Motor Bus for clarinet and guitar inspired by the poem by A D Godley by David Warin Solomons B-Flat Clarinet - Digital Sheet Music
By David Warin SolomonsInstrumental arrangement of my song based on this humorous macaronic poem by A D Godley, in which he pokes gentle fun at people striving to learn the declension of nouns in Latin (or maybe it is meant as a learning aid...).The piece was written in a whole tone scale to emphasise the machine quality of the motor bus itself and the machine like quality of chanting Latin declensions.The reference to the Corn and High relates to the main thoroughfares of Oxford Centre, which used to be chock-a-block with traffic.What is it that roareth thus?Can it be a Motor Bus?Yes, the smell and hideous humIndicat Motorem Bum... [indicates a motor bus]Implet in the Corn and High [In the Cornmarket and the High Street]Terror me Motoris Bi [Fear of the motor bus fills me]Bo motori clamitabo [I shall call out to the motor bus]Ne motore caedar a bo... [Lest I be killed by the motor bus]Dative be or Ablativeso thou only let us liveWhither shall thy victims flee?Spare us, spare us Motor Be....Thus I sang and still anighCame in hordes Motores BiEt complebat omne forum [And the whole market place was filledCopia Motorum Borum! [With a host of motor buses]How shall wretches live like usCincti Bis Motoribus [Surrounded by by motor buses]Domine defende nos [Lord defend us]contra hos motores bos! [From these motor buses]
Details
Summary
- Instrument:
- B-Flat Clarinet Classical Guitar
- Genres:
- 20th Century Comedy Contemporary
- Composers:
- David Warin Solomons
- Publishers:
- David Warin Solomons
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Artist:
- David Warin Solomons
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 8
Detailed Description
SKU: A0.1561898
Composed by David Warin Solomons. This edition: pdf, streaming. 20th Century, Comedy, Contemporary. 8 pages. David Warin Solomons #1133968. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1561898).Instrumental arrangement of my song based on this humorous macaronic poem by A D Godley, in which he pokes gentle fun at people striving to learn the declension of nouns in Latin (or maybe it is meant as a learning aid...).
The piece was written in a whole tone scale to emphasise the machine quality of the motor bus itself and the machine like quality of chanting Latin declensions.
The reference to the Corn and High relates to the main thoroughfares of Oxford Centre, which used to be chock-a-block with traffic.
What is it that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum... [indicates a motor bus]
Implet in the Corn and High [In the Cornmarket and the High Street]
Terror me Motoris Bi [Fear of the motor bus fills me]
Bo motori clamitabo [I shall call out to the motor bus]
Ne motore caedar a bo... [Lest I be killed by the motor bus]
Dative be or Ablative
so thou only let us live
Whither shall thy victims flee?
Spare us, spare us Motor Be....
Thus I sang and still anigh
Came in hordes Motores Bi
Et complebat omne forum [And the whole market place was filled
Copia Motorum Borum! [With a host of motor buses]
How shall wretches live like us
Cincti Bis Motoribus [Surrounded by by motor buses]
Domine defende nos [Lord defend us]
contra hos motores bos! [From these motor buses].
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