Eeny, meeny, miny, moe MGM's "Ars Gratia Artis". The rhyme appears towards the end of 1949 British black comedy, "Kind Hearts and Coronets". The use of the word "nigger" was censored for the American market, being replaced by "sailor". Eeny, meeny, miny, moe "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" — which can be spelled a number of ways — is a children's counting rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is
Ars nova is like an endnote to the entire Middle Ages. Ars nova Ars nova (Latin for new art) refers to a musical style which flourished in France and the Burgundian Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages: more particularly, in the period between the preparation of the "Roman de Fauvel" (1310s) and the death of the composer Guillaume de Machaut in 1377. The term is sometimes used more generally to refer to all European polyphonic music of the 14th century. For instance, "Italian ars nova" is sometimes used to denote the music of Francesco Landini and his compatriots (although Trecento music