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@villon Nice!

@elCelio haha, yes, when continents shiver.

As so often, Tom Gauld says it pithier.

Transience

I love the transience of things. Sic transit gloria mundi and all that. Knowing that the flowers in the vase on my table will not last increases my appreciation of them. Knowing that the petty vexation of my morning will not last reduces my annoyance at it.

Everything comes to an end eventually. If we zoom out far enough, anything can appear transient: to a boulder, the life of an oak is transient. Transience sees the difference in timescale between the viewer and the viewed.

I guess the point of ‘sic transit gloria mundi’ is to suggest we raise our eyes from the mundane occasionally, and take a long view of things: if our daily lives vex us, it reminds us they will soon be in the past; if they are occasionally filled with beauty, the evanescence heightens our love of it.

#SomewhatRandomMusings

I could use with some help deciphering a handwritten note on some music I have been transcribing.

This is from a 1642 publication in German, containing music by an obscure composer called Johann Vierdanck.

The annotation comes at the bottom of the first page of a piece in three sections, and it appears in the two voice parts only: it’s not in the accompanying (basso continuo) part.

It presumably is an instruction of some kind, needed for the singers (only). None of the other pieces in the volume have anything like this.

Screen captures of the two. I believe they are the same text, but maybe not.

Any ideas? I’ve got as far as ‘NB’. And maybe there’s a numeral 3 towards the end.

#Transcription #BaroqueMusic #MusicHistory