(I'm so glad I found this when I did.)
This Halloween night, I give you:
Der Erlkönig
performed by Anderson and Roe
set in a (haunted) Steinway factory.
HANDS DOWN the best "classical music"-video I've ever seen.
Ooh, I've got the shivers!
This comes from their soon-to-be-released album on the Steinway label - check it out.
(via collabpianoblog)
Monday, October 31, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Pioneer To The Falls
Growing up in Minnesota, I claimed Laura Ingalls Wilder as one of us. You know when she takes maple sugar and pours it in shapes on the snow and it freezes into candy? That is a Minnesota Elementary School Staple.
In any case, this book finds all of the references she makes to specific musical pieces throughout all the books - and it tracks them down - and it assembles them in one place. 127 songs! from children's songs to theater songs to parlor songs.
I was already predisposed to like MUSA - a musicological publication dedicated to publishing hard-to-find works from every cross-section of American music? - but add in this little interdisciplinary twist and now I'm practically ready to start an Official Fanclub.
It's $240 on Amazon, but GoogleBooks has your Ingalls Wilder fix.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Take It All Away
The Strauss-man used to live in this wedding cake. I mean: house! He used to live in this house. ("Villa" if we're being pedantic.)
A wonderful flickr stream with pictures of the inside.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice
Yesterday I discovered (well - "discovered") a poem
From the 14th century
In Middle English
Satirizing Guidonian notation.
It is my hero.
Let me pique your interest:
Un-comly in cloystre. i coure ful of care
I loke as a lurdeyn. and listne til my lare,
The song of the cesolfa. dos me syken sare,
And sitte stotiand on a song. a moneth and mare.
I ga gowlende a-bowte. al so dos a goke.
[Uncomely in cloister I cower full of care,
I look like a lout, and listen to my lesson;
The song of the C Sol Fa causes me to sigh sore,
And I sit stuttering o'er a song a month and more.
I go staring about like a gawky.]
NO WAIT this post isn't over yet!
If you would like to read the rest of the poem (plus a translation) about our new friend Walter (who has trouble singing on sight), you should click on this link - which will take you to a twenty-first century scan of a nineteenth century printing of the fourteenth century poem included in a publication called The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 27. taDA! All of the Musica Practica students are pleased by this transhistorical urge to complain about music theory.
From the 14th century
In Middle English
Satirizing Guidonian notation.
It is my hero.
Let me pique your interest:
Un-comly in cloystre. i coure ful of care
I loke as a lurdeyn. and listne til my lare,
The song of the cesolfa. dos me syken sare,
And sitte stotiand on a song. a moneth and mare.
I ga gowlende a-bowte. al so dos a goke.
[Uncomely in cloister I cower full of care,
I look like a lout, and listen to my lesson;
The song of the C Sol Fa causes me to sigh sore,
And I sit stuttering o'er a song a month and more.
I go staring about like a gawky.]
NO WAIT this post isn't over yet!
If you would like to read the rest of the poem (plus a translation) about our new friend Walter (who has trouble singing on sight), you should click on this link - which will take you to a twenty-first century scan of a nineteenth century printing of the fourteenth century poem included in a publication called The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 27. taDA! All of the Musica Practica students are pleased by this transhistorical urge to complain about music theory.
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