Wordie: Oud: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:20:26 +0000

I love that about the NYT--everyone rates an honorific.

Comment by yarb, 11 months ago

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:16:09 +0000

By referring to the singer as "Mr. Rose" throughout, the review comes across as amusingly quaint and po-faced; by the end I have in my mind a curious image of Axl as a Pooter-ish Victorian civil servant.

Comment by John, 11 months ago

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:42:54 +0000

“‘If the World’ opens with acoustic guitar lines suggesting a Middle Eastern oud but segues into wah-wah rhythm guitar and sustained strings fit for a blaxploitation soundtrack, while Mr. Rose unleashes something like a soul falsetto.”

The New York Times, How Axl Rose Spent All That Time , by Jon Pareles, November 20, 2008

Comment by bilby, 12 months ago

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:39:42 +0000

I miss, how I miss my mother's ancient clock, family photos framed on the wall
I miss my oud
For all its silent, severed strings

Time's out and I'm home alone
The curfew hurts
It hurts me, no it kills me, the killing of children near my home

I'm afraid of tomorrow...
- Fadwa Touqan, 'Longing Inspired by the Law of Gravity', translated from the Arabic by Chris Millis and Tania Tamari Nasir.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:33:23 +0000

"The wooden body of the larger instrument may have given it its name: in Arabic, al-oud means 'from wood.' The oud would undergo a long development, emerging in the third century A.D. as a stable family of Arabic stringed instruments. Today the oud is known as ut or ud in Turkey, laouta in Greece, and udi in parts of Africa. The instrument spread across North Africa with the Muslims and appeared in Europe with the Moorish invasion of Spain in 711. There the al-oud became the lute."
—Glenn Kurtz, Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music (New York: Vintage Books, 2007), 106

Comment by arby, over 2 years ago

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:48:34 +0000

Not to be confused with oude.