Blowin' Sax
One of the band teachers in my school, Al Homicz, is a real good guy and a terrific musician. The video below is one of him playing "Seasons of Love" on his saxophone at our faculty talent show in November.
The lyrics of the song are catchy but flawed. After you watch the video, please read the correction I have issued beneath it.
I always knew that math and music were closely knit as are music and science, particularly physics. But we have a glaring flaw in how “you measure a year.” As written, “Seasons of Love” should only be sung three out of every four years excluding leap year, as each year actually has 365.25 days. It is our limited Caesarian calendar that fibs to us each year in its assertion that one freakish year out of four is actually longer than the “normal” years of 365 days.
In order to be sung with mathematic and astronomic accuracy, we need to change the lyrics to 525,960 minutes. Then the apparent unit multiplier from minutes to moments is approximately .9989 moments/minute thereby requiring a second lyrical change from 525,000 moments to “approximately 526,539 moments” with an identical change to “journeys to plan.”
Obviously the lyric writer is a very busy person with both a moment and a journey planning session occurring simultaneously and in less than one minute! Perhaps if more time were taken it wouldn’t be necessary for people like me to follow behind and correct glaring mistakes. Haste makes waste, after all.
The lyrics of the song are catchy but flawed. After you watch the video, please read the correction I have issued beneath it.
I always knew that math and music were closely knit as are music and science, particularly physics. But we have a glaring flaw in how “you measure a year.” As written, “Seasons of Love” should only be sung three out of every four years excluding leap year, as each year actually has 365.25 days. It is our limited Caesarian calendar that fibs to us each year in its assertion that one freakish year out of four is actually longer than the “normal” years of 365 days.
In order to be sung with mathematic and astronomic accuracy, we need to change the lyrics to 525,960 minutes. Then the apparent unit multiplier from minutes to moments is approximately .9989 moments/minute thereby requiring a second lyrical change from 525,000 moments to “approximately 526,539 moments” with an identical change to “journeys to plan.”
Obviously the lyric writer is a very busy person with both a moment and a journey planning session occurring simultaneously and in less than one minute! Perhaps if more time were taken it wouldn’t be necessary for people like me to follow behind and correct glaring mistakes. Haste makes waste, after all.
posted by Bueche | 6:44 PM
2 Comments:
Tom,
You, my friend, have way too much time on your hand.
:)
Kim C.
Tom-
You lost me after the second sentence. It was like the first time I tried to read the book of Ezekial.
By, the way is that one of those things you were able to find out in the mysterious teacher's lounge? I always wondered what really goes on in there. :)
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