Never mind "How dry I am", because it gets worse- much worse! from "The
Sound of Music" we have that fine old ear worm atrocity "Doe, a deer...."
1. Handel- Sonata in Bb, HWV 434, 2nd movement, Allegro- the trouble
starts in the 2nd measure.
2. Albert de Rippe- Fantasie #13 (CNRS edition) beginning at measure 47
up until about measure 68, "Brings us back to Do". (I may play it this
Saturday, don't miss it!)
-and no doubt there may be more if we explore all the "Ut re mi" fantasias.
Dan
On 1/23/2014 5:46 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Jan 23, 2014, at 3:01 PM, R. Mattes <[email protected]> wrote:
if you exdend it and go up again
you end up with something often called "Pachelbel-Sequence".
A poster on another list some years ago asserted that Pachelbel’s canon is
based on the Aria del Granduca.
If you look at sequences of four or five notes, you’re going to find all sorts
of correlations. Think twice about concluding there’s a causal connection.
There are only so many combinations of notes, and similarity does not mean
identity, as we’ve had occasion to remind posters who’ve maintained that the
renaissance vihuela and the charango, or the viola da gamba and the guitar, are
the same instrument.
In 1959, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic did a television
broadcast featuring music with themes that started with “How Dry I Am”
(G-C-D-E). It included the second movement of the D major Water Music Suite,
the Moldau, the Merry Widow Waltz, the Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, the slow
movement of Beethoven’s Second Symphony, Brahms’ 1st Piano Concerto, Strauss’
Death and Transfiguration (end), the Nocturne from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Copland’s Appalachian Spring dressing of Simple Gifts, “The
Party’s Over,” the horn solo from Till Eulenspiegel, then gets into themes that
use the same notes in different orders, then gets into the theme in minor: the
finale of the Pathetique sonata, and the the entire last movement of
Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony. He somehow missed the famous quickstep from the
1812 overture.
The show was called “The Infinite Variety of Music.” You can read the script
in his book of the same name, or, if you have 48 minutes and 46 seconds to
kill, listen to it on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRKw8MENoCs
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