Tuesday, August 1, 2023

melismatic \mi-liz-MA-tik\, adjective:

• Characterized by the singing of several notes to one syllable of text, for emotional impact, as in blues and other musical styles.

Melismatic finds its source in the Greek melisma, "music."

 

Bag Texting

• When you try not to be rude texting while you are out with friends so you hide it by texting with the phone still in your bag. This is an attempt to trick people that you are with into not thinking you are rude when in fact it is so obvious when you are standing there with your bag open and your whole hand is in the bag, holding your phone, texting.

"Hey! what are you looking for in your bag, Jenn?"

"Oh nothing, I'm just bag texting".

History

• Slavery Abolition Act 1833: abolished slavery in Britain and Ireland
• WWI: erupted as Germany declared war on Russia (1914)
• Fulbright: scholarship program was signed into US law (1946)
• MTV: cable music station was launched with, aptly, The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1981)

Birthdays

• Francis Scott Key 1779
• Herman Melville 1819
• Arthur Hill 1922
• Lionel Bart 1930
• Geoffrey Holder 1930
• Tom Wilson 1931
• Ramblin' Jack Elliot 1931
• Dom DeLuise 1933
• Yves Saint Laurent 1936
• Giancarlo Giannini 1942
• Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) 1942
• Boz Burrell (Bad Company) 1946
  
• Tim Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1951
• Robert Cray 1953
• Michael Penn 1958
• Robert Buck (10,000 Maniacs) 1958
• Joe Elliot (Def Leppard) 1959
• Suzi Gardner (L7) 1960
• Chuck D (Public Enemy) 1960
• Coolio 1963
• Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) 1964
• George Ducas 1966
• Charlie Kelley (Buffalo Club) 1968
• Tempestt Bledsoe 1973
• Taylor Fry 1981
• Asheley Angel (O-Town) 1981