Tropical Downpour Uke-Song: "ALAJUELA CHORUS"

PARODY LYRICS 

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: The Hallelujah Chorus from "Messiah", composed by George Frideric Handel, with scriptural text by Charles Jennens. The oratorio was first performed as a benefit concert in Dublin in 1742. Under the more cautious title "New Sacred Oratorio" it was performed in London a year later, but with only marginal critical acceptance. Its revival at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1749 under its now-familiar title initiated its iconic role as an inspiring religious work. You can listen to the Royal Choral Society perform the chorus at Albert Hall, a yearly treat, HERE.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2017.

INFO-LINKS: This site shows the monthly rainfall pattern in Alajuela, and in other locales in Costa Rica.

 Costa Rica is a fascinating place to visit due to its variety of microclimates and preserved natural environments.

EXPLANATION: For most tourists visiting Costa Rica, the airport of entry is located at Alajuela, a town in the central valley near the capital San José. Some tourists will use the second international airport at Liberia in the drier northwest corner of the country. Alajuela is also the name of the surrounding province which stretches through the central part of the country, north to the Nicaraguan border. 
The name "Alajuela" epitomizes the wonderful musical quality of the Spanish and aboriginal place-names in this great tourist destination.

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

 (Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)

ORIGINAL COMPOSITION'S LYRICS

Uke-Song: "A LESSON about REDUPLICATIONS"

SONG with UKULELE CHORDS

...

... in a fallout shelter?

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. Originally a poem, the construct developed into a song, and is now the sixth of nine in the series on Word-Pairs. You can find the links to the previous songs at the bottom of the post.

 To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.

WORDPLAY LINK: For further discussion of reduplications on our sister blogsite "EDIFYING NONSENSE", click HERE. 

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT:
(Click on any chord-chart slide to move to 'song-presentation mode'; then navigate through thumbnails at bottom of page.)

Be sure to continue with  Alliterative Binomials part #2.

ORIGINAL SONG-LYRICS
Click on any chord chart to enlarge and enter thumbnail mode (the slides for both the parody and the original versions can then be enlarged and viewed in any order). 

The remaining 6 slides in Lehrer's original song, "The Elements" can be viewed as a supplement to our parody-song-blogpost "No Elements". Click HERE to proceed.

You crave more patter-songs in the style of Tom Lehrer???
T.L. inspired a whole platterful of songs related to our interest in (i) grammatically paired words, including binomials and reduplications, and (ii) Latin loanwords. And, you should have your foot in the door, having mastered the complexities of singing and playing our above offering "Alliterative Binomials".  So, enjoy singing and playing these as well !!!     
1a. "Alliterative Binomials, part#1"

1b. "Alliterative Binomials, part#2"

2a. "Rhyming Binomials, part#1"

2b. "Rhyming Binomials, part#2"

(3.  "A Lesson about Reduplications", not a patter-song)

4a. "Reduplications, part#1"

4b. "Reduplications, part#2",

5.  "No Elements", 3rd declension Latin nouns

6.  "The Uniqueness of Nuclear", Latin adjectival listing

of the original songs in our parody suite about word-pairs
7/9 pay tribute to the work of Tom Lehrer

WHAT NOW?

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Choice #2: To find another song-parody, use the listings on the web-version by reverse date in the clickable 'Blog-Archive' at the top of the right-hand column.

Choice #3: To return to our broad-spectrum blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE.

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If you aren't on the 'web-version', you can get there by clicking that choice ('view web-version') at the very bottom of this blog-page!

Limerick-Uke-Saga: "The ATHENS ACROPOLIS", a song for hellenophiles

 

UKE-SONG, derived from lyrics of a multi-verse limerick

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: This poetic piece, with 3 stanzas and 15 lines, can be sung to "The Limerick Song", as per YouTube HERE.

ORIGINAL POETRY LYRICS:  Original verses were composed by registered pseudonym Giorgio Coniglio, following a trip to Greece in November 2017. After undergoing their rigorous collaborative editing process, the work has been published as a "brief saga", a poetic entity of three or more stanzas, on the poetry website OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form); they have then been displayed as poetry lyrics on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Click HERE to review Giorgio's blogged poem.

SETTING WORDS TO MUSIC: Readers might be interested to know that of more than 1000 short poems that we have published, only 50 or so would qualify as "brief sagas", based on lenghand format. Although almost any limerick verse (e.g. the "Nantucket limericks") can be set to music, we were particularly interested in exploring this reformatting for these multiverse poems that warrant the time to pick up your ukulele.

The tunes we have exploited in this effort include, not surprisingly "The Limerick Song". On certain occasions we have also used "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?", "The Anniversary Song", "Summertime", "Santa Lucia" and Shania Twain's "Up" (minor modifications to scansion are required for some of these). 

SONG-LINKS: If interested, you could check out all of Giorgio's song-posts dealing with travels in Greece, most of which involve the conversion of limerick-based poems to singable format. These include "Aegean Cat", "Cyclades Islands", "Dodecanese Islands", and "Singable Limericks: Using Greek Words". (There are also many shorter illustrated verses, remaining under the poetry rubric, that can be found on "Daily Edifying Nonsense", although these, too, are singable). 

Authors' Note: 

* properly, the Panathenaic Way.

The worst blow to the monument was in 1687 when Venetians attacked the Turkish-held site, and gunpowder stores caused an explosion that damaged all the buildings. The greatest part of the existing frieze marbles from the Parthenon, taken by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century, are currently found in the British museum. The Beulé Gate near the Propylaia at the entrance was discovered by a French archeologist in 1852.

Other verses discussing our appreciation of Greece and things Greek can be found on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE.

WHAT NOW?

Choice #1: To leave a comment, click on the comment-'widget' at the bottom of this page (or, if that fails, find an alternate e-mail on "pages").

Choice #2: To find another song-parody, use the listings on the web-version by reverse date in the clickable 'Blog-Archive' at the top of the right-hand column.

Choice #3: To return to our broad-spectrum blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE.

Choice #4 (optional): If you found this stuff to be compellingly entertaining or educational, send a cheque/check. 

If you aren't on the 'web-version', you can get there by clicking that choice ('view web-version') at the very bottom of this blog-page!