Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo
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Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo description
"Tempus porco nihil est," or, "Time to a pig means zilch," according to Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo, a very funny takeoff on the Gregorian chant craze by Sandra Boynton, the author of Chocolate: The Consuming Passion and other droll volumes. This amusing little book, complete with a well-sung 40-minute compact disc by the Ad Hog Camerata, is a note-perfect send-up of chant and the hype that surrounds it. At the same time, the book presents the musical chronicle of a day in the life of one seriously pretentious farm. Boynton's pictures--from the cover to the "illuminations"--are a delight. The cows speak for record company executives everywhere when they intone, "Non plaudite. Modo pecuniam jacite." (Don't applaud, just throw money.) This would make a perfect gift for a musical friend, and if no one gets it for you, you'd be well justified in buying it for yourself for a quick pick-me-up or chant overdose antidote. |
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Time to a listener had better mean zilch (grin)
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This may be the first product I have ever seen (anywhere!) for which every point of view expressed by the reviewers has validity. If you have even a passing background in Latin, Gregorian chant, and the Catholic Mass (along with considerable concentration and tolerance of Pig Latin), you'll probably find this send-up of CHANT very funny. If you lack one or more of these, then you'll likely wish the tempis would fugit faster, or else you'll get up to carpe the diem elsewhere.
This CD is really satire, not comedy, and therefore not to everyone's taste (either for adults or especially for children). I too wished the send-up of "Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O" had a citation of that venerable tune (preferably in a church mode). Peter Schickele's P.D.Q. Bach wouldn't have missed the chance, precisely because the latter is comedy rather than satire. (But then, Boynton & Co. do what they do seriously and on purpose; P.D.Q. did it - in his Missa Hilarious - by irreverent incompetence.)
That said, the straight-faced tone of the art and the music (leavened with Boynton's inimitable humor) has just the right touch for the subject, right down to the bells chiming the hours. Now if we could only persuade the author to do an album about the glories of chocolate...
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