[LAU] OT: musicmadewithlinux: Mozart Symphony #40

[Brett McCoy]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:01:29AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> Lyrics by Schikaneder, not Mozart. And they are not any more or
> less stupid than for example:
>
>   Hey joe, where you goin' with that gun of your hand
>   Hey joe, i said where you goin' with that gun in your hand, oh
>   I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady
>   You know i caught her messin' 'round with another man
>
> by Jimi Hendrix. In both cases, they serve to paint a quick
> picture of a character, in Mozart's case quite a frivolous one,
> in Hendrix' case something more dark.

And in Hendrix case, he also didn't write the lyrics, they were
written by Billy Roberts, but he did a masterful job of elaborating
the song in his unique style.

-- 
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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