October 4 - Anonymous and Anonymous IV (The Musical Birthday Series)

On some days there are few musicians of any prominence celebrating their birthdays.  Thus, today I'm celebrating that most prolific of composers, Anonymous.

Anonymous (1)

The poets, musicians, and sages

Whose names are forgotten in stages,

Will join hers and hims

Of the great anonyms,

When their names have been lost to the ages.

Anonymous (2)

If you want to be pure and autonomous 

And publish your songs as anonymous,

It gives the impression 

Of passive aggression, 

And could be judged psychically ominous.

Anonymous (3)

The writer of folk songs and jingles

May never encounter the tingles

That come when your name

Achieves popular fame

And your pay is in Ks and not singles.

Anonymous IV 

You may think of Anonymous IV

As tiresome medieval bore,

And yet it’s a fact

That his musical tract

Is a storehouse of Notre Dame lore.


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