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I do not want to sound mean but perhaps the name "Faggot" is one of the cause of alienation.
by afsina 11y ago
I do not want to sound mean but perhaps the name "Faggot" is one of the cause of alienation.
- kzhahou 11y agoWhere did you see that?
- mattlutze 11y agoHe's misspelled the word, but Germanic and Slavic languages use forms of Italian's "fagotto" for bassoon. Coming from the US, I'll admit I had a double-take the first time I saw a bassoon advertised in a music shop window in Germany, before I figured out what they were actually selling.
- kissickas 11y agoMy old score of the Rite of Spring had "fag." written on every line and I'm pretty sure it was an English-branded version on the cover. I could see kids being worried about getting made fun of for that. If anyone wants to hear the diverse sound of the bassoon, the very first notes of the Rite of Spring are the way to go in my opinion. The story goes that musicians were shocked by the line Stravinsky wrote, saying it sounded like it was meant to be played on a saxaphone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4am3YRpfiHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4am3YRpfiHs
- mattlutze 11y agoFor what it's worth, they probably translated the cover and left the score in whatever language it had been previously published in.
- mattlutze 11y agoI also really liked this recording of Gustavo Nunez's bassoon solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfg9IIXhcPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfg9IIXhcPk It's an interesting contrast in how open / mellow he can keep his vowels, and the variety in sound profiles various bassoons themselves have.
- mattlutze 11y agoIt comes from the Italian "fagotto," and those languages that use the Italian form (instead of the French/English "basson/bassoon") have a different word for the pejorative you're inferring. Also, it'll be spelled with one "g", not two. If you say "Ich hasse das Fagott" to a German they'll know you're opining on woodwinds and not confused whether you're insulting a homosexual.