Tasks / Revive The Oral Tradition
Prepare and perform a traditional-style ballad (ie. 'a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas') either with accompaniment or a cappella.
Your ballad may relate the epic greatness (or total lack thereof) you achieved in the course of completing a task for the game.
1 to 5 players
45 points
Level 3
In the zone of: The University of Aesthematics
Created by anna one
3 completed :: 0 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
this task is retired
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Lyrical science about to be th'owed up in here!
first draft's done vixen. how you doin?
Have the idea, the set up/subject, the accompaniment, location, outfit, voice, technical equipment; now for the first draft. By the way: I'm going to take my time writing, editing and practicing. I don't write my pieces in one or two days; I polish them up to make them perfect over the course of a week or more. I love stream of consciousness, but writing a ballad is a complicated process. It is either an ABAB rhyme scheme or ABAC. Remember, it must be in iambic pentameter with an 8686 syllable count. If you are to write a ballad correctly, of course.
Have you done this?
Another reason why I haven't actually written it yet is that I had four papers due this week, a midterm, a take home midterm and an art critique. This was all done between sunday and this morning. AND I'm leaving for Vancouver after class today, so all the work had to be done before them. I must also pack.
Oh, and I must also write my personal statement for my transfer application to UC Berkely. And I need to get my papers together to start and Anthropology club before I submit my application (by November 31st). I'm swamped at the moment.
But I with you the best with your progress.
-V
ah ha hee is it time that we shall duel about our lives?
we'll talk of kids and relatives, church papers we're behind?
when that's not enough to make our nut we'll bandy this about:
some notion that the rules state a schema or a count?
we spread warnings so pedantic'ly and add words where there are none!
the rest might come to think on these that "style" equals "must"
if syllables and numeric precision
are so stated up above
elucidate us with your vision
how many days in Nov?
We have what, two weeks? If you don't want to stick with the traditional ballad structure, that's fine. I was just bugging you about finishing so early :)
Good luck
Off to Vancouver I go!
yes quantuus tremour est futurus tammus labor non site cassus
UT IMPLERENTOUR SCRRRIPTURAE do strike up a ballad eh-
thy reason is womanishy! sick with groans of weakness be ye
none the wiser for this challenge, imagine eating tripe and cowhead?
couldn't sink you tried: so thickened with salt. Because the weight of the
no, the wait of the body in the water is equal to the weight of the what?
or the weight is equal to the volume ? It's a law something, like no law you know &
looking pale as primrose, you see we'll have no extra innings
gonna be some deadly venom here, right from the beginning
why wait? quidquid latet apparebit unde mundus judicetur.
Your return has renewed my vigor; I will sing despite my haggard voice. Choking for a week with the flu has only made it more sultry anyways.
The Ulysses and Mozart is both beautiful and intriguing. But where is your own creative voice? Will your ballad be simply a text full of strung together excerpts as well? Your quilts of imagery and poetic greatness are pretty, though incredibly unoriginal.
Now show me your true creativity and sing me a ballad without your normal crutches. If you can, that is.
-V
Whew! I was afraid to see humping animals.
Praxis
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I just thought I'd put that out there.