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I have always heard that campfire stories should always be accompanied by music. To that end, here is a song from the songbook “Original Piano Duets for American Composers.” It is titled Around the Campfire. You may have heard another version if you were here yesterday. And here is another song from the same book, titled Village Festival. I took creative license and named it Festival of Lights. I am not sure why.
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See if you can name that tune. I will give you a hint: The composer was named Ethelbert Nevin. His birthday was on Friday, the same day I posted the first versions of this song. But I didn’t know it at the time. Spooky! I just love learning about music and composers from the late 1800’s. That was an interesting time in music, don’t you agree? I see you are nodding your head. Any time in musical history is interesting if you look…
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It’s time for you to name that tune. Or just listen to it. It’s entirely up to you.
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Here is a song that we all know. Can you Name That Tune?
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This was one of the first songs I learned in the music program at school. It is titled “Gymnopedie No. 1” by Eric Satie. Most versions are slower than this, but since we all have busy schedules I gave it a quicker tempo. Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (May 17, 1866 – July 1, 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at…
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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 are 18 songs altogether, so be sure and check back later to hear the other songs. So far the reception has been tremendous, with downloads in the triple…
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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 a catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was first published in 1950, edited by Wolfgang Schmieder. The catalogue’s second edition appeared in 1990. An abbreviated version…
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Here is another Renaissance classic, called “Munchkins vive nobis,” written by my new favorite artist.
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https://youtu.be/BzlManCoJtA
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This song was written by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and is titled “Hodie Christus.”
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Today eight Pelicans were released to the seashore from an animal rehab center. How do I know this, you ask? I know this because I was there. It was my first pelican related event.
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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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This song is from an Academy Award winning film. I’m pretty sure. In any event, I have been working on it all day and it’s time to get it out into the world. It was written over 100 years ago by Scott Joplin. He was born on November 24, 1868 and he passed away on April 1, 1917. He was an American composer and pianist. He is also known as the “King of Ragtime” because of the fame achieved for his ragtime compositions,…
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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 have one without the udder.
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Continuing along with our study of early 70’s music, here is one I’m sure you’ve heard before. This took a long time for me to transcribe into mp3 format because the sheet music was wrong in a few sections. It turned out to be a great learning experience because I was able to figure out what the wrong notes were, and changed them accordingly.
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If you were around in the 1970’s you might remember that this song was played non-stop on the radio. Back in those days we had four ways to listen to music: A Turntable, an AM/FM Radio, an 8-track player, or a cassette player. This song got lots of airplay back then. Like so many songs by Chicago, this one always uplifts me. Turn it up, real loud!
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First, good morning: And then, good night.
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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)
