[Trombone-l] Black Trombone (Gainsburg)

[Chris Tune]

Seems to me he is singing in modern, non-formal French.  The words "Black Trombone" are hybrid.  "Trombone" is the word for trombone and also for "paper-clip". Black would normally be "Noir", and "Black Trombone" would be "Trombone noir". . .

But then it seems to me modern conversational French can involve borrowed words.  Mostly borrowed from Modern English as in American English.  Maybe a bit for food it may use Japanese, or Chinese.  We speak about "Dim Sum" here when going out to eat.

My impression is that French is hard to sing in.  It is designed to be very fluid (it has connector sounds called "liason" which hook together and smooth out the speech), but it is not helped in diction by many hard consonants and consonant combos like English and especially German.  The consonants make it easier to deliver the diction.

Of course, well spoken French is beautiful to listen to.

A good recording picks up everything, too.

I liked the tune and the video.
Chris

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Listen this clip too : http://video.moncinema.ch/video/iLyROoaftUNm.html !
Jean

> Message du 25/09/08 21:20
> De : "Eliezer Aharoni" 
> A : Trombone-l at samford.edu
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> Objet : [Trombone-l] Black Trombone (Gainsburg)
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> 
> Hi Listers
> Check the following clip - great trombone playing and animation.
> Youtube will also lead to similar clips of same song.
> Somebody knows anything about the original performers? (from France).
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlj1snWaYMQ
> 
> Enjoy!!!
> Eliezer Aharoni
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