Monday, April 17, 2006

from a motel 6

she's listening to schubert on the tv. sonata in 'd', she tells me.

how do you know that, i ask?

because it tells you on the screen.

what's your favourite tv radio station?

channel 476. it's the nature station. it's just the sound of thunderstorms and birds and wind and things.

the sound of things. i like it.

now i'm listening to a partitas. i don't even know what that is.

how do you spell it?

partitas.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

1) An instrumental piece composed of a series of variations, as a suite.
2) One of the variations contained in such a piece.

Anonymous said...

j.s bach notably extended the partitas from its originally connotation of a single insturmental piece of music to also mean collections of pieces, ie: suites.

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