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Michaël Ball (michaelball@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2017 15:01:08 EST Michaël Ball

I can't get this out of my head.
"Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone."
The timbre is intended to imitate a violin.
(Seen at https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/12/01/sound-and-sense-3/)
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  Sound and Sense
  
  By Greg Ross from Futility Closet
  
  In this passage from Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur, the mail-clad Sir Bedivere carries his wounded king down to a lake by a narrow path along a cliff: Dry clash’d his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang’d round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon. “This passage is particularly interesting in the sudden change from the harsh imitative sounds...

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