PolyglotDome: Music from Everywhere

[Olli]

Amsterdam
and

 

[Kirin]

Typically What Child Is This actually changes some of the major/minor notes from Greensleeves, so I think despite being *nearly* the same tune it's actually not in the same Dorian mode. As for modes in general, briefly, it's just a set scale with particular accidentals the same way the minor key is a variation on the major one. Dorian has a minor third but a major sixth, I think.

Also, Fictional Hell, but that doesn't matter because...

 

[Torzelbaum]

Typically What Child Is This actually changes some of the major/minor notes from Greensleeves, so I think despite being *nearly* the same tune it's actually not in the same Dorian mode. As for modes in general, briefly, it's just a set scale with particular accidentals the same way the minor key is a variation on the major one. Dorian has a minor third but a major sixth, I think.

So is this how people feel when I try to explain a complicated computer thing to them?

 

[Kirin]

...because Numa Numa and Amsterdam won handily.


Meanwhile for the first Wednesday match, @Johnny Unusual sings yljah, Qey 'oH with The Creepy Bard in Early Klingon (thanks for making me do that research), while I sing Brizgalna Brizga with AtomiK HarmoniK in Slovenian.

SUV / PROTI

And also @Purple wonders what Du Hast with Rammstein in German, and @pudik stays up all Din Raat with LIFAFA in Hindi

GEGEN / बनाम

 

[Kirin]

So is this how people feel when I try to explain a complicated computer thing to them?

Probably, yes.

 

[Falselogic]

AtomiK Hast

 

[lincolnic]

I have significant hearing loss in one ear which I think affects my ability to pick up on these differences but I really like learning the correct lingo, thanks!

As for modes in general, briefly, it's just a set scale with particular accidentals the same way the minor key is a variation on the major one. Dorian has a minor third but a major sixth, I think.

Kirin has it right. The easiest way to think of a mode is as a scale starting on a different note than it usually would. So a regular C major scale - C D E F G A B - is also known as the ionian mode. But if you use that same scale (no sharps, no flats) and start on D instead, you get D dorian: D E F G A B C. The D minor scale would normally have a Bb instead of B natural, but the raised 6th degree (i.e. B natural here) is what makes it dorian instead.

But most importantly for this thread,

AtomiK Hast

 

[Exposition Owl]

yljah Din Raat
Also, even though I ended up voting another way, I can’t resist posting this:

Spoiler: to avoid confusion

 

[Issun]

yljah Din Raat

 

[Purple]

Du hast no honor.

 

[Kirin]

Din Raat Brizga

 

[pudik]

Brizgalna Brizga
Din Raat

 

[Paul le Fou]

Brizgalna Brizga. I'm of 1/4 Slovenian descent and grew up listening to Polka, so I have no choice but to vote for a Slovenian pop song with an accordion in it.

Spoiler: re: my second vote

 

[Violentvixen]

So is this how people feel when I try to explain a complicated science thing to them?

Good to learn but yes, nuts.

That first matchup is bonkers but I think I'll go with Brizgalna Brizga as I recognize a lot of the words since the crossover with the Czech language is pretty significant. Clearly a lot of sex/dick/hose jokes going on in that one, wish I knew the language well enough to pick up on the puns.

For the second one, Rammstein was a huge part of grad school so I like Du Hast quite a lot.

Spoiler: re: my second vote

OMG NO why did you do this

Also, even though I ended up voting another way, I can’t resist posting this:

Spoiler: to avoid confusion

Lol

 

[Kirin]

That funky Slovenian Brizga moves on and Du Hast barely squeaks out a win.


Today @Falselogic gets his Bamboléo on with the Gypsy Kings in Spanish, but @Lumber Baron eschews grammar and meaning with Untitled (Vaka) from Sigur Ros in Vonlenska (aka Hopelandic, a non-language inviented by the band without conceptual content).

FRENTE CONTRA / Á MÓTI

And @WildcatJF dances a Disco Serenata with LOLAA also in Spanish, while @lincolnic asks HAEC QVOQVE EST RES with John Linnell in Latin

FRENTA A / CONTRA

 

[WildcatJF]

Untitled Serenata

 

[Olli]

Bambo Serenata

 

[lincolnic]

Untitled
HAEC QVOQVE EST RES

The title of my pick doesn't actually appear in the song, but it translates to "This is Also the Case". Like many people, John Linnell had a project early in the pandemic to keep himself occupied. Unlike many people (I'm guessing), his project was to learn Latin. It didn't go quite the way he planned, but he was able to put together a four-song EP:

I can hear some of you screaming, “why songs in Latin?” and I admit I’m scrambling for a cogent explanation. There isn’t one. All I can tell you is that I’m deeply jealous of people who are fluent in a second language and can apply that skill to their creative work in a way that doesn’t seem like cultural appropriation of the most offensive and embarrassing kind. I’m trying to stay in my lane so I don’t cause traffic accidents on the multicultural highway. In spite of this I perked up when I discovered the very short, easy Latin course being offered on the Duolingo website. After completing the course, I figured I could write a few songs in my newly adopted language. I was soon disabused of this notion. I can barely string two words together in Latin, and to borrow from Mark Twain, I would rather decline two drinks than one Latin noun.

Luckily my colleague and childhood friend Schoolmaster Smith came to my rescue, having spent his entire adult life studying and teaching Latin. He generously translated my English lyrics and instructed me on pronunciation. All credit for any success in this project is due to him and any mistakes and failures are entirely mine.

The English translation is part of the video above, but here's both languages just in case. (Fun fact: I listened to this song for like a year and a half before looking at the English lyrics.)

Spoiler: Latin

Nunquam domum relinquō
Est nimium periculī

Quod forās
Hominēs sunt
Eōs vidēre possum

Et miror
Sī mē vīdeant

Et miror
Sī mirentur
Sī eōs vidēre possim

Et mirantur
Sī mirar
Sī mē vidēre possint

Nēmō mē visitat
Nōn est tūtus hīc
Quod in domō meā
Est egō
Sciunt mē intrā hunc esse

Et cogitant cōgitāta dē mē
Et sciunt mē agnoscere

Hanc rēm esse et sciō
Eōs cognoscere
Hanc esse quoque rem

Et sciunt
Mē agnoscere

Hanc esse quoque rem
Hanc esse quoque rem

Et sciō
Eōs cognoscere

Hanc esse quoque rem
Hanc esse quoque rem et
Hanc esse quoque rem

Spoiler: English translation

I never leave home
It's too dangerous

Because outside
There are people
I can see them

And I wonder
If they see me

And I wonder
If they wonder
If I can see them

And they wonder
If I wonder
If they can see me

Nobody visits me
It isn't safe here
Because in my house
There is me
They know I'm in here

And they're thinking thoughts about me
And they know that I'm aware

That this is the case
And I know that they're aware
That this is also the case

And they know
That I'm aware

That this is also the case
That this is also the case

And I know
That they're aware

That this is also the case
That this is also the case and
That this is also the case

 

[Exposition Owl]

Thanks for the background, linc!

Two strong matchups this round, but I’m going with

VAKA QUOQUE EST RES

 

[Falselogic]

Bambo Serenata

 

[Kirin]

HAEC QVOQVE EST BAMBOLEO

 

[Issun]

Disco Vaka

 

[Purple]

Even just one Possible Giant showing up here is a pleasant surprise, but I'm a sucker for bubblegum pop and songs are genuine international hits for a reason so I'm voting double-Spanish.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

Both matches are all killer no filler but...

Bamboléo Est Res

 

[Violentvixen]

Untitled and HAEC QVOQVE EST RES

 

[Kirin]

Dang, folks, we have a FOUR WAY TIE for Thursdays matches so if anyone didn't vote yet and wants to tip Bambo VS Vaka or Serenata VS Quoque, toss me more votes.


And we're at the final matches of Round one! @Issun builds civilizations with Baba Yetu from Christopher Tin feat Soweto Gospel Choir in Swahili, while @Aurelia crosses 泥河 with the Omnipotent Youth Society in Mandarin Chinese

DHIDI / 相对

And finally, @Violentvixen leaves us with Aganjú from Bebel Gilberto in Portuguese, while @Olli sends us off with a Striptease-tanssija with Kaseva in Finnish.

CONTRA / VASTAAN

Got a busy weekend so I think we'll just plan to start Round 2 on Monday. Feel free to get tie-breaker votes in over the weekend as well.

 

[Exposition Owl]

The Kaseva video is listed as unavailable for me, @Kirin.

 

[Kirin]

Let’s try that last one again

 

[Exposition Owl]

Thanks, that works! I appreciate your hunting down these links for us, Kirin.

Baba Aganjú

 

[Falselogic]

Baba Aganjú