Name Suggestions - Python Music Package
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    I am working on a general purpose music project in the Python programming language.

    It will be for notating, analyzing, and printing both conventional and Gregorian music (via Lilypond and Gregorio)

    It needs a name....

    Python (the language) is named after Monty Python (the comedy group) and the community is into puns and silly references. I'm into those things, but also, as you know, into churchiness and Latin and all that jazz.

    Names that involve references to snakes, snake music, monty python music, church music, Latin musical terms, musical terms in general, or all of the above are appreciated.


    Suggestions?

    I have thought of...

    Pensato (meaning "thought" in Italian, used as a musical term in 20th C. theory for a note that is written but not played)
    Pungi (the musical instrument favored by Indian snake charmers)
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  • BenBen
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    Serpent, or perhaps PySerpent, if that sort of naming is a thing.

    It's a snake joke, as well as a sacred music and specifically chant joke.

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  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    I can't believe I didn't think of Serpent!

    Sadly, someone is already using it:
    https://pypi.python.org/pypi/serpent/1.15

    I was thinking about Guido, since that is the name of both:
    - The inventor of Python
    - The inventor of staff notation
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    What is the serpent called in other languages? Is it just the same word for "serpent" (the snake)?

    Latin - serpens
    Esperanto - serpento (i like this one)
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    oooh...

    Greek - Ophis

    from whence another unusual instrument name:
    Ophicleide - "keyed serpent" -- which also happens to be the name of an organ stop.

    We might have a winner, but I'm still open to suggestions.
  • bhcordovabhcordova
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    How about 'Holy Grail' as in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'?
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
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    [BL]adder?
    [G]asp?

    Leviathan?

    Nessie ?

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  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    Does it have to be serpentine?
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Does it have to be serpentine?

    No. That's just potentially fun.
  • chonakchonak
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    Pysante: a pun on the musical instruction "pesante" (heavily).

    Or it might have another pronunciation.
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  • tsoapm
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    ‘Pesante’ (lit. ‘heavy’) is also used in many negative everyday senses in Italian: trying, laboured, tiresome… like an unwelcome joke, insomma!

    The self-flagellating monks in Holy Grail chant “Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem” apparently, but I don’t see much comedy mileage in it.

    Antioch (, Holy Hand Grenade of)? (Brother) Maynard?

    Underfoot/Stomp? Loosely inspired by Gen 3:15, Ps 90/91:13, Lk 10:19.
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    I think I'm going with Ophis. Greek word for serpent - the snake and the instrument.
    Also, it sounds like "Office" - so I can say in casual conversation, "yeah, I'm the lead developer for Ophis...." and just let people think what they want to think about that. Plus, the "Divine Office" pun.

    Plus, it comes with a great visual that'll make a great logo.
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    Not the "Full Monty"?
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