Coming in at number 49 in our countdown of The “Hits of the 60’s” (1760’s, that is) is Air on the G String from Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). For more on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_on_the_G_String
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Raindrop Prelude
It’s the next best thing to rain. And it also is song number 48 from the Big Book of Classical Music. This next song is an excerpt from Prelude in D-Flat Major by Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849): For more about the song: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raindrop_Prelude
Number 47
Here is song number forty-seven from the Big Book of Classical Music. It is an excerpt from Symphony No. 2 in C Minor by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): For more about the composer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2(Mahler)
Jerry was right
The composer Robert Schumann did hear an “A” note when he had “Persistent Tinnitus.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann I started working on transcribing this song yesterday, and couldn’t do anything else today because I had to finish it. Song #46 from the Big Book of Classical Music is called Piano Concerto in A Minor by Robert Schumann (1810-1856).(Warning:Continue reading “Jerry was right”
once more with feeling
A while back I posted a song called On Green Dolphin Street. That version wasn’t, how should I put this, very good? It had no right being out in the world. So I re-did it just for you. You know who you are. That reminds me of the time someone asked me if I wasContinue reading “once more with feeling”
Number 43
The latest song from the Countdown of 100 Classical Masterpieces is entitled Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Here is more about Mozart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart
Aquarium
Yesterday I shared a song from Camille Saint-Saens entitled The Swan, from his opera Carnival of the Animals. Today’s entry is called Aquarium, and it is from that same opera. It is number 42 in our summer countdown of classical music.
The Swan
Song Number 41 in our big countdown of Classical Music is called The Swan. It is from The Carnival of the Animals by French Composer Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921). According to galaxymusicnotes.com, Camille Saint-Saëns was widely heralded as a teen prodigy, as he started exhibiting perfect pitch at the age of two. He was also consideredContinue reading “The Swan”
Number 40
Song Number 40 in our summer countdown of classical music is in the books. This is an excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz. According to https://petipasociety.com/the-sleeping-beauty: The Sleeping Beauty Waltz was the first collaboration of Marius Petipa and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Although Tchaikovsky’s first ballet Swan Lake had not been the success he had hoped for, it didContinue reading “Number 40”
More World Music
This song comes from the land of the oompa loompa:
World Music
This song is called Songhai Piece. It comes from Mali, in North Africa: And here is one you should know by now, if you have the right stuff. (It is from a country to the East of Mali. Or West, if you go the long way):
A Raga For You
Like I said up there. This is called Raga Kamaj: And this is a mix of sixteen different Ragas: This one is called Raga Bageshri: According to Wikipedia, a raga or raag (IAST: rāga; also raaga or ragam; literally “coloring, tingeing, dyeing”) is a melodic framework for improvisation akin to a melodic mode in Indian classical music. The rāga is a unique and central feature of theContinue reading “A Raga For You”
