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France invades Russia

6/18/2025

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11/6/1967
the initial release date of 
War and Peace
based on the historical novel by Leo Tolstoy
published in 1867, 100 years before


French invasion of Russia
  • aka the Russian campaign (Campagne de Russie)
  • aka Patriotic War of 1812
  • aka Second Polish War​

Tchaikovsky's Overture was written to celebrate Russia's victory over Napoleon's invading forces in 1812, incorporating the "Marseillaise" with Russian anthems and folk music. Tsar Alexander I ruled the Russian Empire from 1801 to 1825 and was the leader who defeated Napoleon.

Russian composers of the time were very patriotic, including Tchaikovsky. While appreciating European musical traditions, he embraced the Russian identity and incorporated Russian folk music and themes into his compositions.


Often played on the Fourth of July, American Independence Day, the music is not associated with the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States. Indian tribes allied with both sides, many joining the opposing team.

​Riders and horses know how to fall.
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log rollers cartoon

6/16/2025

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le valse du maître draveur     the waltz of the master log driver
sent to me by Bill Keevers, St. Stephen's Sacramento, married one year
​H.I.H. Marilyn


​Log rolling
Competitive sport
Two men stand on a floating log and try to make each other slip and fall into gurgling water.
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B C R

6/11/2025

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Baroque, Classical, Romantic
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Nico Vinz Am I Wrong

6/10/2025

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1995
This is American, not African, and filmed in America.

2013
​This is African, not American, and filmed in Africa.
Reject an American's concept of what it means to be African.
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1959

felix Latin for happy
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Tristesse by Chopin

6/7/2025

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France and California
1832 age 22 "troubled" tristesse in French, tristitia in Latin
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Usually translated as "sadness", Chopin's effort seems so effortless, as if he wrote it out on the first try. This piece is one of his most viewed on YT, follows an A-B-A pattern, and is for a more mature student of piano.
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As with Shakespeare, better choices for high school boys are Julius Caesar and Henry V. To this day, I despise Hamlet's indecisiveness as uninspiring. My hunch is that males in the audience in Shakespeare's day booed him.

Update: I attended an excellent musical given at Folsom HS by a homeschooling group, both boys and girls, of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
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Stephen Moreno OSB

6/5/2025

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Spain and Australia
Dom Moreno OSB (1889 – 1953)
  • Australian classical composer
  • born Spain where he became a novice Benedictine
  • ordained New Norcia, Western Australia
  • prolific/respected artist
  • choral works published for ceremonial religious occasions
  • boree log - firewood
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Solfeggio invented

6/4/2025

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Western music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_of_Arezzo​
  • Guido of Arezzo (c. 991–992 – after 1033), Benedictine monk, was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of high medieval music. He is the inventor—or by some, developer—of modern staff notation that had a massive influence on the development of Western musical notation and practice.
  • AI says Paul the Deacon, Benedictine, wrote Ut queant laxis.

​Ut queant laxis resonare fibris translates to "So that with loosened voices, they may resound" or "So that with loosened cords, they may resound". The hymn is famous for its use of the syllables "ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la" to teach the notes of the musical scale. As we know, monks were the first educators of priests. Ha-ha. My musical theory is that the last priest on Earth or anywhere will precede Armageddon.
Johann Sebastian, Lutheran 1643-1750
Son Johann Christian, Catholic 1735-1782
Son Carl Phillipp, Lutheran 1714-1788
Latin was a subject they studied.
Near-Catholic was not enough.
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The History of Music

6/4/2025

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Western music
The second, third, fourth, and fifth periods are exclusively Catholic or near-Catholic. The sixth and seventh are mixed but largely Catholic or Orthodox.
  1. Ancient Greece and Rome (800 BC to AD 400): complex music theory, with composers like Pythagoras and Aristoxenus making significant contributions, often integrated with poetry and drama and instruments like the aulos (wind instrument) and the lyre (stringed instrument)
  2. Early Catholic (400 - 1150): transition from Ancient to Medieval influenced by the rise of religion, Gregorian Chant playing a crucial role
  3. Medieval (1150 - 1400): monophonic chant (Gregorian chant firmly rooted) leading to the beginnings of polyphony
  4. Renaissance (1400 - 1600): rebirth with the development of new vocal forms like the madrigal and rise of instrumental music
  5. Baroque (1600-1750): elaborate, energetic, angelic ornamentation, improvisation, and the rise of opera
  6. Classical (1750 - 1830): clarity, balance, and reason with the development of standardized orchestras and sonata form
  7. Romantic (1830 - 1900): emotional expression with longer and more complex forms and the rise of the virtuoso
  8. Modern (1900 - present): experimentation, atonality, serialism, minimalism, electronic,  cross-cultural strains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_musicians​​
​If I can be a contradiction, an observer, neither plebian nor patrician, the goal is achieved.
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Exultate Deo

6/4/2025

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​Exult Alphabet can't translate Latin. It might make bad translations,
in which case I would ask Alexander's father to code extra-departmental confoundment.
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his sister dies

6/2/2025

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dance for two
Grand Pas de Deux, Nutcracker
painting by Charles William Wyllie


Mr. T wrote this music after his sister Alexandra died. 
She was 49, he 50, so the creator selected a painting as they would have been in their youth, and it's a very fine selection.

The Mill on the Floss
First published in three volumes on 4/4/1860 by William Blackwood and Sons, the novel follows the same theme. Its author is George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
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the strange mandolin

5/31/2025

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Picture
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Paolini_-_The_Concert.jpg
Title: The Concert
Artist: Pietro Paolini (1603–1681)
Date: between 1620 and 1630
Genre: Baroque
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: height 39.5 in, width 52.5 in
Red-haired Vivaldi of Venice, and a Catholic priest who received a dispensation, taught girls violin and wrote for the mandolin, which is not a member of the violin family. It belongs to the lute family, while the violin is the soprano member of the violin family. A guitar is a lute family member. They are plucked.
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Jack Jones in Vietnam

5/21/2025

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1st Lieutenant Sharon Marie Forman, staff nurse at the 85th Evacuation Hospital in Qui Nhon, Vietnam, served a year in 1965 and a subsequent year in Japan. Elevated to the rank of colonel, Col. Sharon Forman Bystran became the Chief of Clinical Nursing at Walter Reed Hospital and is now retired.
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Elvis Presley Latin

5/20/2025

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United States
"It's Now or Never"

...in Latin...
​https://freshairarchive.org/segments/tribute-elvis-elvis-latin

"Aeneid Your Love" (!)
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...in English...

"The Shadow of Your Smile"
​Jerry Vale, my dad's favorite male singer
Both of us agreed that if we could ask for a talent, it would be singing.
​My father Joe died 28 years ago, and I can still remember his voice.
He's never appeared in any of my stories. Words cannot describe.


The high note - Now - is what tenors hope to reach.
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Jeremiah laments

5/8/2025

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Old Testament Book of Jeremias, Latin with English subtitles
​ https://www.drbo.org/chapter/28001.htm
Saint Jerome translated the Old Testament into Latin. His translation, which also included the New Testament, became the standard Latin version of the Bible and is known as the Vulgate. Jerome completed this work between AD 383 and 404. He used Hebrew and Greek manuscripts for his translations.
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The Douay-Rheims translators completed their work on the Vulgate in 1582 and 1609-1610, giving us the first English Bible. Bishop Richard Challoner (1691 - 1781), a leader of English Roman Catholics, made some revisions to the Douay, and it became the authorized edition for English Catholics.


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Litaniae Lauretanae

5/8/2025

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Music
Johann {John} Haydn, younger brother of Joseph, Austrian family

The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Marian litany approved in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V, and is also known as the Litany of Loreto, after its first-known place of origin, the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto in Italy, where its usage was recorded as early as 1558.
The music is performed live.
Latin is not dead.


Art
Mariano Rossi (b. 1731 Sciacca, d. 1807 Rome)

style (if you say so): anachronistic Rococo amid ascendant neoclassical environment

This art is at auction.

​824
MARIANO ROSSI

(Sciacca, 1731 - Roma, 1807)
Bozzetto raffigurante l'Allegoria del Trionfo della Chiesa
Olio su tela, cm 70X90
ESTIMATE € 2,000 - 3,000
Provenienza:
Lucerna, Fischer, 21 maggio 1992, lotto 2097 (come Mariano Rossi)
Londra, Christie's, 29 ottobre 1993, lotto 48 (come Mariano Rossi)
Collezione privata

https://wannenesgroup.com/lots/370-8240-mariano-rossi/
​

(Where to put it? On the ceiling, Latin caelum "heaven, sky", see celestial, extended to the paneling itself from late 14c., then to lath-and-plaster work, the meaning "interior overhead surface of a room" attested by 1530s, by late 19c. Installation Instructions in five languages on back. 1 View before dinner and drinks. 2 Do not invite family. 3 Family might lie down on the floor and fall asleep. 4 You are stuck with them until morning. As a result of the 145% tariff, therefore, if you are an American buyer, Chinese characters will be ripped off.)
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Field & Constable

5/7/2025

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John Field, Irish creator of the Nocturne              1782 Dublin - 1837 Moscow
John Constable, English landscape artist           1776 E. Bergholt -1837 London

If you can do one creative thing, even if it kills you, do it. That might be what you were put here on dirt or sea to do.
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typical Novus Ordo

5/5/2025

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Chicago
5th Sunday of Lent
(Good Shepherd Sunday)


A half-hour Sunday Mass? If you can't afford more on TV, don't do it.

I'm not making a sacrifice. You are, bro, and this is not a memorial.
Did you make the colorful hanging banner, or Cupid?

This is a typical sermon in the sinless Novus Ordo church. I can't remember a single sermon from years in such places. Exceptions were sermons given by Father William Ryan SJ (late 60s, early 70s) on his imprisonment in communist China, MIA for one year, 1951, superior and parents not knowing where he was.
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Midnight Mass, Cardinal Meyer, 1956 (Chicago Catholic Archives)​
Picture
Protestors would be disappointed over finding nothing to desecrate, but, it would be a great movie set for science fiction … uninterrupted filming and poster stills from a graveyard.​
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Paris

Good Shepherd Sunday
Misericórdia Dómini The Mercy of the Lord
(Latin 
Bonus Pastor, 
French Le bon pasteur)

First video
garbage language
study time 45 minutes (to no avail)

Second video
I read English/Latin and understand the MOST PASSIONATE sermon.
study time 0 minutes


A bishop's crozier is a shepherd's crook by which he keeps his flock in line, no matter how dumb or disobedient they are. They know him by his call, and any shepherd will tell you so.​
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Cantate Domino

5/2/2025

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Spain
Sebastián de Vivanco (Ávila, 1551 - Salamanca, 1622)
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Sing to the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvelous things. Be joyful in God all lands, sing and exult and give praise. Sing to the Lord with the harp and in psalms. With trumpets and horns rejoice before the Lord the King. Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof, all the world and they that dwell therein.
Picture
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salamanca_in_Spain.svg
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Saint-Saëns animals

4/28/2025

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France & Algeria
French composer, pianist, organist
b. Paris October 9, 1835; d. Algiers, Algeria, December 16, 1921
Carnival of the Animals: intro; lions; hens and cocks; wild jackass; turtles; elephants; the kangaroo; the aquarium; mules; the cuckoo in the woods; birds; pianists; fossils; the swan; grand finale; and French military march! Listen to poetry, correct accents, music, and humor.
https://www.sing-prayer.org/carnival-of-the-animals​
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I've so many sources without which I could not do what I do.
This one is from Bill, St. Stephen Sacramento parishioner.
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the pope is dead

4/22/2025

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France
​On this day after he died, none of the commentators will say, but many people are saying to each other, "Good riddance to the pope." Without being vulgar in a public place, try to make your mouth match your thoughts, or be a whited sepulcher.

Most Christian Majesty
Roi Très-chrétien
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Justus_van_Egmont_-_King_Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg

Title: King Louis XIV (1638-1715) of France
Artist: Justus van Egmont
Date: c 1651 - c 1654
Genre: portrait
Medium: oil on canvas 
Dimensions: height 54.1 in; width 41.3 in 
Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum   
Accession number: GG_3208 (Kunsthistorisches Museum) 
Source/Photographer: same


Louis XIV became King of France at the age of four. He inherited the throne from his father, King Louis XIII, who died suddenly in 1643. Because Louis XIV was too young to rule, his mother, Anne of Austria, and his chief advisor, Cardinal Mazarin, served as regents.

My writing student's middle name is King Louis.
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When I use other people's music, it might be for educational purposes or for purposes other than what the creator intended. They might or might not endorse endorse what I say. However, they benefit by my promoting their music, and in this case I provided the painting copyright.


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Psalmus Primus

4/22/2025

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France
Debussy liked the music of Orlando di Lasso (See Vaganova 2025.)
Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me
Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger.
2 O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath  [Psalms 6:2]
Anyone who suffers a false accusation is Christ. If you have so suffered, send me an email, and I will talk with you about accusations confidentially, no names. Christ allows it to happen to make us more like Him. Be grateful. Devil & Tom Walker
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Vaganova 2025

4/22/2025

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Russia
exam date 4/9/2025

comprehensive ballet school academics w/ career training
for boys and girls, ages 10-18
St. Petersburg
founded 1738
At 45 minutes, the girls are perspiring as they are being scouted, dancing to Debussy's "Clair de Lune" … perfectly. Stay for the last few minutes because then they do the hard stuff.

France
Achille-Claude Debussy 1862-1918
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He was much more impressed by the music of the 16th-century composers Palestrina and Lassus, which he heard at Santa Maria dell'Anima: ‘The only church music I will accept’.

He was often depressed and unable to compose, but he was inspired by Franz Liszt, who visited Debussy's piano students and played for them.

In June 1885, Debussy wrote of his desire to follow his own way, saying, ‘I am sure the Institute would not approve, for, naturally it regards the path which it ordains as the only right one. But there is no help for it! I am too enamoured of my freedom, too fond of my own ideas!’
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Wikipedia

Comment: I cannot give glory to God for my own work if I am not enamored with it first.


He rejected the idea that he was an impressionist composer.
Picture
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Impression-soleil-levant.jpg
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Monet's Impression, soleil levant (1872), from which "Impressionism" takes its name
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Easter 2025

4/20/2025

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​Athanasian Creed

The creed comes right after The Preface and before The Sanctus, pp 773-774 of the Father Lasance Edition, 1962 Missal, Nihil Obstat 1937, Imprimatur 1945.

The creed was deleted by fiat in 1969 and thus, is, joylessly absent from the Novus Ordo Mass.


Latin, Father of All Romance Languages and English
Some will say that Latin is not an essential part of the Mass or anything else, such as writing. However, Latin has given me a better understanding of the language I speak and write every day, and my grasp of English is a critical part of the thousands of hours expended developing this website.

Moreover, an understanding of Latin will assist a concentration in English and reading fine literature, as found in my Reading List. Prior to the middle of the last century, all or most American and British students were reading Latin, and, it puts one closer in time to Christ. ​He spoke it, and what about Peter and Paul?

Catholic homeschoolers are.

​There is no manipulating a static language.

Manipulating English is constant. First it was LGB, then it was LBGT, then it mutated again into LGBTQ, and at its longest it was LGBTQIAPPK. Now, it's something like LGBTQ2S
​
​Watch 
LGBTQ+++ threatens.
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Super flumina

4/20/2025

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Super flumina Babylonis
1 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion: 
2 On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments. 
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lyricist/translator: Clément Marot 1496-1544
composer: François Giroust
 1737-1799
artist:
Pierre-Antoine Demachy 1723-1807
French Revolution:
1789-1799
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Яблочко Yablochko

4/18/2025

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Igor Moiseyev Ballet

​Americans are infernally stupid about ballet and sadly infected by Puritanism, present tense, or its opposite, decadence, present tense, which makes them impervious to art, culture, and music.

Our Catholic tradition is overflowing with the last three, but even many of our brothers are stung by Puritanism, so stifled that they cannot read classical literature, and so fearful of God and Rome that they cannot diverge from the line or think for themselves.

If you realize that person might be you, listen and be shocked
Revelation


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