Update April 11, 2015: I thought I should let people know that I'm still kickin' and am back actively working on chapter 22. I had an incredibly time-consuming house project, and then I took a couple of weekends off to help a friend move. After that, I got sick, and just when I'd recovered from the first illness, I got bronchitis! But I'm now finally making progress on chapter 22. I don't know when it will be finished, but hang in there—it is coming. I definitely have not given up!

At some point I might put some stuff about me in this profile, but for now it's primarily going to serve as the place where I can post links that actually work.

Music for Chapter 17

The advice from the Wild Black Virgin of Johannesburg is from a song titled "Kick Your Own Ass" by the band World Entertainment War. It's on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgrXuQs_U2o&feature=kp

Music for Chapter 21

Tiger Rag by the Original Dixieland Jass Band (and no, “Jass” is not misspelled)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaPeks0H3_s (great piano version by the great Art Tatum)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iimCcAIpznM (equally great vocal version by the Mills Brothers)

Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQulc (sublimely beautiful vocal version by Nat King Cole)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djTpuq6RruI (instrumental version by Lionel Hampton and Oscar Peterson)

Till There was You from The Music Man by Meredith Willson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISxx-UERl6Y (vocal version from the movie, sung by Shirley Jones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_MefL-PD4Y (instrumental version by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOsAsOI9xGY (the Beatles’ version!)

Sure on This Shining Night by Samuel Barber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfSqHPcKJds (a nice tenor version, sung by Kyle Bielfield, and it’s a bonus that the guy looks a teeny tiny bit like Chris Pine—well, OK, not that much really, more like a vague resemblance (i.e. both young males of Western European heritage).)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xWFfNZvpmk (soprano version, sung by Cheryl Studer; also includes The Crucifixion, one of the most extraordinary of Barber's Hermit Songs. Full disclosure: I am not a Christian—or any religion, really—but I love this song anyway because the heartbreakingly beautiful language of the poem is equally beautifully captured by the music. I really wanted to include this link because Ms. Studer's rendition of Sure on This Shining Night is one of my favorites, and the other song came along with it. So it’s included for that reason, but it’s a beautiful piece of music in its own right and beautifully executed here.)

And as a bonus, here are links to some of the other Hermit Songs, also sung by Cheryl Studer. Again, they are included here for the songs themselves—amazing music, wonderfully performed—and not the religious content.

The Monk and his Cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zLGGinaDkw

Promiscuity:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0RaklSMLj8

St. Ita’s Vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HQ0lE7ICls

Desire for Hermitage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ylpPoqEMU (possibly the most hauntingly lovely of all the Hermit Songs)

Music and Sources for Chapter 22

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"Sure on This Shining Night": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfSqHPcKJds the same lovely tenor version as in chapter 21, sung by Kyle Bielfield, accompanied by Laclan Glen on piano, on the album Stopping By.

"Ah Robin, Gentle Robin": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdCUyZ6PeF0 luminously performed by Vox Luminis (Daivd Munderloh, Philippe Froeliger, Olivier Berten, and Robert Buckland). Despite that four people are singing in this version, it's really just for three voices: the top line is sung by two different people to simulate the dialog between the two men.

"Sumer is Icumen in": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMCA9nYnLWo nice, traditional version by the Hilliard Ensemble from their album Sumer is Icumen in: Medieval English Songs.

"Dona Nobis Pacem": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fhJ6XrZ4jg stunningly beautiful version by Julie Gaulke.

"Music Alone Shall Live": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNreAWbtSDw Julie Gaulke multitrack

And here are sources and links for everything else, including the songs only talked about, in the order in which they appear in the story:

The English version of Wikipedia: the source for lots of stuff

The Vulcan Language Dictionary:

The interview with Viola Smith:

"The Daisies": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0GcwZl4geU by Samuel Barber, sung by Thomas Hampson with John Browning on piano

“Bist du bei mir": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZaJLvbue3Y by Stölzel /Bach, with Klaus Mertens, baritone and Ton Koopman, organ

"On The Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTpvAIwiH6I movie clip that sets the scene for the song, which starts just after one minute in, with Bill Shirley singing for Jeremy Brett as Freddie Eynsford-Hill.

"You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1izigJX1pxI SPOILER ALERT--movie clip, start at about 1:11 in if you don't want a spoiler for some of the plot; first iteration of the song, where Cousin Nettie (Claramae Turner) sings it to Julie Jordan (Shirley Jones).

A Trick of the Tail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJIVuinJlsU Re-mastered album; "Mad Man Moon" starts at 18:55 in (the fourth song). Jim knows the first three songs on the album, "Dance on a Volcano," "Entangled," and "The Squonk," well enough to sing them.

Songs from The First Booke of Ayers by John Dowland

"Come Again, Sweet Love doth Now Invite": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kylm-52yNPQ Fernando Guimarães, tenor, Hugo Sanches, lute

"Awake Sweet Love, Thou art Returned": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ten1_5vyyFE Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor and Jakob Lindberg, lute, from the album First Booke of Songs or Ayers

"Can She Excuse My Wrongs?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qzOIjacnlc Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor and Jakob Lindberg, lute, from the album First Booke of Songs or Ayers

"His Golden Locks": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6tfQk6gR8 Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor and Jakob Lindberg, lute, from the album First Booke of Songs or Ayers

English-Navajo dictionary:

Mu'gahv's rounds

"Row, Row, Row Your Boat": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr8s-K_TPCU Watch Kirk, Spock, and McCoy sing the children's classic, with Spock also accompanying on Vulcan lyre!

"Scotland's Burning": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT-H1bvsj_w done by a group of people having way too much fun!

"What a Queer Bird the Frog Are": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHwwJkKp7Oo charming electronic version

(The link for "Music Alone Shall Live" is in the group of songs they perform.)

Goethe Society of North America page on the misattributed Faust couplet:

Beastie Boys

"Sabotage": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE by the Beastie Boys from Ill Communication

"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk by the Beastie Boys from License to Ill

Nirvana

“Smells Like Teen Spirit:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg by Nirvana from Nevermind

"Heart-Shaped Box": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJr-iFh1OZk by Nirvana from In Utero

Gang of Four

“It’s Not Made by Great Men”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4MRs-fYRlI by The Gang of Four from Entertainment!

"Muscle for Brains": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTzpOBMtkTs from Songs of the Free

Adrien Belew Power Trio

"Dinosaur": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMOkaikAiEs by Adrian Belew Power Trio, video of a live performance on the German TV show, Rockpalast.

"Three of a Perfect Pair": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V-2stZe_kM Adrian Belew Power Trio, same source as the song above

Nigel Stanford

"CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs by Nigel Stanford from his album Solar Echoes

"Crystal Skies 4K": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3xkHmC-KQE by Nigel Stanford from the movie TimeScapes by Tim Lowe

Boston Camerata

The Boston Camerata home page:

“Riu, Riu, Chiu”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ke6hJ78iQc by the Boston Camerata from their album A Renaissance Christmas

“Fas et nefas ambulant”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_wEtdNWY78 by Boston Camerata from their album Carmina Burana

The Center for Early Music at New York University home page:

“Lirim Bililirum”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Ml92xPWm0 by Petrucci, sung by the New York Pro Musica, from their album Petrucci, First Printer of Music.

“Es ist ein Ros entsprungen”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0JYOBre7Y harmonization by Michael Praetorius, performed by Chanticleer

Missa sine nomine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgZXvg5Tsrw by Palestrina, sung by the choir Koorproject Rotterdam, conducted by Maarten Michielsen

Except from Bleak House dealing with Rev. Chadband: