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Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo
by Sandra Boynton
from Workman Publishing Company

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Wake with a smile
  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?"
  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... more info

• Time to a listener had better mean zilch (grin)
  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,... more info

• PIGORIAN CHANT
  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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