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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: cats&music
- Message-ID: <BxvJw6.Hu3@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:09:40 GMT
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- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie
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- > One of our cats will respond to the sounds of a recorder (end-blown flute)
- > -- but especially when you make wierd sounds that kind of slide between
- > two notes with a jump between. Lots of "purt, purt", purring, rubbing,
- > sitting in your lap, etc.
-
- [ I started this thread by describing how my cat Muriel freaks at the sound
- of a clarinet, however well played in whatever kind of music. ]
-
- I've now found a kind of music Muriel *is* fascinated by. I don't often
- listen to the Radio Scotland bagpipe programme (full of preposterously
- pompous military types huffing and puffing reminiscences about when they
- were in Aden with Pipe-Major MacThingummy of the 43rd Rockall Highlanders)
- but tuned in to hear someone playing one of the most famous of all
- pibrochs, the "Lament for the Children". A pibroch is the main "classical"
- form of pipe music: a solo piper plays a simple slow tune and then repeats
- it over and over with nothing much happening except that the ornamentation
- gets more and more elaborate. Muriel sat bolt upright with her eyes nearly
- falling out of her head at every flurry of grace notes. While it might be
- romantic to think she was perceiving the emotional qualities of one of the
- finest pieces of music in the piping repertoire, I suspect that the
- gracenote patterns sounded to her like a nest of small, defenceless and
- *edible* birds...
-
- (Yesterday I posted a long diary of my summer holiday to rec.travel and
- soc.culture.turkish; there are cat anecdotes from Croatia and Turkey in
- it, though not enough to merit crossposting it here).
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