by Charles-François
Gounod to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
after Carré’s Faust et Marguerite and Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe’s Faust, Part I (in the French translation
by gérard de Nerval); Paris, Théâtre Lyrique, 19 March
1859.

[...]

5.iii The interior of a prison Marguerite has been
incarcerated for infanticide, but through the offices
of Méphistophélès Faust has obtained the keys to her
cell. Diminished 7ths resolving to 6–4 chords create
an ecstatic atmosphere when Marguerite awakens to the
sound of Faust’s voice. They sing a love duet (‘Oui
c’est toi je t’aime’) in which past moments of bliss
are recalled musically in the transition between the
first set of parallel strophes and the cabalette (the
latter section, ‘Viens! viens! quittons ces lieux!’,
appeared for the first time in Italian-language
editions in 1864 and is absent from most French
editions). Faust begs her to flee with him.
Méphistophélès suddenly appears and urges Faust and
Marguerite to follow him. Marguerite resists and calls
for divine protection, singing the wide-spanning
heroic melody ‘Anges purs, anges radieux’ in an
ascending stepwise sequence. The goal of the sequence
is the C major of the concluding apotheosis ‘Christ
est ressuscite!’ (recalling the tonality of
Marguerite’s supplication in the church scene). Faust
falls to his knees in prayer as Marguerite’s soul
rises to heaven.

http://www.operamusic.com/operamusic/faustgounod.html

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.charles-gounod.com/vi/oeuvres/operas/faust.htm


		
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