Name: Sufjan Stevens: The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us (Live) by AGForero
Duration: 8 min 15 s
Description: Because I'm tired of watching this on YouTube, here's a live rendition of The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us. Via Max (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU9JnHp4zaAhglBKTEcRfMA) on YouTube.

Because I'm tired of watching this on YouTube, here's a live rendition of The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us. Via Max (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU9JnHp4zaAhglBKTEcRfMA) on YouTube.

Sufjan Stevens: The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us (Live)

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A few years ago I tried setting this text to music; it’s very well known here among students because it is considered one of the earliest attestations of the Italian language. Discovered on an inner leaf of a liturgical codex preserved in Verona, it was written between the 8th and 9th centuries by an anonymous hand. It is regarded as a “riddle” (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronese_Riddle), generating an enormous amount of scholarship. 
To me, its musicality is evident. 

Compared to the version I recorded in 2018 (I had posted it on YouTube, where it still is), based on the Washburn and the sounds of my old Yamaha, I added some VSTs and re-equalized the vocals. Back then, multiplying the vocal tracks was the most fun part, in order to obtain a choral effect. What came out is what I would call a “false traditional folk song".

The cover illustration is found on one of the opening pages of an 11th-century manuscript preserved at the British Library (Cotton MS Tiberius B. V — see here: https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/12286/).

Text (original / english translation)

Se pareba boves
alba pratalia araba
et albo versorio teneba
et negro semen seminaba

He led oxen in front of him
ploughed white fields
And held a white plough
And sowed black seed

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