![]() Note: There is no major difference in Pitt Zoom between a student account and a teacher account. Using Zoom for Student or Group Presentations. ![]() Using Hardware to Share Better Handwriting.How to Write on the Screen During a Zoom Meeting.While thus we agree, our toast let it be.This article covers a few different popular uses of Zoom for remote instruction, and answers frequently-asked-questions about using Zoom in these scenarios. You’ve the sanction of gods, and the fiat of Jove. ‘Tis your’s to support what’s so happily plan’d Ye sons of Anacreon, then, join hand in hand Then, Jove, be not jealous of these honest fellows.Ĭry’d Jove, We relent, since the truth you now tell us Īnd swear by Old Styx that they long shall entwine, The full tide of harmony still shall be his,īut the song, and the catch, and the laugh shall be mine Next Momus got up, with his risible phiz Īnd swore with Apollo he’d cheerfully join. Whilst snug in their club-room, they jovially twine, ![]() So my sons from your crackers no mischief shall dread, Then over each head my laurels I’ll spread Your thunder is useless - then, shewing his laurel, Good King of the gods, with my vot’ries below! I’ll trim the young dogs for thus daring to twine,Īpollo rose up and said, Pr’ythee ne’er quarrel, My Thunder, no fear on’t shall soon do its errand,Īnd dam’me! I’ll swing the ringleaders, I warrant. Idalia will boast but of tenantless shades,Īnd the biforked hill a mere desert will be. The yellow-hair’d god, and his nine fusty maids,įrom Helicon’s banks will incontinent flee. Hark! already they cry in transports of joy.Īnd there with good fellows, we’ll learn to entwine, The devil a goddess will stay above stairs. If these mortals are suffer’d their scheme to pursue, When Old Thunder pretended to give himself airs. The news through Olympus immediately flew I’ll lend ye my name, and inspire you to boot,Īnd, besides, I’ll instruct you, like me, to entwine, Voice, fiddle and flute, no longer be mute. When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian. That he their inspirer and patron would be To Anacreon, in Heav’n, where he sat in full glee, Thus, we’ve repeated that gesture here.įor more on “The Anacreontic Song” and its reputation as a drinking song, see my earlier post on the topic. Here the actors were instructed to literally join hand in hand in imitation of the Society. play discussed by Sonneck that parodied the Anacreontic Society with a similar anthem. We sang the final verse as a group in response both to the text and a stage direction from an 18c. To my knowledge the video and recording above is the first attempt to try to recreate a performance as it might have been experienced at a meeting of London’s Anacreontic Society. Turns out the tune was never intended for mass singing. That the tune was intended for solo performance by an experienced vocalist helps explain why many complain today that “The Star-Spangled Banner” is difficult at best to sing. (Full lyric below.)Īn anthem of The Anacreontic Society, an amateur musician’s fraternity, the song was performed by the club’s president and is thus most appropriately realized in a semi-trained “operatic” styled voice. This performance is realized from its first 1779 imprint, published by London’s Longman and Broderip and a copy of which is held by the University of Michigan’s Clements Library. The precise date that this club anthem of London’s Anacreontic Society was written is unknown (at least to me), but it was likely in the 1760s or early 1770s. “The Anacreontic Song,” or “To Anacreon in Heaven” with words by Ralph Tomlinson and music by John Stafford Smith is the source for the tune Francis Scott Key had in mind when he composed the lyric “In Defence of Fort McHenry” to celebrate the surprising and heroic victory of American troops stationed at Fort McHenry and aided by the people of Baltimore against the British Fleet on 14 September 1814.
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