You're asking me to tell about a homework from 1988, in dutch, when I was 8 years old. I think the last sentence was 'honderdduizend apen hingen daar te gapen' being translated to 'titi titi ta ta. Titi titi ta ta'.
The weird thing is: I could do it, even if I had no idea what I was doing. There was some pronunciation that seemed natural. My answers were mostly right ( Or maybe I got a good grade just for turning something in?).
Also, the teacher was a really nice lady, she was good with the piano and knew music, and she did teach us what she was supposed to. I have fond memories for her lessons. She succeeded.
I just think, the first lesson being a bit if a sampler, she didn't want to scare kids away. Artsy people sometimes have learned that math must be hard. So she accidentally oversimplified for me. I have no idea if the other kids felt the same. She might even have self-corrected starting the third lesson.
> I think the last sentence was 'honderdduizend apen hingen daar te gapen' being translated to 'titi titi ta ta. Titi titi ta ta'.
Oh wow, interesting, so the exercise was really taking a Dutch language sentence and breaking it into musical syllables? I'm more confused than before because the example here has 6 words and ends up as 8 notes -- but that could just be something I don't follow since I don't know Dutch. Unless 'honderdduizend' ('hundred thousand' it seems) is a compound that makes sense to split into two?
I don’t speak dutch but a language descendant from it and I completely understand how it would be broken down that way.
Effectively I would pronounce honderdduizend as 4 quick syllables.
Again do not speak dutch and translate the same work into my languages pronunciation which I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t almost identical. “Honderd duisend” if you are interested.
>You're asking me to tell about a homework from 1988, in dutch, when I was 8 years old
Well asking certainly, but I'm not demanding? I don't know, seems like a very weird application. I certainly don't know ANY dutch, which doesn't help.
Is it just a "rhythm" mapping exercise based on the syllables? I probably read the first post a little bit to literally.
Yeah that 'asking' sounded wrong. Sorry. Read it as 'dont quote me on this, long time ago, memory untrustworthy'.
As an adult, I can say today: It is indeed a rhythm exercise, with some syllables being longer than others. I just wish someone had told me this at the time.