Barrel organ – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder – Page 6

Tweets for October 2016

Did the house that Jack built come from Spain?

Or, How to cook the old lady who swallowed a fly without stooping to cannibalism. Cumulative songs (and monstrous nested stuffing recipes) in Quixote and Estebanillo González, with the grossest video you’ll see today.

Cruikshank, The progress of passion (1792).

Irregular rhythmic irregularity in southern German music

How to write pastiche inconsistent non-isochronous subdivision for mechanical organ. With metrical analysis of the notes inégales in a bit of the Furtwängler recording of Mozart’s Gran Partita.

The Moravian Mathias Zdarsky demonstrating his new skiing technique (c. 1905), with unknown metrical consequences.

Tweets for September 2016

Gorging Jack and Little Billee

The case for the defence.

Wallace Beery as Barnacle Bill the sailor.

Will Kemp Morris-danced from London to Norwich

But unfortunately he probably won’t figure in the results of the Singing Organ-Grinder’s historical explorations into English popular song.

Will Kemp underway from London to Norwich in 1600, with Thomas Slye on pipe and tabor, but without an organ grinder, because the technology wasn't there.

London’s River Lea and Waltham Forest in Drayton’s 1622 Poly-Olbion

Now you see ’em, now you don’t.

Olympic Park with the River Lea in 2012, before the Singing Organ-Grinder arrived.

Tweets for August 2016

Selling well off the top of the street organ in London

Clarence Day’s This Simian World.

Tweets for July 2016