"She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat." Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777)
Matherton-tempo-maps 2018
Joe Cocker’s version of a song you are so beautiful it’s one of the most beautiful songs of the 20th century.
The diagram pictured here of the measurements that I took of the frequencies of exactly how fast the song is in all places in the continuous measurement.
Anticipation was written by Carly Simon for Cat Stevens before her first date with him.
Anticipation was written by Carly Simon for Cat Stevens before her first date with him.
The speed of the song is recorded live.
median expected speed99.5 beats per minute
median expected beat=603 milliseconds
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Ita me habere potui Downeaster “Alexa”
Et quo ad Oceanum est abyssi
Sunt gigantum reputata est et in canyons
Et optimus imperator non laberetur in somnum
EGO got laoreet reddere atque necessarium filios et vestimenta sua
Scio enim de illic ‘pisces: sed ubi? Dominus solus novit,
Dicunt isti quod aquae non sunt, esse solebat,
Sed surrexit populi mei super terram quis numerare
Billy Joel was born and raised on Long Island, New York, United States.
As one who exudes empathy in his songs, in DOWNEASTER ALEXA he sings about the once reliable lifestyle of the hardworking fisherman who cannot fish as they once did because of pollution and overfishing in the “overkill”.
The lyrics, legally for hobby and personal use in latin –
Bene ego sum, et in Downeaster “Alexa”
Et Ego in illo uagari Clausus Island Novum
Scilicet ego et charted ad vineam pullum
At ego hac nocte Nantucket vinctum
Non tulit retro pellentesque ex hesterno die in Montauk
Hac mane a bell reliquit in Gardiners Bay
Ut omnis hie locus est vendere Ego quoque mea
Superbus est discedere, et digitos meos ad os operatur
Ita me habere potui Downeaster “Alexa”
Et quo ad Oceanum est abyssi
Sunt gigantum reputata est et in canyons
Et optimus imperator non laberetur in somnum
EGO got laoreet reddere atque necessarium filios et vestimenta sua
Scio enim de illic ‘pisces: sed ubi? Dominus solus novit,
Dicunt isti quod aquae non sunt, esse solebat,
Sed surrexit populi mei super terram quis numerare
Ergo si vidisti me Downeaster “Alexa”
Et si vos opus cum virga, et turbabuntur
Dic mihi uxor mea certare sumperiphorais ad Atlantis,
Et etiam Ego got manus super rotam
Yay, O
Yay, O
Yay, O
Yay-o-Yay
Nunc mea eiciam Downeaster “Alexa”
Quotannis ferme plus fluctibus
Cum autem ad me non possum vendere non stripers
Hie et illic ‘nulla fortuna in swordfishing
Pater esset in conspectu meo: sicut et ego bayman
Non potes facere vivos sicut iam bayman
Non est multum in posterum, qui operatur in mare
Nulla relicta insula non me tamen insulanorum
spiron/matherton
November 30, 2016
Matherton will not reveal her favorite team. Her father, like mine, is a Giants fan, that tough enough.
My wife is a Philadelphia eagles fan of all her life.
I am a lowly N.Y. Jets fan of my life.
Hence the song ringing in the house – for my attitude, not hers!
Matherton will not reveal her favorite team. Her father, like mine, is a Giants fan, that tough enough.
spiron + matherton
November 26, 2017
The scene was filmed on the the California beaches, somewhere between Catalina and Venice Beach. As you can tell I’m from the East Coast!
This is a tempo chart I made inspired by a scene from the Bold and The Beautiful that featured Susan Flannery as Stephanie Douglas Forrester ushering with utter gentlest her other, played by Betty White. The scene was filmed on the the California beaches, somewhere between Catalina and Venice Beach. As you can tell I’m from the East Coast!
matherton + spiron
november 26, 2017
In the 1970s, Odoea Coates sang to Paul Anna that she wanted to have his baby because she “was a woman in love.”
In the 1970s, Odoea Coates sang to Paul Anna that she wanted to have his baby because she “was a woman in love.”
PAUL: “What A lovely way of showing how much you love me.”
Paul digs deeper, “Didn’t have to keep it – wouldn’t put you through it! You could have swept it from your life but you wouldn’t do it. No – you wouldn’t do it! [have an abortion].”
So in some ways the 1970s were a more liberal than the 2010s.
spiron/matherton
november 24, 2017
It was the first song I heard when I arrived at my college in 1981, and indeed, leaving my little town of Harrington Park behind I felt I had made a mistake, I always loved the part of the song where Squeeze’s lead singer sings what I wanted in November 1981 when he sings the classic, “I said to my reflection, ‘let’s get out of this place!’.
“Tempted” plays at a speed where one usually finds songs filled with enthusiasm.
It was the first song I heard when I arrived at my college in 1981, and indeed, leaving my little town of Harrington Park behind I felt I had made a mistake, I always loved the part of the song where Squeeze’s lead singer sings what I wanted in November 1981 when he sings the classic, “I said to my reflection, ‘let’s get out of this place!’.
The song Tempted by Squeeze was measured by J Matherton and me and the diagram of its speed is shown below
Spiron/J Matherton
11/20/2017
median speed 
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