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Jiř� Srnka Film Film Music Collection
Jiř� Srnka Biography
Another in many respects ground-breaking protagonist of Czech film music was Jiř� Srnka (1907–1982), who worked in film for a very long time, more than forty years. He studied violin and composition at the Prague Conservatory,
then continued composition in the master class of V�tězslav Nov�k and the quarter-tone class of Alois H�ba. He found an important place for his talents initially as a violinist and then as a composer, at the side of Jaroslav Ježek in the orchestra of
the Liberated Theatre. Thanks to this position he also gained his first commission for a film – a short about Czech aviators titled Dejte n�m kř�dla [Give us Wings], for which Srnka wrote the music in just one day. During his career he then created music for more than seventy full-length feature films and for many television dramas and serials. In his work we find extensive symphonic scores, but he had a greater affinity with experimental music and also notched up an impressive number of successful song hits.
During the Second World War under German occupation Czech film followed a strongly nationally orientated line, turning more often (as a result of censorship) to history or to idyllic rural settings. Among the most significant films that Srnka wrote music for in this period we might mention for example the romantic Ohniv� l�to [Fiery Summer] by the directors František Č�p and V�clav Krška or the impressionistic Poh�dka m�je [Fairytale of May], one of the first fruits of Srnka’s long collaboration with the leading director Otakar V�vra. Srnka worked with V�vra on other very successful movies. In the titles Rozina sebranec [Rozina the Bastard], shot during the war but completed deliberately slowly in an effort to avoid the censor with a view to a premiere following liberation, and in the wartime Nezbedn� bakal�ř [The Naughty Bachelor], Srnka established himself as an outstanding composer for films with historical themes, while in V�vra’s eponymous movie adaptation of Karel Čapek’s novel Krakatit, symbolically warning against the nuclear threat, Srnka offers a score that prefigures microtonal and sonoristic experimental musical approaches for the sci-fi genre.
The harshest period of socialist totalitarianism, i.e. after the Communist Party putsch in Czechoslovakia in 1948 and above all the first half of the 1950s, had a very negative effect on Czechoslovak art as a whole. Official art succumbed to ideological dictate. In film we find a predominance of two-dimensional Jiř� Srnka schematic stories full of propagandistic enthusiasm for building communism and the fight against the decadent bourgeois West. While involved in several films of this kind, Srnka also contributed to films of essentially higher quality, such as V�vra’s Něm� barik�da [The Dum Barricade] (1949) about the dramatic events of the Prague Uprising in May 1945 or Kršek’s film adaptation of Fr�ňa Šr�mek’s famous play Měs�c nad řekou [The Moon over the River] (1953). The music for The Moon over the River became one of the best-known of Srnka’s works and the composer reworked it into a suite that was successful on concern podiums. In the 1960s the centre of gravity of Srnka’s work shifted to music for stage, but primarily in collaboration with Otakar V�vra, he produced a number of other very important film scores, for films based on the works of the poet František Hrub�n – Zlat� reneta [The Golden Rennet] (1963) and Romance pro kř�dlovku [Romance for Bugle] (1966) and then for the harrowing historical drama about witch hunting Kladivo na čarodějnice [Hammer for Witches] adapted from the novel by V�clav Kaplick�. In The Golden Rennet in particular Srnka moved the furthest from his earlier more lyrical idioms and his music once again showed a proximity to contemporary trends in avant-garde music, serialism and work with innovative timbres and microtones.
In short, Srnka represented the type of composer who constantly developed and so contributed strikingly to the qualitative progress of Czech film music.
Awards
• National Award (N�rodn� cena) for the film score to Ohniv� l�to (1940)
• State Award (St�tn� cena) for the film score to Něm� barik�da (1949)
• State Award (St�tn� cena) for Film Music (1958)
• State Award II st. (Laure�t st�tn� ceny II. st.) for the film score to Měs�c nad řekou (1954)
• Title "Zasloužil� umělec" (Deserved Artist)
Kladivo na Čarodejnice / The Witch Hunt / Witches' Hammer / Hexenjagd
Czechoslovakia, 1969
01 Canticum Militare (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvjgaFgHkJE) 2:00
Lyrics: Ester Krumbachov� | Performance: Prague Madrigal Singers
02 Feminae 1:11
03 Missa (Otradovic) (https://youtu.be/ZzwvHC5_W4A?t=4m) 1:36
Original Music: Adam Michna z Otradovic | Performance: Prague Madrigal Singers
04 Missa (Cont.) (https://youtu.be/ZzwvHC5_W4A?t=7m12s) 0:52
Original Music: Adam Michna z Otradovic | Performance: Prague Madrigal Singers
05 Canticum Militare (Adventus) 1:17
06 Convivium 0:38
07 L'estro armonico Concerto No. 6, RV 356 (Vivaldi) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DhwnpdcY5I) 2:12
Original Music: Antonio Vivaldi | Performance: Czech Philharmonic
08 Feminae (Ignis) (https://youtu.be/ZzwvHC5_W4A?t=43m45s) / Canticum Militare (Venatus) (https://youtu.be/ZzwvHC5_W4A?t=47m57s) 1:57
09 Canticum Militare (Fuga) 1:54
10 Feminae (Misere) / Epicinium 1:07
Jan Hus
First Part of the Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Revolutionary_Trilogy)
Czechoslovakia, 1954
11 Overture (Prague 1412) (http://www.mediafire.com/file/zwcycrqjhi977hp/11_Jan_Hus_-_Overture_%28Prague_1412%29.mp3) 5:23
12 Funeral Procession 2:03
13 Hussite Choir / Heresy 1:16
14 Departure With No Return 2:02
15 The Execution of Jan Hus / The Successor 2:44
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO) & Cesk� peveck� sbor
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Choirmaster: Jan K�hn
Jan Žižka
Second Part of the Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Revolutionary_Trilogy)
Czechoslovakia, 1955
16 Overture (Year 1419) (http://www.mediafire.com/file/r5tw4x4ckrh2k1b/16_Jan_%C5%BDi%C5%BEka_-_Overture_%28Year_1419%29.mp3) 3:22
17 Pilgrimage 2:57
18 Hungarian Lament 1:49
Performance: Alice Farkašov�
19 Battle of Sudomĕř (https://youtu.be/tMVGUm-J1zQ?t=9m58s) 5:13
20 Victory (https://youtu.be/tMVGUm-J1zQ?t=16m12s) 1:36
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO) & Peveck� sbor Ceskoslovensk�ho rozhlasu
Conducted by František Belf�n
Proti Všem / Against All
Third Part of the Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Revolutionary_Trilogy)
Czechoslovakia, 1957
21 Overture (Year 1420) (http://www.mediafire.com/file/kj7cskp3y6k24hz/21_Proti_V%C5%A1em_-_Overture_%28Year_1420%29.mp3) 2:15
22 Taborite Choir / March to War (http://www.mediafire.com/file/jdq15ophf15xipp/22_Proti_V%C5%A1em_-_Taborite_Choir_-_March_to_War.mp3) 1:31
23 Kutn� Hora 1:09
24 Battle of T�bor 4:33
25 Battle of V�tkov Hill (https://youtu.be/B0GWk-5aF4E?t=8m12s) 6:45
26 Victory (https://youtu.be/B0GWk-5aF4E?t=15m6s) 2:36
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO) & Peveck� sbor AUS-V�ta Nejedl�ho
Conducted by František Belf�n
Rozina sebranec / Rozina, the Love Child / Die Ungeliebte
Czechoslovakia, 1945
27 Overture (Prague 1612) / Convent of Saint Agnes (http://www.mediafire.com/file/ji0hlqlod29x3rl/27_Rozina_sebranec_-_Overture_%28Prague_1612%29_-_Convent_of_Saint_Agnes.mp3) 4:29
28 Nikolo's Ballad 1:12
29 Rozina's Feelings 2:16
30 Drinking Bout 3:50
31 Monastery Under Attack / Wounded Rozina 3:24
32 Salvation 0:40
Nezbedn� Bakal�ř / The Prankful Bachelor
Czechoslovakia, 1946
33 Overture (http://www.mediafire.com/file/wxazeyuxza5rdg3/33_Nezbedn%C3%BD_Bakal%C3%A1%C5%99_-_Overture.mp3) 1:48
34 Co dobr�ho do v�s, ž�ci (What Life You Have, My Poor Pupils) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfe7OCtRK6o) 1:22
Lyrics: František Hrub�n | Performance: Scholae Cantorum Prof. Venhody
35 Noci mil� (Dearest Night) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRmEwlavTAQ) 1:17
Lyrics: Zikmund Winter | Performance: Zdeněk Štěp�nek
36 Vivat bacalarius / Church Bells 1:18
Lyrics: Zikmund Winter | Performance: Scholae Cantorum Prof. Venhody
37 Stala se jest divn� věc (A Miracle Has Happened) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjOO1GMcdU0) 3:45
Lyrics: Zikmund Winter | Performance: Scholae Cantorum Prof. Venhody, Josef Vinkl�ř (Solo)
38 Slyšte, ž�ci, vy žebr�ci (Listen, You Pupils, Beggars) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP3skRmVHEk) 1:15
Lyrics: František Hrub�n | Performance: Scholae Cantorum Prof. Venhody
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by:Otakar Pař�k & Milivoj Uzelac
Stř�brn� v�tr / Silver Wind
Czechoslovakia, 1954
39 Overture (http://www.mediafire.com/file/70sdi7r27tr25ur/39_St%C5%99%C3%ADbrn%C3%BD_v%C3%ADtr_-_Overture.mp3) 2:20
40 A Young Man's Feelings 2:16
41 Minstrel Duo 1:41
Performance: Elemir Saszy
42 Theatre / Helen's Performance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89yrqpr3-_4) 1:21
Performance: Jiřina Šejbalov�
43 Merry-Go-Round (http://www.mediafire.com/file/44pjidenygont5d/43_St%C5%99%C3%ADbrn%C3%BD_v%C3%ADtr_-_Merry-Go-Round.mp3) 1:32
44 The Silver Wind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eDKkVACCdM) 2:48
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Bonus Tracks
45 Rozina sebranec - Nikolo Leaves / Panchart 0:56
46 Nezbedn� Bakal�ř - Qui suaevimus saepe radi / Mischief 0:56
47 Nezbedn� Bakal�ř - Stala se jest divn� věc (Solo) 0:23
48 Nezbedn� Bakal�ř - Noveritis Christicolae 0:31
49 Nezbedn� Bakal�ř - Tavern Musicians / Prankful Dance 2:12
50 Ktož s� bož� bož� bojovn�ci (Hussite Choral) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elskCac9wSI) 1:56
51 Děkov�n� P�nu Kristu po přij�m�n� Velebn� Sv�tosti (Live)
Performance: Liter�tsk� bratrstva Netolice (2009)
52 Stala se jest divn� věc (Live)
Performance: Cancioneta Praga, Jana Sineck� (Solo), Egli Prifti (Piano) (2015)
53 Jin� o vzkř�šen� p�ně (Album Version) 2:35
Performance: Beno Blachut, Dalibor Jedlička, Hana Legerov�, Milada Boubl�kov�, Marie Němcov�, Prague Madrigal Singers, Pro arte antiqua and Instruments & Miroslav Venhoda
Total Time: 1:57:28
Those who're interested may also check out Vol. 2 (Thread 219916) & Vol. 3 (Thread 220862)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/aof5f7jjhhufcjz/Ji%25C5%2599%25C3%25AD_Srnka_Film_Music_Collection _Vol._1_%25282017%2529_%255B%2540Maxwill%255D.rar/file
Enjoy and don't forget to rep/like :)
Jiř� Srnka Biography
Another in many respects ground-breaking protagonist of Czech film music was Jiř� Srnka (1907–1982), who worked in film for a very long time, more than forty years. He studied violin and composition at the Prague Conservatory,
then continued composition in the master class of V�tězslav Nov�k and the quarter-tone class of Alois H�ba. He found an important place for his talents initially as a violinist and then as a composer, at the side of Jaroslav Ježek in the orchestra of
the Liberated Theatre. Thanks to this position he also gained his first commission for a film – a short about Czech aviators titled Dejte n�m kř�dla [Give us Wings], for which Srnka wrote the music in just one day. During his career he then created music for more than seventy full-length feature films and for many television dramas and serials. In his work we find extensive symphonic scores, but he had a greater affinity with experimental music and also notched up an impressive number of successful song hits.
During the Second World War under German occupation Czech film followed a strongly nationally orientated line, turning more often (as a result of censorship) to history or to idyllic rural settings. Among the most significant films that Srnka wrote music for in this period we might mention for example the romantic Ohniv� l�to [Fiery Summer] by the directors František Č�p and V�clav Krška or the impressionistic Poh�dka m�je [Fairytale of May], one of the first fruits of Srnka’s long collaboration with the leading director Otakar V�vra. Srnka worked with V�vra on other very successful movies. In the titles Rozina sebranec [Rozina the Bastard], shot during the war but completed deliberately slowly in an effort to avoid the censor with a view to a premiere following liberation, and in the wartime Nezbedn� bakal�ř [The Naughty Bachelor], Srnka established himself as an outstanding composer for films with historical themes, while in V�vra’s eponymous movie adaptation of Karel Čapek’s novel Krakatit, symbolically warning against the nuclear threat, Srnka offers a score that prefigures microtonal and sonoristic experimental musical approaches for the sci-fi genre.
The harshest period of socialist totalitarianism, i.e. after the Communist Party putsch in Czechoslovakia in 1948 and above all the first half of the 1950s, had a very negative effect on Czechoslovak art as a whole. Official art succumbed to ideological dictate. In film we find a predominance of two-dimensional Jiř� Srnka schematic stories full of propagandistic enthusiasm for building communism and the fight against the decadent bourgeois West. While involved in several films of this kind, Srnka also contributed to films of essentially higher quality, such as V�vra’s Něm� barik�da [The Dum Barricade] (1949) about the dramatic events of the Prague Uprising in May 1945 or Kršek’s film adaptation of Fr�ňa Šr�mek’s famous play Měs�c nad řekou [The Moon over the River] (1953). The music for The Moon over the River became one of the best-known of Srnka’s works and the composer reworked it into a suite that was successful on concern podiums. In the 1960s the centre of gravity of Srnka’s work shifted to music for stage, but primarily in collaboration with Otakar V�vra, he produced a number of other very important film scores, for films based on the works of the poet František Hrub�n – Zlat� reneta [The Golden Rennet] (1963) and Romance pro kř�dlovku [Romance for Bugle] (1966) and then for the harrowing historical drama about witch hunting Kladivo na čarodějnice [Hammer for Witches] adapted from the novel by V�clav Kaplick�. In The Golden Rennet in particular Srnka moved the furthest from his earlier more lyrical idioms and his music once again showed a proximity to contemporary trends in avant-garde music, serialism and work with innovative timbres and microtones.
In short, Srnka represented the type of composer who constantly developed and so contributed strikingly to the qualitative progress of Czech film music.
Awards
• National Award (N�rodn� cena) for the film score to Ohniv� l�to (1940)
• State Award (St�tn� cena) for the film score to Něm� barik�da (1949)
• State Award (St�tn� cena) for Film Music (1958)
• State Award II st. (Laure�t st�tn� ceny II. st.) for the film score to Měs�c nad řekou (1954)
• Title "Zasloužil� umělec" (Deserved Artist)
Kladivo na Čarodejnice / The Witch Hunt / Witches' Hammer / Hexenjagd
Czechoslovakia, 1969
01 Canticum Militare (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvjgaFgHkJE) 2:00
Lyrics: Ester Krumbachov� | Performance: Prague Madrigal Singers
02 Feminae 1:11
03 Missa (Otradovic) (https://youtu.be/ZzwvHC5_W4A?t=4m) 1:36
Original Music: Adam Michna z Otradovic | Performance: Prague Madrigal Singers
04 Missa (Cont.) (https://youtu.be/ZzwvHC5_W4A?t=7m12s) 0:52
Original Music: Adam Michna z Otradovic | Performance: Prague Madrigal Singers
05 Canticum Militare (Adventus) 1:17
06 Convivium 0:38
07 L'estro armonico Concerto No. 6, RV 356 (Vivaldi) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DhwnpdcY5I) 2:12
Original Music: Antonio Vivaldi | Performance: Czech Philharmonic
08 Feminae (Ignis) (https://youtu.be/ZzwvHC5_W4A?t=43m45s) / Canticum Militare (Venatus) (https://youtu.be/ZzwvHC5_W4A?t=47m57s) 1:57
09 Canticum Militare (Fuga) 1:54
10 Feminae (Misere) / Epicinium 1:07
Jan Hus
First Part of the Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Revolutionary_Trilogy)
Czechoslovakia, 1954
11 Overture (Prague 1412) (http://www.mediafire.com/file/zwcycrqjhi977hp/11_Jan_Hus_-_Overture_%28Prague_1412%29.mp3) 5:23
12 Funeral Procession 2:03
13 Hussite Choir / Heresy 1:16
14 Departure With No Return 2:02
15 The Execution of Jan Hus / The Successor 2:44
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO) & Cesk� peveck� sbor
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Choirmaster: Jan K�hn
Jan Žižka
Second Part of the Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Revolutionary_Trilogy)
Czechoslovakia, 1955
16 Overture (Year 1419) (http://www.mediafire.com/file/r5tw4x4ckrh2k1b/16_Jan_%C5%BDi%C5%BEka_-_Overture_%28Year_1419%29.mp3) 3:22
17 Pilgrimage 2:57
18 Hungarian Lament 1:49
Performance: Alice Farkašov�
19 Battle of Sudomĕř (https://youtu.be/tMVGUm-J1zQ?t=9m58s) 5:13
20 Victory (https://youtu.be/tMVGUm-J1zQ?t=16m12s) 1:36
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO) & Peveck� sbor Ceskoslovensk�ho rozhlasu
Conducted by František Belf�n
Proti Všem / Against All
Third Part of the Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Revolutionary_Trilogy)
Czechoslovakia, 1957
21 Overture (Year 1420) (http://www.mediafire.com/file/kj7cskp3y6k24hz/21_Proti_V%C5%A1em_-_Overture_%28Year_1420%29.mp3) 2:15
22 Taborite Choir / March to War (http://www.mediafire.com/file/jdq15ophf15xipp/22_Proti_V%C5%A1em_-_Taborite_Choir_-_March_to_War.mp3) 1:31
23 Kutn� Hora 1:09
24 Battle of T�bor 4:33
25 Battle of V�tkov Hill (https://youtu.be/B0GWk-5aF4E?t=8m12s) 6:45
26 Victory (https://youtu.be/B0GWk-5aF4E?t=15m6s) 2:36
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO) & Peveck� sbor AUS-V�ta Nejedl�ho
Conducted by František Belf�n
Rozina sebranec / Rozina, the Love Child / Die Ungeliebte
Czechoslovakia, 1945
27 Overture (Prague 1612) / Convent of Saint Agnes (http://www.mediafire.com/file/ji0hlqlod29x3rl/27_Rozina_sebranec_-_Overture_%28Prague_1612%29_-_Convent_of_Saint_Agnes.mp3) 4:29
28 Nikolo's Ballad 1:12
29 Rozina's Feelings 2:16
30 Drinking Bout 3:50
31 Monastery Under Attack / Wounded Rozina 3:24
32 Salvation 0:40
Nezbedn� Bakal�ř / The Prankful Bachelor
Czechoslovakia, 1946
33 Overture (http://www.mediafire.com/file/wxazeyuxza5rdg3/33_Nezbedn%C3%BD_Bakal%C3%A1%C5%99_-_Overture.mp3) 1:48
34 Co dobr�ho do v�s, ž�ci (What Life You Have, My Poor Pupils) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfe7OCtRK6o) 1:22
Lyrics: František Hrub�n | Performance: Scholae Cantorum Prof. Venhody
35 Noci mil� (Dearest Night) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRmEwlavTAQ) 1:17
Lyrics: Zikmund Winter | Performance: Zdeněk Štěp�nek
36 Vivat bacalarius / Church Bells 1:18
Lyrics: Zikmund Winter | Performance: Scholae Cantorum Prof. Venhody
37 Stala se jest divn� věc (A Miracle Has Happened) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjOO1GMcdU0) 3:45
Lyrics: Zikmund Winter | Performance: Scholae Cantorum Prof. Venhody, Josef Vinkl�ř (Solo)
38 Slyšte, ž�ci, vy žebr�ci (Listen, You Pupils, Beggars) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP3skRmVHEk) 1:15
Lyrics: František Hrub�n | Performance: Scholae Cantorum Prof. Venhody
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by:Otakar Pař�k & Milivoj Uzelac
Stř�brn� v�tr / Silver Wind
Czechoslovakia, 1954
39 Overture (http://www.mediafire.com/file/70sdi7r27tr25ur/39_St%C5%99%C3%ADbrn%C3%BD_v%C3%ADtr_-_Overture.mp3) 2:20
40 A Young Man's Feelings 2:16
41 Minstrel Duo 1:41
Performance: Elemir Saszy
42 Theatre / Helen's Performance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89yrqpr3-_4) 1:21
Performance: Jiřina Šejbalov�
43 Merry-Go-Round (http://www.mediafire.com/file/44pjidenygont5d/43_St%C5%99%C3%ADbrn%C3%BD_v%C3%ADtr_-_Merry-Go-Round.mp3) 1:32
44 The Silver Wind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eDKkVACCdM) 2:48
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Bonus Tracks
45 Rozina sebranec - Nikolo Leaves / Panchart 0:56
46 Nezbedn� Bakal�ř - Qui suaevimus saepe radi / Mischief 0:56
47 Nezbedn� Bakal�ř - Stala se jest divn� věc (Solo) 0:23
48 Nezbedn� Bakal�ř - Noveritis Christicolae 0:31
49 Nezbedn� Bakal�ř - Tavern Musicians / Prankful Dance 2:12
50 Ktož s� bož� bož� bojovn�ci (Hussite Choral) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elskCac9wSI) 1:56
51 Děkov�n� P�nu Kristu po přij�m�n� Velebn� Sv�tosti (Live)
Performance: Liter�tsk� bratrstva Netolice (2009)
52 Stala se jest divn� věc (Live)
Performance: Cancioneta Praga, Jana Sineck� (Solo), Egli Prifti (Piano) (2015)
53 Jin� o vzkř�šen� p�ně (Album Version) 2:35
Performance: Beno Blachut, Dalibor Jedlička, Hana Legerov�, Milada Boubl�kov�, Marie Němcov�, Prague Madrigal Singers, Pro arte antiqua and Instruments & Miroslav Venhoda
Total Time: 1:57:28
Those who're interested may also check out Vol. 2 (Thread 219916) & Vol. 3 (Thread 220862)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/aof5f7jjhhufcjz/Ji%25C5%2599%25C3%25AD_Srnka_Film_Music_Collection _Vol._1_%25282017%2529_%255B%2540Maxwill%255D.rar/file
Enjoy and don't forget to rep/like :)