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Marriage as Baroque Music

Marriage as Baroque Music ANGE MLINKO “We ask that tonight you share a program.” Much of the crowd is older than I am. Even older: this idea of love consecrated in a cedar grove. Komm, mein Heiland, mein Verlangen, vom Libanon gegangen! “Come, my Savior, my desire, from Lebanon return!” .. . So Buxtehude’s lyric goes. Two singers. The soprano’s built like an ox; the mezzo-s’s highest note’s topped by tresses and there’s an element of mirth when, ignoring the other’s girth, she locks gazes with her, passionate: Solomon and Sheba duet. Furthermore—the theorbo. Strictly for the anachronism lover! It keeps threatening to keel over, an unanchored pendulum. Pity the swain who is made to pluck a serenade while steadying, without a strap, this metronomic member in his lap. Because our hiatus is on hiatus; because a friend, so hopeful for us, left me two tickets at will call; Literary Imagination, volume 18, number 1, pp. 24–25 doi:10.1093/litimag/imu039 Advance Access published February 11, 2015 Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers 2015. This work is written by a US Government employee and is in the public domain in the US. 25 because music is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Literary Imagination Oxford University Press

Marriage as Baroque Music

Mlinko, Ange
Literary Imagination , Volume 18 (1) – Mar 11, 2016
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ANGE MLINKO “We ask that tonight you share a program.” Much of the crowd is older than I am. Even older: this idea of love consecrated in a cedar grove. Komm, mein Heiland, mein Verlangen, vom Libanon gegangen! “Come, my Savior, my desire, from Lebanon return!” .. . So Buxtehude’s lyric goes. Two singers. The soprano’s built like an ox; the mezzo-s’s highest note’s topped by tresses and there’s an element of mirth when, ignoring the other’s girth, she locks gazes with her, passionate: Solomon and Sheba duet. Furthermore—the theorbo. Strictly for the anachronism lover! It keeps threatening to keel over, an unanchored pendulum. Pity the swain who is made to pluck a serenade while steadying, without a strap, this metronomic member in his lap. Because our hiatus is on hiatus; because a friend, so hopeful for us, left me two tickets at will call; Literary Imagination, volume 18, number 1, pp. 24–25 doi:10.1093/litimag/imu039 Advance Access published February 11, 2015 Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers 2015. This work is written by a US Government employee and is in the public domain in the US. 25 because music is

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