I read the Mark Twain and now I'm frankly afraid to read the Homer Price.
But I did get a chuckle from Twain before the relentless earworm returned
right there, PUNCH in the presence of the passenjare. Allemande left like a
rabbit and a hare, then promenade all with nare' a bear care.
Jerome
Mark Twain was familiar with the concept of an ear worm.
https://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/mark-twain-a-literary-nig.html
Robert McCloskey's Homer Price also encountered an ear worm in "Pie and
Punch and You-Know-Whats", the last chapter of "Centerburg Tales".
The key to ear worm relief is that the substitute tune must (a) not have any
tempting/endless-loop repeats in it, (b) should be interesting/varied enough to
hold your attention long enough to blot out the ear worm, and (c) must have a
clear & final/satisfying ending.
My go-to is Stars &
I find earworm relief in Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy (solo piano). Best
wishes … Bob
> On May 3, 2022, at 11:23 AM, Amy Cann via Contra Callers
> wrote:
>
> You need an EarwormCancellationDevice (I forget how to say it in German).
>
> It's a tune -- personal to you, everyone has their
You need an EarwormCancellationDevice (I forget how to say it in German).
It's a tune -- personal to you, everyone has their own -- that when
you sing or hum it will nudge the parasite out and take its place, and
then you can stop singing *it*. It's a two-step process.
The person who educated
Curse you callers & musicians. I am now infected with one of the most
insidious of parasites: The earworm Baumontum Raggus. The nasty little
creature is crawling through my subconscious at a leisurely 86 bpm,
frequently raising its volume and causing erratic shoulder shimmies and the
occasional
I think the reason I hear it as AABB is that it has two 32-beat sections:
one that starts on the IV (I think -- I don't have an instrument in front
of me) and one that starts on the I. And each of those sections divides
into two 16-beat sections, each of which start with the same ~8 beats
before
