I don't know how old this is, but this is the first I've seen it. It's a
real gem.--JB
---------- Forwarded message ----------
THE MODERN MUSICOLOGIST
| SOLO
| I am the very model of a modern musicologist.
| When organizing papers I'm an excellent chronologist.
| I choose my words quite carefully, just like a lexicologist.
| I wrack my brain as thoroughly as any craneologist.
|
| I must admit that I'm a man of manifold ability.
| A person of importance should not rest upon humility,
| But rather learn to blow his horn at every possibility.
| I hope that this assertion don't encounter no hostility.
|
| CHORUS
| He hopes that this assertion don't encounter no hostility.
| He hopes that this assertion don't encounter no hostility.
|
| SOLO
| I've never had an interest in doing anthropology.
| I break out in a sweat just thinking of bacteriology.
| Oh, you can take theology, ecology, technology--
| I am devoted solely to the art of musicology.
|
| CHORUS
| Oh you can take theology, ecology, technology--
| He is devoted solely to the art of musicology.
|
| SOLO
| I love to turn up masterpieces written by nonentities.
| It doesn't make a hoot of difference if they've no identities.
| Some folk in other disciplines find this to be deplorable.
| If only they would sing the tunes they'd find them most adorable.
|
| They only love to listen to the tunes they know by Smetana.
| They think that music's only for the ears and not the retina.
| They think it's just a waste of time examining old codices,
| And then proceed to strain their eyes on Iliads and Odysseys.
|
| CHORUS
| They think it's just a waste of time examining old codices,
| And then proceed to strain their eyes on Iliads and Odysseys.
|
| SOLO
| I cannot comprehend the least in matters mathematical.
| I find the facts of chemistry completely enigmatical.
| Oh you can keep astrology, biology, sexology--
| My loyalty rests solely in the art of musicology.
|
| CHORUS
| Oh you can keep astrology, biology, sexology--
| His loyalty rests solely in the art of musicology.
|
| SOLO
| I'm very proud to specialize in things musicological.
| I much prefer rock music to the stuff that's geological.
| The greatest pleasures I recieve are perfectly synonymous
| With analyzing pieces that are written by Anonymous.
|
| I know that there are people who consider it iniquity
| For me to be so occupied with music from antiquity.
| But when I come across some old forgotten piece by Berlioz
| I get a shiver from my eyebrows right down to my very toes.
|
| CHORUS
| But when he comes across some old forgotten piece by Berlioz
| He gets a shiver from his eyebrows right down to his very toes.
|
| SOLO
| I'm very happy not to be an old numismatologist.
| I'm sure I'd find it poison working as a toxicologist.
| I'm not a sociologist, psychologist, zoologist--
| I am the very model of a modern musicologist.
|
| CHORUS
| He's not a sociologist, psychologist, zoologist--
|
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Jonathan Bellman (970) 351-2151
Chair, Dept. of Music History and Literature FAX: (970) 351-1923
School of Music jdbellm@bentley.unco.edu
College of Performing and Visual Arts
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO 80639
Les desleaulx ont la saison/Et des bons nessun ne tient compte,
Mais Bon Droit de trop se mesconte/De souffrir si grant desraison.
Je ne scais par quel achoison/Fortune ainsi hault les seurmonte...
[Traitors now have the season, and of good no one takes notice
But Right has greatly mis-counted in allowing such insanity.
I do not know the cause for Fortune to raise them so high...]
--Johannes Ockeghem, "Les Desleaulx" (15th century)
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