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- Eloquence # Fluent, Articulate, Expressive, Silver-tongued, Persuasive in speaking.
Sensuality and Senses # One of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

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Figuur: Cham, Le mois comique, Le Monde illustré, 1er mai 1869. Lequel des deux a appris à l’autre à se répéter ?... Mais bah ! il y tant d’esprit dans cette note-là !

Vert-Vert. Opéra comique en 3 actes. Musique de J. Offenbach. E. Heu, Éditeur. Paris, 1869. Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Musique, VM5-2070.
Vert-Vert was inspired by the famous poem, written by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset in 1734. In this, the parrot Ver-Vert is the adored pet in a convent at Nevers. He has learned to speak, and is admired by visitors and all the sisters.
Jamais du mal il n’avait eu l’idée,Ne disait onc un immodest mot:Mais en revanche il savait des cantiquesDes oremus, des colloques mystiques;Il disait bein son benedicite,Et notre mere, et votre charité
The bird is sent on a voyage to Nantes, to lodge with a different order, but on the voyage falls in with a bad crowd, forgets the sacred phrases he had learned from the nuns, and shocks his new companions with his gutter language.
‘Jour de dieu!…Mor!…mille pipes de diables!’Toute la grille, à ces mots effroyables,Tremble d’horreur; les nonettes sans voixFont, en fuyant, mille signes de croix
Returned in disgrace, and confined to his cage, he is gradually weaned back to the paths of righteousness, and the parrot dies in a new state of piety. In its day Ver-Vert had been seen as anti-clerical, but had survived as a classic example of the conte en vers.
Geraadpleegd op (..), van //operetta-research-center.org/offenbach-opera-comique-vert-vert

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PM. (2009). Pappa Haydn. [Digital Image].
Ein heiliges Ritual. Dennoch war Haydn ironisch genug, dieselbe, von ihm hoch geschätzte Melodie, seinem Papagei beizubringen, auf dass dieser sie zahlreichen Besuchern entgegenkrächzte.
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The Inventur und Schätzung der Joseph Haydnischen Kunstsachen—the catalogue of the auction of Haydn’s personal collection following his death in 1809—is preserved in the Musiksammlung of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.
One of the items listed therein was a living parrot. During the composer’s later years, the parrot enjoyed warm days in its cage in Haydn’s Vienna courtyard, mocking the sparrows on the neighbors’ roofs. It could whistle a full octave, sing the opening of the national anthem, and call out “Come, Papa Haydn, to the beautiful Paperi!”
Geraadpleegd op (..), van //bibliolore.org/2022/03/31/haydns-parrot/

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