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Summary: Outstanding in its field!
Review: A friend shared her book/CD with me, and I immediately had to get my own copy and buy another to use as a gift. Especially funny for those in agricultural careers ... not all of us are country/western fans, and it's hard to find classical agricultural music!
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Summary: PoIGnant. A masterpiece of misplaced erudition
Review: Anyone with a classical degree, proficiency in early American schoolyard slang, a musical heritage and a sense of humor will revel in this work of breadth and brilliance. Highly recommended to the overeducated eccentric. The CD should be played as background music at your next party. Those who notice and comment are to be cultivated as friends worthy of greater interest.
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Summary: Quality Music with quality humor
Review: As others have noted, this book gets most of its humor value from the parody of the current trendy "Gregorian Chant for new age yuppies" albums, but the underlying concept is fun for anybody who knows a little Latin, grew up Catholic, or just likes erudite barnyard animals. And, unlike the P.D.Q. Bach works, no real knowledge of classical music is needed to appreciate much of the humor here.The real prize in this package is not the book, but the CD. This is good-quality music done by real musicians, who don't let the humorous content of the chant distract them from their skills. The text, where the pigs sing Pig Latin while the other animals sing Latin, is full of Latin translations of English idiom, and the snide comments of the chickens, delivered by angelic, ethereal female voices, win out-loud laughter from everyone for whom I've played the disc
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Summary: Quality Music with quality humor
Review: As others have noted, this book gets most of its humor value from the parody of the current trendy "Gregorian Chant for new age yuppies" albums, but the underlying concept is fun for anybody who knows a little Latin, grew up Catholic, or just likes erudite barnyard animals. And, unlike the P.D.Q. Bach works, no real knowledge of classical music is needed to appreciate much of the humor here.
The real prize in this package is not the book, but the CD. This is good-quality music done by real musicians, who don't let the humorous content of the chant distract them from their skills. The text, where the pigs sing Pig Latin while the other animals sing Latin, is full of Latin translations of English idiom, and the snide comments of the chickens, delivered by angelic, ethereal female voices, win out-loud laughter from everyone for whom I've played the disc
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Summary: High concept joke
Review: Best sprung on a friend who is (a) a Latin scholar, (b) a medievilist, or (c) a Gregorian fanatic - preferably all three. Would have been better if so much of the first song wasn't in pig-Latin. (Your unsuspecting victim will never believe that repetitive OR-SNAY-ing is real Latin). And the album drags on a bit too long. But I'd love to walk into my favorite pseudo-pretentious book store and hear this over the sound system
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Summary: A one-trick piggy
Review: Don't get me wrong. I love Sandra Boynton's work. I've been a huge fan since the first time I saw a "Hippo Birdie Two Ewe" card, longer ago than I care to remember. I bought many copies of the Chocolate book and give them to new friends when I hear they love chocolate.
I bought this Pigorian Chant book/CD when I heard about it. But for me, the joke extends too far. After reading the cover and hearing about a minute of the CD, everything else is repetition -- more of the same joke.
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Summary: OINK!
Review: Good stuff...a real good time for a music student....
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Summary: Allemoolia!
Review: Grunt is an absolutely delightful sendup of the various popular "Chant" CDs. Boynton skewers the superficially spiritual with deadly aim, and tosses in some great sounding chant at the same time. She manages to do this without being in the least offensive (and this from someone who learned her first Latin chant more that 40 years ago -and still sings in the choir.) The polyphony of the chickens is not to be missed. Gopher baroque, Sandra! Don't let the turkeys get you down!
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Summary: OINK!
Review: I received this book/CD combo as a gift. The giver requested that I listen and read immediately. Howl! From start to finish, I laughed! The chant (grunt) is authentic, and true to Gregorian modes. The musicians are first rate, though I am not sure how they recorded this without laughing! Basically, what Boynton and her cohorts have done, is spoof the ever-so-popular "Chant" recordings. It details the day in the lives of some barn animals. The humor is subtle, and it would almost be worth it to learn Latin all over again. After studying the Chant form for a semester in college, I am sure that I find the humor funnier than the average non-music major. Still, it is a great parody that everyone should hear at least once.
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Summary: Ore-snay, ore-snay!
Review: I received this book/CD combo as a gift. The giver requested that I listen and read immediately. Howl! From start to finish, I laughed! The chant (grunt) is authentic, and true to Gregorian modes. The musicians are first rate, though I am not sure how they recorded this without laughing! Basically, what Boynton and her cohorts have done, is spoof the ever-so-popular "Chant" recordings. It details the day in the lives of some barn animals. The humor is subtle, and it would almost be worth it to learn Latin all over again. After studying the Chant form for a semester in college, I am sure that I find the humor funnier than the average non-music major. Still, it is a great parody that everyone should hear at least once.
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