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Post by Lori on Oct 5, 2005 9:14:33 GMT
We’re gonna be laughing about this We’re gonna be dancing around It’s gonna be so good now It’s gonna be so good
Oh so exciting, mmh go on and on Every time you leave us So Summer will be gone So you’ll never grow old to us
It’s gonna be so good now It’s gonna be so good Can you see the lark ascending?
Oh so romantic, swept me off my feet Like some kind of magic Like the light in Italy Lost its way across the sea..
Roma Roma mia Tesoro mio, bella Pieno di sole luce Bali cozi bene, bene Pianissimo Pianissimo
The chorus: What a lovely afternoon What a lovely afternoon Oh will you come with us To find the song of the oil and the brush?
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Post by Sheila on Nov 10, 2005 19:26:11 GMT
Copy of a message from an Italian friend: I cant translate it word for word it would not make sense, because we speak backwards in a sense Roma Roma Mia word for word is Rome Rome mine, ok but what it means is my Rome. get it. ok so saying it the way I would hear it she is saying my Rome my beautiful treasure, full of sun light, Dance good like that, slow slow. see sounds dumb in English,must be why she sang it in Italian. LOL!! MOST TIMES THE TRANSLATING IS NOT AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE. I asked him in case anyone was curious. note: Opinions stated in message are not necessarily that of the poster's.
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Post by Adey on Nov 10, 2005 21:17:44 GMT
Thanks for taking the trouble to get a translation for us non Italian speakers. I was curious I must admit..
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Post by matanchik on Nov 18, 2005 10:27:56 GMT
the bass line in the start reminds me a lot of the one in "under ice". Also she used the line "what a lovely afternoon" already in "you want alchemy" i also just noticed when kate says "pianissimo" the song gets louder while everyone who learned music knows that pianissimo means "very quietly"
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Post by Sheila on Nov 19, 2005 11:55:05 GMT
i also just noticed when kate says "pianissimo" the song gets louder while everyone who learned music knows that pianissimo means "very quietly" Hey I knew music and didn't know this---I had to ask my Italian friend.
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Post by Adey on Nov 19, 2005 12:14:17 GMT
Hey I knew music and didn't know this---I had to ask my Italian friend. Forte (f) - Loud Fortissimo (ff) - Very Loud Fortississimo (fff) - Extremely Loud Piano (p) - Quietly Pianissimo (pp) - Very Quietly Pianississimo (ppp) - Extremely Quietly In a musical score any more than 3 Fs or Ps is very unlikely, although Tchaikovsky used pppppp in his Pathetique Symphony, which I guess would be pianissississississimo - Unbelievably Quietly. And is also pretty silly really..
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Post by Al Truest on Nov 19, 2005 19:20:17 GMT
Hey I knew music and didn't know this---I had to ask my Italian friend. Forte (f) - Loud Fortissimo (ff) - Very Loud Fortississimo (fff) - Extremely Loud Piano (p) - Quietly Pianissimo (pp) - Very Quietly Pianississimo (ppp) - Extremely Quietly In a musical score any more than 3 Fs or Ps is very unlikely, although Tchaikovsky used pppppp in his Pathetique Symphony, which I guess would be pianissississississimo - Unbelievably Quietly. And is also pretty silly really..And the one used by parents of untalented fledgling keyboardists as they practice - Pissa-me-off (stfu) - Shut the F#ck up!
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Post by simpleton on Jan 19, 2006 11:29:20 GMT
Anyway, this song has definitely grown on me. It didnt really stick in the beginning, but now I really love it. I read at the Homeground forum that the Italian is wrong in several places. (it should be mio bello for example) but since I dont speak italian, it doesnt spoil the song for me.
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Post by tannis on Mar 14, 2008 4:48:32 GMT
Oh so romantic, swept me off my feet Like some kind of magic Like the light in Italy Lost its way across the sea..from Kate Bush and the war of Wuthering Heights "But now the local council has received formal complaints about the singer's installation of CCTV cameras that spy on people using a secluded beach below her £2.5million property in the picturesque South Hams peninsula... "The Devon hideaway, which The Mail on Sunday has decided not to name, is believed to have provided the inspiration for much of Kate's most recent album Aerial - released in November 2005 - which has endless coastal references to sunsets, sunrises, boats and birds." St Ives, Cornwall, is synonymous with art. Since the end of the nineteenth century there has been a thriving art community in St Ives. Artists have gathered in St Ives to draw inspiration from its spectacular, unspoilt coastline and to capture the unique, translucent quality of the light here - there is something special about the quality of the light in St Ives which appeals to landscape (or seascape) artists and which is felt to be unique to West Cornwall. Early visitors included J.M.W. Turner and Whistler, and in the first half of the twentieth century, artists like Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo settled in St Ives and established it as focal point for the abstract avant-garde movement in Cornwall. As a result of the artistic heritage of St Ives, the new St Ives Tate Gallery - a branch of the London Tate Gallery - was built and opened in 1993. So maybe the light lost its way from Cornwall? ... see more: Remote: Kate Bush's Devon home with the boathousewww.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23395189-details/Kate+Bush+and+the+war+of+Wuthering+Heights/article.doSt Ives Art www.porthminster-hotel.co.uk/inspirationalbreaks/st-ives-art.php
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Post by Adey on Mar 31, 2008 0:49:00 GMT
Barabara Hepworth was one of a whole crew drawn to St Ives. As you observed, it is the unique quality of the light in this incredible town. Work from many of her artists decorate my home. It has been too long since I was last there - something I will fix this year...
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Post by tannis on Jan 10, 2009 23:50:24 GMT
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