“The Entertainer” is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. It was sold first as sheet music, and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. It was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film The Sting by composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch. The Sting […]
Today’s Listening Assignment is Country Gardens by Percy Grainger. “Country Gardens” is an English folk tune collected by Cecil Sharp from the playing of William Kimber and arranged for piano in 1918 by Percy Grainger. The tune and the Grainger arrangement for piano and orchestra is a favorite with school orchestras, and other performances […]
Today, we’ll listen to the Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, of Ludwig van Beethoven. It was written between 1804–1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music, and one of the most frequently played symphonies. As is typical of symphonies in the classical period, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is in four […]
Korobeiniki is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells the story of a meeting between a peddler and a girl, describing their haggling over goods in a veiled metaphor for courtship. Outside Russia, “Korobeiniki” is widely known as the Tetris theme. Piano duet: Orchestral version: For Boomwhackers: Vocal: […]
Summer Camp is where the Home Challenge usually is, with HC right underneath. There are 3 levels of Mission Impossible. Learn mode is available if necessary.
“Morning Mood” is part of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Op. 23 was written in 1875. The melody uses the pentatonic (five note) scale, lending itself to beginning piano books. Orchestra: Music box: Cartoon: Flash mob(!!) Morning Mood is available in Piano Maestro, Piano Pronto Prelude (as Morning Theme) and […]
Johann Sebastian Bach’s towering monument of organ music, with its deep sense of foreboding, will forever be associated with Halloween. Get a free copy of the sheet music at IMSLP or borrow a copy from the O’Connor Music Studio. I have this arranged for organ, piano, duet, 2-piano, simplified… It’s also available in Piano […]
“Ode to Joy” was written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia. A slightly revised version appeared in 1808, changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza. “Ode to Joy” is best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final (fourth) movement […]
It’s wedding season! Today and tomorrow, we’ll be looking at, and listening to, the music most associated with weddings. The “Bridal Chorus” from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner is a march played for the bride’s entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world. The piece was made popular when […]
Today’s piece is slow and easy-going. The name “Largo” itself means slow. Antonin Dvorák wrote this as a part of his Symphony No. 9 in E minor, also known as From the New World, Op. 95, B. 178, or just the New World Symphony. Popularly known as the New World Symphony, it was […]
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