[The Cries of London]

梁先生

In 1711, Joseph Addison complained:

Milk is generally sold in a note above E-la, and in sounds so exceedingly shrill, that it often sets our teeth on edge.

E-la是蝦米音？


小讀者
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/topic_1/cries_of_london.htm

張華

感想之一：這篇好像談倫敦的叫賣聲，好像許多古老都市都有好聽的叫賣聲，老舍話劇「茶館」特別注重這種聲音。

感想之二：本大學除了有得吃、有得拿(書)，現在又有逐漸明顯的功

能：「翻譯互助會」。值得鼓掌！

hc
這篇似乎受選為著名翻譯文集"倫敦叫賣聲" (香港:牛津大學出版社 等等) 待查

這篇英文我可能高中讀過
不過近20年之後在日本看NHK演 Lafcadio Hearn's Japan 才體會 --當然我們童年鄉下也很精彩 據網路說宋朝都城已很發達



《劉炳善譯文集》：《倫敦的叫賣聲》、《伊利亞隨筆》、《書和畫像》......
倫敦的叫賣聲：英國隨筆選譯. [英]阿狄生等/ 1997 / 三聯書


Cries of London 《倫敦叫賣聲》 17世紀初的作曲家把倫敦商販沿街叫賣的傳統曲調改編而成的輪唱曲。收在《不列顛音樂叢書》中。 這是今天上課的時候老師無意中帶過的，

SACD	The Cries Of London: Hillier / Theatre Of Voices Fretwork

Morning

Joseph Addison, from The Spectator, No. 251

The Spectator, a popular series of periodical essays that appeared daily (except Sundays) in 1711–12 and 1714, was written by Addison and Richard Steele. In addition to influential social and literary criticism, it popularized current philosophical and scientific notions, set standards of taste and manners, and appealed to city readers (and readers who followed city fashions) by providing vivid descriptions of the life of the town.

[The Cries of London]

There is nothing which more astonishes a Foreigner and frights a Country Squire, than the Cries of London. My good Friend, Sir Roger, often declares that he cannot get them out of his Head, or go to sleep for them the first Week that he is in Town. On the contrary, Will. Honeycomb calls them the Ramage de la Ville, >> Ramage de la Ville: Warbling of the town.');" onclick="return overlib('Ramage de la Ville: Warbling of the town.', STICKY, CAPTION, 'Note:');" onmouseout="return nd();" href="javascript:void(0);">note 1 and prefers them to the Sounds of Larks and Nightingales, with all the Musick of the Fields and Woods. * * *

The Cries of London may be divided into Vocal and Instrumental. As for the latter, they are at present under a very great Disorder. A Freeman of London has the Privilege of disturbing a whole Street for an hour together, with the twancking of a Brass Kettle or a Frying-Pan. The Watchman's Thump >> note 2 at Midnight startles us in our Beds, as much as the breaking in of a Thief. * * *

Vocal Cries are of a much larger Extent, and indeed so full of Incongruities and Barbarisms, that we appear a distracted City, to Foreigners, who do not comprehend the Meaning of such Enormous Outcries. Milk is generally sold in a Note above Elah, >> Elah: The highest note of the musical scale.');" onclick="return overlib('Elah: The highest note of the musical scale.', STICKY, CAPTION, 'Note:');" onmouseout="return nd();" href="javascript:void(0);">note 3 and in Sounds so exceedingly shrill, that it often sets our Teeth an edge. The Chimney Sweeper is confined to no certain pitch; he sometimes utters himself in the deepest Base, and sometimes in the lowest Note of the Gamut. The same Observation might be made on the Retailers of Small-cole, not to mention broken Glasses or Brick-dust. * * *

Some of these last-mentioned Musicians are so very loud in the Sale of these trifling Manufactures, that an honest Splenetick Gentleman of my Acquaintance bargained with one of them never to come into the Street where he lived; But what was the effect of this Contract? why, the whole Tribe of Cardmatch-makers which frequent that Quarter, passed by his Door the very next Day, in hopes of being bought off after the same manner.

Images of the Outcast : The Urban Poor in the Cries of London-US-
ISBN:9780813531526 (Paper cover book)
Shesgreen, Sean /Publisher:Rutgers Univ Pr Published 2002/