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Post by moonstone on Aug 21, 2009 19:57:36 GMT -5
Here's a REAL cake ... praline ... with ice cream. I apologize if we've had this before.
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Post by Fairweather on Aug 21, 2009 19:58:45 GMT -5
Moon, I think you've mentioned having a great love for this piece: Pachelbel's Canon in D. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLckThis piece contains one of the few actual technical things I know about music: it's a form called canonic variations on a ground bass. The bass viol repeats the same eight notes throughout: B, F sharp, G, D, E, B, E, F sharp, forming the "ground" for the airy long lines that float above it. Was that BRASS I heard at the end of that? Possibly. I didn't get that far downloading. But there is brass in a good many baroque pieces. If I remember right, the reason there's not much, if any, in MESSIAH was because Handel's orchestra in Dublin didn't have a brass section.
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Post by Fairweather on Aug 21, 2009 19:59:28 GMT -5
Here's a REAL cake ... praline ... with ice cream. I apologize if we've had this before. Doesn't matter if we've had it before. Spork, please.
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Post by moonstone on Aug 21, 2009 19:59:38 GMT -5
I'll bet that's one of the only things you know. But it's VERY nice. And, yes, it's actually one of my VERY favorite pieces of music. Must be the mathematics. Honey, I'm serious. I know what a ground bass is, and I know that long shivery series of notes that Ferrante and Teicher ran down the keyboard in nearly every one of their recordings is called a glissando, and I know that, when you sing or play in a minor key but the piece ends on a major chord (by raising one note a half-step, I think) it's called a Picardy third. And THAT is literally the extent of my technical knowledge of music. With me, it's more heart and soul than intellect. Oh, pish, Fair. Even I can play Heart and Soul.
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Post by pattycake on Aug 21, 2009 19:59:39 GMT -5
Here's a REAL cake ... praline ... with ice cream. I apologize if we've had this before. Yum!!
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Post by pattycake on Aug 21, 2009 20:00:13 GMT -5
Here's a REAL cake ... praline ... with ice cream. I apologize if we've had this before. Yum
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Post by moonstone on Aug 21, 2009 20:00:36 GMT -5
My apologies. How COULD I forget?
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Post by Fairweather on Aug 21, 2009 20:03:44 GMT -5
My apologies. How COULD I forget? Well, I could've dealt with the cake with my fingers, but the ice cream? Not so much.
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Post by Fairweather on Aug 21, 2009 20:08:20 GMT -5
Honey, I'm serious. I know what a ground bass is, and I know that long shivery series of notes that Ferrante and Teicher ran down the keyboard in nearly every one of their recordings is called a glissando, and I know that, when you sing or play in a minor key but the piece ends on a major chord (by raising one note a half-step, I think) it's called a Picardy third. And THAT is literally the extent of my technical knowledge of music. With me, it's more heart and soul than intellect. Oh, pish, Fair. Even I can play Heart and Soul.
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Post by moonstone on Aug 21, 2009 20:09:11 GMT -5
My apologies. How COULD I forget? Well, I could've dealt with the cake with my fingers, but the ice cream? Not so much. I wonder which came first ... ?
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Post by Fairweather on Aug 21, 2009 20:16:08 GMT -5
Hey, here's a piece I'd heard OF, but never actually heard before: the Late (like WAY late) Baroque composer and violinist Giuseppe Tartini. Its actual title is Sonata in G minor; it's better known, however, as "The Devil's Trill." www.youtube.com/watch?v=YonqEbar8cMHere played by Itzhak Perlman. The pic is explained by the claim--although I think the story comes from way later than Tartini actually lived--that he dreamed he saw and heard the devil playing this music at the foot of his bed, and tried to reproduce what he heard in the dream when he woke up. Tartini is also thought to be the first great violinist to use a Strad as his primary instrument.
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Post by pattycake on Aug 21, 2009 20:17:37 GMT -5
Well Moon & Fair-thanks for the great music, food & company. time for my nightly call to check on my Mom. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. See you next week!
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Post by Fairweather on Aug 21, 2009 20:24:50 GMT -5
Night, Patty. Please keep us updated about your mom. Have a good weekend. Love & hugs--
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Post by Fairweather on Aug 21, 2009 20:30:30 GMT -5
Hey, Moon, I think I'll finish downloading the Tartini and play it back, maybe post it at Facebook, then call it a night. Hope you'll be able to have some time over the weekend of not having to work as you have been the past few days. Hang in there. Love & hugs--:*)
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Post by moonstone on Aug 21, 2009 20:31:32 GMT -5
Hey, Moon, I think I'll finish downloading the Tartini and play it back, maybe post it at Facebook, then call it a night. Hope you'll be able to have some time over the weekend of not having to work as you have been the past few days. Hang in there. Love & hugs--:*) Thanks, Fair. You have a great weekend, too. Love and hugs ~
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