Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo | 
 enlarge | Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 62787
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 28
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0761105948
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.2920207
UPC: 019628105943
EAN: 9780761105947
ASIN: 0761105948
Publication Date: January 9, 1996
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"Tempus porco nihil est," or, "Time to a pig means zilch," according to Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo, a very funny takeoff on the Gregorian chant craze by Sandra Boynton, the author of Chocolate: The Consuming Passion and other droll volumes. This amusing little book, complete with a well-sung 40-minute compact disc by the Ad Hog Camerata, is a note-perfect send-up of chant and the hype that surrounds it. At the same time, the book presents the musical chronicle of a day in the life of one seriously pretentious farm. Boynton's pictures--from the cover to the "illuminations"--are a delight. The cows speak for record company executives everywhere when they intone, "Non plaudite. Modo pecuniam jacite." (Don't applaud, just throw money.) This would make a perfect gift for a musical friend, and if no one gets it for you, you'd be well justified in buying it for yourself for a quick pick-me-up or chant overdose antidote.
Product Description
GRUNT is a good-natured satirical response to the Gregorian Chant phenomenon. The compact disc-sized, full-color illustrated book details the origins of Pigorian Chant, and gives the entire text and translation of the accompanying forty-minute CD--from the Chant of Repose (Ore-snay, ore-snay: "Snore, Snore") to the Chant of Sublime Anticipation (Op-slay, Ime-tay: "Slop Time"). The beautiful recording, performed by past members of the Yale Glee Club and conducted by Emeritus Director Fenno Heath, is indistinguishable from authentic plain chant and polyphony, unless you listen closely.
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 Insulting garbage October 29, 2008
susan smith (texas usa)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This has to be the most insulting, immature biased creation of a loser to say the least. The Gregorian Chant is the best music in the world as it is of the Roman Catholic Church and, where music began! The author of this garbage is clearly anti-church and anti Spanish as she is trying to demise the great holy Monks at Santo Domingo in Spain. She should be ashamed od herself. Anyone who purchases this garbage is wasting their money and soul. Better to purchase the real Gregorian Chants by the great Monks at Santo Domingo! What a treat to listen to in this age of spiritual mediocrity!
 Wake with a smile May 14, 2008
C. Horn (Center of the Universe)
Orsnay, Orsnay....I love these songs but especially this one that encourages my husband to get up on a Saturday morning and take me out to breakfast. The singers are excellent. If you don't listen closely you don't realize it is Pig Latin.
Have fun!
Makes you say "What?" March 28, 2008
J. L. Dietzman (SoCal)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I spend the next few hours snickering every time I listen to this spoof. I have sung in semi-professional chorales for years, and have done my fair share of chants and singing in Latin. The styling is impeccable; the verbal twists are knee-slappers - Malapropian Latin 101. If you don't understand or like gregorian chanting or music sung in Latin, take a big pass on this book. However, for those of you who have ever sung in Latin, you gotta read the libretto. I dare you to not snigger as you read the translation of "Hic una moo, ibi una moo, ubique una moo moo." (Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo, moo). Methinks you will not do much ore-snaying.
 Time to a listener had better mean zilch (grin) February 27, 2008
John Wheeler (King David's Harp, Inc., Houston, TX. USA)
This may be the first product I have ever seen (anywhere!) for which every point of view expressed by the reviewers has validity. If you have even a passing background in Latin, Gregorian chant, and the Catholic Mass (along with considerable concentration and tolerance of Pig Latin), you'll probably find this send-up of CHANT very funny. If you lack one or more of these, then you'll likely wish the tempis would fugit faster, or else you'll get up to carpe the diem elsewhere.
This CD is really satire, not comedy, and therefore not to everyone's taste (either for adults or especially for children). I too wished the send-up of "Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O" had a citation of that venerable tune (preferably in a church mode). Peter Schickele's P.D.Q. Bach wouldn't have missed the chance, precisely because the latter is comedy rather than satire. (But then, Boynton & Co. do what they do seriously and on purpose; P.D.Q. did it - in his Missa Hilarious - by irreverent incompetence.)
That said, the straight-faced tone of the art and the music (leavened with Boynton's inimitable humor) has just the right touch for the subject, right down to the bells chiming the hours. Now if we could only persuade the author to do an album about the glories of chocolate...
PIGORIAN CHANT February 8, 2008
Marjorie Jane Austin (EDMOND, OK USA)
I HAVE GIVEN MANY COPIES OF THIS LOVEY WORK AWAY TO FRIENDS. I NEVER LISTEN TO IT WITHOUT REAL JOY. IT TOOK SUCH A LOT OF TIME FOR THIS TO BE PRODUCED. BUT IT WAS A LABOR SO VERY WORTH IT. IT PROVIDED A REAL JOYFUL EVENING FOR A COLLEGE COURSE ON THE HISTORY OF MUSIC.
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