classical music
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Here is a proverb I have found very helpful during times that try us, like the times many of us are going through right now. Proverbs 11:2 says “When pride comes then comes disgrace – but with humility comes wisdom.” With that, here is today’s song:
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Listen to this and sing along:
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Hold it for four seconds. Breathe out for four seconds. Repeat until you are calm. And then watch this. The last section of the first movement is just two chords. The notes alternate between C#Minor, which is the tonic, and C Diminished, which is the vii chord. Isn’t it incredibly simple and perfect? When I’m
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This morning I read about a French Bulldog that was stolen. Please take a look, you may recognize the car that was used to take him: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-28/french-bulldog-theft-woman-atop-car-hood-video This song needs no introduction, if you live on Planet Earth (or on the moon!) And here it is in reverse:
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Here is another happy-go-lucky Chopin song: And here is another “Show Pen” song:
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In celebration of the weekend, here are two more songs. Artwork by Paul Klee
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This song was written way back whenAnd now it’s time to hear it againIt was written in the key of CIt’s another song to you from me and remember trees grow old and so do people in the end we all are feeble.
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This song was finished in Vienna on August 10, 1787, around the time Mozart was working on the second act of his opera Don Giovanni. I wonder what he would think of these versions? Check out this cool cat: I was looking at the download stats for this site, and noticed a song I apparently
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But it is a perfect day to bring you another song. Long time readers will recognize this one. And pretty much everyone else. (Artwork by Paul Klee)
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Do you know the title of this song? Hint: It rhymes with “Polliwog’s Cake Walk.” Here is a remake of an excerpt of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. It was the only piano concerto he wrote, according to my sources. I am not sure which instrumentation I like better. One thing is obvious:
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Here is a song that we all know. Can you Name That Tune?
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Here are some songs from a piano music book titled Piano Literature Volume One. Its $5.50 price has to be one of the best deals around. That’s around 30 cents per song. I posted some of the songs yesterday using an organ, but I think they sound better on a piano. Hence the title. There
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These songs were all written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Minuet in G (BWV 116): Minuet in G (BWV 114): Minuet in G Minor (BWV 115): March in D (BWV 122): Sonatina by Spindler: One of the readers asked what the letters “BWV” represented. The answer is as follows: The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) Bach works catalogue is
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Here are three more songsThey aren’t very longCorrect me if I’m wrongBut the last one needs a gong They were added on to the previous post, if they sound familiar. This song has been downloaded more times than any other from this site:
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And here are some thoughts I thought worth sharing:– Did you know that before I became a vegetarian I was in “Burgers and Acquisitions?” – Do you like ambience? Take an ambien.– I am a guitar player, which means I often fret.– Even thugs sometimes need hugs. – Nipples always come in pairs. You can’t
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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
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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)
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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 did
