Pushing the envelope back when doing so was not such a fashionable undertaking. Hurrah for Tom Lehrer! Filed under: Music Tagged: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, The Vatican Rag, Tom Lehrer
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach, Goldberg Variations (No.26)
Another something that is about a million years away from my playing ability. Woo hoo! Filed under: Music Tagged: Goldberg Variations, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Beethoven, Violin Sonata No.8, 1st Movement.
For many classical music lovers, Beethoven’s eighth violin sonata lives in the long, fiery shadow of the ninth, better known as the “Kreutzer”. This is easy to understand, as the Kreutzer is a prime example of the stormy side of Beethoven—the one many listeners see as his most exciting and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Ballad of Magellan
Yakko: There once was a man, his name was Magellan. A Portuguese skipper, the girls found him cute. He sailed with five ships to find the East Indies Then come back to Spain with a bounty of loot. The Warners: Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, oh, happy Magellan! Starting your journey with hardly a
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Tom Lehrer is a Renaissance Man of the twentieth century. He’s not only a composer, pianist, and singer, who lectures extensively on musical theatre; he’s also a published and teaching mathematician. Mystro is a particular fan of Dr. Lehrer’s work and has performed it on several occasions, when our choir
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2, is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by Liszt, and by far the most famous of the set. It offered the pianist to reveal his exceptional virtuoso skills while providing the listener with an immediate musical appeal. Composed in 1847 and first published by Ricordi
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Mushical Interlude – Aniron
For The Intransigent One. My heart, my love, my life. O mor henion i dhu: Ely siriar, el sila Ai! Aniron Undomiel Tiro! el eria e mor I ‘lir en el luitha ‘uren. Ai! Aniron… ******* From darkness I understand the night dreams flow, a star shines Ah! I desire
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Rivera, Cumba-Quin
We are sadly out of the CBC Signature series but do not despair gentle readers Stephen Malinowski has been translating some fantastic scores into his visualization process: so today we look at Cumba-Quín, by Carlos Rafael Rivera, performed by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Filed under: Music Tagged: Cumba-Quin, Rivera,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – C Major – The Final Key
We’ve reached the summit folks. C major is the final key in the CBC Signatures Series. Thank you to all who have come along for the ride enjoying the music, writing down pieces that caught your ear and generally have a great time listening to wonderful music. The C major
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Featuring the CBC Signature Series – G-sharp Minor: The Crone
G-sharp minor is a minor scale based on G♯, consisting of the pitches G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, E, and F♯. Few symphonies are written in G♯ minor; among them are Nikolai Myaskovsky’s 17th Symphony, Christopher Schlegel’s 5th Symphony, and an abandoned work of juvenilia by Marc Blitzstein. Despite the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Holidy Musical Interlude Part II – Solomon’s Majestic Bellowphone
A second musical interlude on one Friday? This one not from Arb? Something special and wonderful must be happening! If you’re thinking something along these lines, you’ve never been more right in your life. Welcome friends to my very first musical interlude post. Why now? Because it’s the holiday season
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Everything Your Voice Teacher Says NOT to do.
Singing is not about the notes. Singing is about putting words and sound together into a formless, yet structured package that allows you to express a feeling or sentiment. One aspect of making a performance “come to life” is correctly using the text of the song to express the feeling
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Nuages – Debussy
The three movements are: Nuages (“Clouds”) Modéré – Un peu animé – Tempo I – Plus lent – Encore plus lent. Fêtes (“Festivals”) Animé et très rythmé – Un peu plus animé – Modéré (mais toujours très rythmé) – Tempo I – De plus en plus sonore et en serrant
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The CBC Signature Series – B major The Artist
In music theory, B major is a major scale based on B. The pitches B, C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, and A♯ are all part of the B major scale. Its key signature has five sharps. Although B major is usually thought of as a remote key (due to its
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Following the Ninth
Bill Moyers introduces a film that I, very much, want to see. Watch as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony travels the globe and what it means to people and societies. Filed under: Music Tagged: Beethoven, Following the Ninth, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The CBC Signature Series – F Minor: The Fighter.
F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A♭, B♭, C, D♭, and E♭. The harmonic minor raises the E♭ to E♮. Its key signature has four flats (see below: Scales and keys). Its relative major is A-flat major, and its parallel major
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: The CBC Signature Series – G Minor the Contrarian
Many thanks to Paolo Pietropaolo and the CBC for bringing us the Signature Series. G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, and F. For the harmonic minor scale, the F is raised to F♯. Its relative major is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interulde: The CBC Signature Series – B Minor – The Wounded Man
B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, and A. The harmonic minor raises the A to A♯. Its key signature has two sharps Its relative major is D major, and its parallel major is B major. Changes needed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Kyrie from Mozart’s Requiem
The first movement of Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, performed by the Bezdin Ensemble, under the direction of Adina Spire, with a graphical score. At the time of Mozart’s death on 5 December 1791, only the opening movement (Requiem aeternam) was completed in all of the orchestral and vocal parts.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Gotta catch them all, can you distinguish all 20 variations? 🙂 BWV 582/1: Passacaglia The passacaglia is in 3/4 time typical of the form. Bach’s ostinato comprises eight bars, which is unusual but not unheard of: an ostinato of the same length is used, for example, in Johann
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