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Blues Standards - Translating Songs into Latin

Blues Standards - Translating Songs into Latin

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Alex Nusky
Jul 10, 2021
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Euterpe has not been as kind to me this week. I wanted to translate some blues standards into Latin, but I ran into two main difficulties. The first was that certain songs in this genre are lyrically very straightforward: It doesn’t feel right to write out “Amor Abest” a dozen times and say that I translated “The Thrill is Gone” because it’s too easy. I…

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