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If you want something interesting, listen to Ahbez sing "Nature Boy" and then listen to Cole sing it. Since Ahbez sings a cappella, he sings "untempered" notes

by bsder 2y ago

If you want something interesting, listen to Ahbez sing "Nature Boy" and then listen to Cole sing it. Since Ahbez sings a cappella, he sings "untempered" notes in the correct key while Cole is singing "tempered" ones to match the piano accompaniment--and it changes the feel of the song.

labster 2y ago
I have no idea why people are downvoting you. Are they assuming “untempered” is an insult (it’s not, it’s called just intonation), or is the parent post wrong?
- bsder 2y ago
  Don't worry about up/down votes. I've had very strange things with a large number of downvotes on a comment and then a very large number of upvotes one or two layers downthread. Presumably there are some bots/brigades that are trying to create a "good history" to try and pretend they are "organic". The bots/brigades don't care about anything more than the first layer.
  - mlvljr 2y ago
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oidar 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339UrDjHDio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339UrDjHDio
- msephton 2y ago
  Interesting, this video mentions a Yiddish song "Shvayg, mayn harts" ("Hush, my heart") that it seems to have been inspired by. And on a video of that song https://youtu.be/uT7GcjBnWaw https://youtu.be/uT7GcjBnWaw is this info > ("Shvayg mayn harts") was in the 1935 Yiddish theater show Papirosn. Years later eden ahbez paid Yablokoff $25,000 out of court to settle a plagiarism complaint. Listen to the chorus and see if you think it was stolen. Some say they were both stolen from Antonin Dvorak’s 1887 “Piano Quintet No. 2” - which may have been stolen from Czechoslovakian folk music. Here's a Dvorak comparison https://m.facebook.com/MastersonHomeConcerts/videos/dumka-and-nature-boy/463696484849508/ https://m.facebook.com/MastersonHomeConcerts/videos/dumka-an... Also noteworthy is the fact that eden ahbez preferred to spell his name as all lowercase. All of this and more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Boy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Boy including the original poster of this HN item.
pier25 2y ago
Are you sure he's singing untempered? Sounds more like vernacular singing without precise tuning.

by bsder 2y ago

labster 2y ago

I have no idea why people are downvoting you. Are they assuming “untempered” is an insult (it’s not, it’s called just intonation), or is the parent post wrong?

bsder 2y ago
Don't worry about up/down votes. I've had very strange things with a large number of downvotes on a comment and then a very large number of upvotes one or two layers downthread. Presumably there are some bots/brigades that are trying to create a "good history" to try and pretend they are "organic". The bots/brigades don't care about anything more than the first layer.
- mlvljr 2y ago
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oidar 2y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339UrDjHDio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339UrDjHDio

msephton 2y ago
Interesting, this video mentions a Yiddish song "Shvayg, mayn harts" ("Hush, my heart") that it seems to have been inspired by. And on a video of that song https://youtu.be/uT7GcjBnWaw https://youtu.be/uT7GcjBnWaw is this info > ("Shvayg mayn harts") was in the 1935 Yiddish theater show Papirosn. Years later eden ahbez paid Yablokoff $25,000 out of court to settle a plagiarism complaint. Listen to the chorus and see if you think it was stolen. Some say they were both stolen from Antonin Dvorak’s 1887 “Piano Quintet No. 2” - which may have been stolen from Czechoslovakian folk music. Here's a Dvorak comparison https://m.facebook.com/MastersonHomeConcerts/videos/dumka-and-nature-boy/463696484849508/ https://m.facebook.com/MastersonHomeConcerts/videos/dumka-an... Also noteworthy is the fact that eden ahbez preferred to spell his name as all lowercase. All of this and more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Boy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Boy including the original poster of this HN item.

pier25 2y ago

Are you sure he's singing untempered? Sounds more like vernacular singing without precise tuning.