{"id":5279,"date":"2011-06-02T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2011-06-02T16:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:49:25","slug":"bones-of-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=5279","title":{"rendered":"Bones of earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A composer called <a href=\"http:\/\/haydanielhay.blogspot.com\">Daniel J Hay<\/a> contacted me today asking for help with a piece he&#8217;s working on entitled <em>Tears For Earth<\/em>. In the first movement, <em>Bones of Earth<\/em>, he wants to have a chorus of speakers in counterpoint to the tenor solo repeating the phrase &#8220;bones of earth&#8221; (or &#8220;the bones of the earth&#8221;) in various languages. Could you help with this? <\/p>\n<p>The translations should ideally be in the Latin\/Roman alphabet and have notes on how to pronounce them.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few that I came up with:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Welsh: esgyrn y ddaear (esgeern uh they-yar)<br \/>\n&#8211; Irish: cn\u00e1mha an domhain (craavuh un down)<br \/>\n&#8211; Mandarin: diqiu de gutou (dee chee-oh duh goo-toe)<br \/>\n&#8211; Japanese: chikyuu no hone (chee-queue no hoe-nay)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/tearsforearth\/home\/bones-of-earth\/chorus-of-speakers\">Other translations already received<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A composer called Daniel J Hay contacted me today asking for help with a piece he&#8217;s working on entitled Tears For Earth. In the first movement, Bones of Earth, he wants to have a chorus of speakers in counterpoint to the tenor solo repeating the phrase &#8220;bones of earth&#8221; (or &#8220;the bones of the earth&#8221;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}