Thank you~Vicky, that was soothing

In the course of his life as a church musician, Johann Sebastian Bach probably wrote 300 sacred cantatas. That seems like a high number to us -- but consider that his contemporaries Telemann and Graupner composed well over a thousand cantatas each!

In what surviving documents we have, Bach himself rarely uses the Italian term "cantata" to describe these pieces, preferring "concertos," "pieces" or simply "the music" to describe these works for Lutheran church services. It was only in the 19th century, as Bach's music was being collected and catalogued, that the term "cantata" would become the official label for this sizeable chunk of Bach's output.

Most of Bach's cantatas were written for performance in Leipzig, where Bach was expected to provide sacred music for not one, but two churches, each Sunday.

On today's date in 1731, the 27th Sunday after Trinity that year, Bach presented what would become one of his most popular cantatas: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", or "Awake, the voice calls to us." In the catalog of Bach's work compiled long after his death, this is his Cantata No. 140.

The text is based on a parable from the Gospel of St. Matthew recounting the story of the wise and foolish virgins, who are called, ready or not, to participate in a wedding feast. The opening choral melody may have been already familiar to Bach's performers and congregation, but his dramatic setting of it is downright ingenious.

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Two very different types of music Nancy and Mongi and both are great in their own way.    Nancy, your video has lovely, haunting sounds that relax my soul and make me want to be alone with my thoughts.    Mongi, the last video you posted makes me want to go out with friends and enjoy the night.

Here's some tropical nature sounds to relax to.  

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Thank you~Mongi & Vicky

The intimate combination of flute and guitar has proven to be an attractive one for a number of composers -- and if the composer herself plays the flute, so much the better.

Take, for example, a four-movement suite for flute and guitar, entitled "Canyon Echoes," written by the American composer and flutist Katherine Hoover. This music was premiered on today's date in 1991 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis by flutist Susan Morris De Jong and guitarist Jeffrey Van.

Katherine Hoover gave her "Canyon Echoes" a subtitle: "An Apache Folktale."

"This piece," explained Hoover, "was inspired by a book called 'The Flute Player,' a simple and beautifully illustrated retelling of an Apache folktale by Michael Lacapa, It is the story of two young Apaches from different areas of a large canyon. They meet at a Hoop Dance, and dance only with each other. The next day, as the girl works up on the side of the canyon in her father's fields, the boy sits below by a stream and plays his flute for her (flute-playing was a common manner of courtship). She puts a leaf in the stream which flows down to him, so he knows she hears."

More to view:

http://www.papagenapress.com/

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" Crazy " : same, live... sure a matter of taste, but I can´t recall when I last listned to such stuff that put me in real extasy -inside- and I loved when the crowd sang along  "bless my soul " . Prior to that I listned to the song ten times on youtube...Enjoy !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgHioCC3yCo

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sit back, relax and take a listen; you need to choose the right moment though...I for one like it so much. I love the groove; it gets me to sway ´n move...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe500eIK1oA

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No, unfortunately for me it was the school's violin, Nancy.  

This is a sad, yet beautiful song.

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Do you still have the violin, Vicky?

Manuel de Falla y Matheu (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Born in Cadiz.   Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain.

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The violin music is beautiful your video, Nancy...I used to play violin in the 4th grade.   The music and scenery in the video below is lovely, too.

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold

 (May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was a film and romantic music composer.

 Born in Brunn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic).

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Oh my goodness that is sooooo funny Lily!!!    I don't know where you come up with all these things but you keep me rolling!

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Josef Strauss (August 20, 1827 - July 22, 1870) was an Austrian composer.

On today's date in 1853, the Viennese Theatrical News printed this notice: "At the big ball at Unger's Casino Josef Strauss performed his new waltz, entitled 'The First and the Last.' The waltz had to be repeated no less than six times."

Die Ersten und Letzten ('The First and the Last') waltz op. 1 (1853)

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Oh I used to love that song, Marjorie!!!!!  I still do....thanks for sharing....it's a happy song!

This silly little song used to be my fav when I was about 6 yrs. old.  LOL

"How Much is that Doggy in the Window?"

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Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada with his family when he was five years old. At 17, he began playing at coffeehouses in Toronto's Yorkville area and later attended Central Tech as an art student before deciding to become a full-time musician. He is best known in Canada for his Canadian smash hits "The Farmer's Song" and "Down by the Henry Moore", which was about a sculpture in front of Toronto's city hall, where students met in the '60s and early 1970's.

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"Hail to the Chief!"

Once, when someone asked JFK what his favorite song might be, the waggish former president responded: "Well, 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." As most people know, "Hail to the Chief’" is the tune traditionally played to announce presidential arrivals at public events.

What most people don't know is that the composer of the tune was British: one James Sanderson, to be exact. Sanderson was an early 19th century violinist and the conductor of the Surrey Theatre in London. Sanderson wrote incidental music for a stage adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's romantic poem, "The Lady of the Lake," which was published in 1810. The tune we know as "Hail to the Chief" must have been the hit from that London show, as it even made its way to America in short order.

Sanderson's original tune "Wreaths for the Chieftain," with a new text and a new title, "Hail to the Chief," was first sung in Boston in 1815, at a memorial service on Washington's Birthday.

It was on today's date in 1828, however, that the U.S. Marine Band first performed the song for a living President. The occasion was the ground-breaking ceremony for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal attended by President John Quincy Adams. Subsequent First Ladies Julia Tyler and Sara Polk continued the tradition, asking the Marine Band to play "Hail to the Chief" to announce the arrival of their Presidential spouses.

By 1954, the Department of Defense established the tune as the official musical salute to their "Commander in Chief."

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"Detour (There's A Muddy Road Ahead)" is a Western swing ballad written by written by Paul Westmoreland in 1945.

A well-known version of the song was the popular recording by Patti Page in 1951. It was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 5682, and first entered the Billboard chart on August 4, 1951, staying for 16 weeks and peaking at #5

More to view:

http://www.misspattipage.com/

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Ritchie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela; May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

More to view:

http://www.history-of-rock.com/ritchie_valens.htm

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Lloyd-Webber’s long-lived “Cats”

Primitive man probably imitated animal sounds for both practical and religious reasons.  More recently, the Baroque-era composer Heinrich Franz von Biber imitated one particular animal for COMIC effect …

That music from Biber’s “Sonata Representing Animals,” imitated what, in early 20th century slang, is simply “the cat’s meow.”

On today’s date in 1981, “Cats,” a new musical by the British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber opened at the New London Theatre in that city’s fashionable West End. Despite a bomb threat and brief evacuation of the theatre, the premiere of “Cats” was a great success. 8,949 performances later, on the same date in 2002, when the show finally closed, it had long since entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running musical to date.

In London, the show took in 136 million British pounds in ticket sales and was seen by over eight million people. Worldwide, Cats has taken in excess of 2 billion dollars and has been seen by over 50 million people.

Cats has been performed in 11 different languages in over 300 cities in 26 countries. “Memory” has had nearly 53,000 plays on radio and television in the UK alone, and airplays in the USA passed the 1 million mark in 1988 and 2 million in 1998.

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What other song is there being a round like for travelling~thus the Charter Bus sing-a-long was...to Montreal...

B-I-N-G-0

http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Children/bingo.mid

There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.

There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(clap)-I-N-G-O
(clap)-I-N-G-O
(clap)-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.

There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(clap)-(clap)-N-G-O
(clap)-(clap)-N-G-O
(clap)-(clap)-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.

There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-G-O
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-G-O
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.

There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-O
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-O
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-O
And Bingo was his name-o.

There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)
And Bingo was his name-o.

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Enjoy Yourself" is a popular song published in 1948, with music written by Carl Sigman and lyrics by Herb Magidson.

The most popular version of the song, recorded by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, was made on November 27, 1949. The recording was released by Decca Records The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 13, 1950 and lasted 19 weeks on the chart, peaking at #10.

Another recording, by Doris Day, was made on January 13, 1950 and released by Columbia Records.

Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra made a recording on February 2, 1949 which was released by RCA Victor Records

Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

http://www.rvproperty.com/enjoyyourself_theme.htm

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http://www.fromtheheartpostcards.com/midis/candyman.mid

Who can take a sunrise,
Sprinkle it with dew?
Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two…
The candyman, the candyman can,
The candyman can 'cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…

Who can take a rainbow,
Wrap it in a sigh?
Soak it in the sun and make the stra'bry lemon pie
The candyman? The candyman can…
The candyman can 'cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…

The Candyman makes
everything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious.
Talk about your childhood wishes.
You can even eat the dishes!

Who can take tomorrow,
Dip it in a dream?
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream,
The candyman? The Candyman can, the candyman can…
The candyman can 'cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…
And the world tastes good
'cause the candyman thinks it should…

Samuel George Davis, Jr. , better known as Sammy Davis, Jr.

( 1925 –1990)

"The Candy Man" was Sammy Davis, Jr.'s eighth and final foray into the American Top 40, topping the hit parade for three weeks and remaining on the charts for 16 weeks.

he Candy Man" was the first song heard in the children's musical Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a 1971 motion picture directed by Mel Stuart from a script by Roald Dahl, based on his novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Gene Wilder starred as the eccentric owner of a candy factory who devises a scheme to find an honest, loving child to take over his work.

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Oswald Durand (1840 -1906)
was a Haitian poet and politician.

Among his most famous works are Choucoune, a lyrical poem praising the beauty of a Haitian woman, and Chant National, a lyrical historic poem which became as popular as the national anthem.

Written by Oswald Durand in 1883 whereas it was purging a sorrow of imprisonment in a prison of the Cape, Choucoune tells the history of a young man originating in Haiti which meets by chance beautiful young woman, a marabout equipped, with all the attributes of the ideal woman.

Choucoune

http://www.geocities.com/ernsly/choucoune.mid

 Choucoune forms part of the Haitian cultural inheritance forever. The text was put in music by several famous musicians. It was sung by a considerable number Haitian and foreign artists. Whole generations fredonné the text for one yes or one not.

Yellow Bird:

http://www.homestead.com/deenotes/yellowbird.html

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.

Did you lady friend leave the nest again?
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
You can fly away, in the sky away.
Your more lucky than me.

I also had a pretty girl, she's not with me today.
They're all the same those pretty girls.
Take tenderness, then they fly away.
Yellow Bird, yellow bird.

Did you lady friend leave the nest again?
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
You can fly away, in the sky away.
Your more lucky than me.

Wish that I were a yellow bird, I'd fly away with you.
But I am not a yellow bird, So here I sit.
Nothing I can do.
Yellow bird, yellow bird.

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Spaghetti...I love I ,love it I do...

~Did alot of singing with kids ~

Loads of Fun

On Top of Spaghetti

On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball,
When somebody sneezed.

It rolled off the table,
And on to the floor,
And then my poor meatball,
Rolled out of the door.

It rolled in the garden,
And under a bush,
And then my poor meatball,
Was nothing but mush.

The mush was as tasty
As tasty could be,
And then the next summer,
It grew into a tree.

The tree was all covered,
All covered with moss,
And on it grew meatballs,
And tomato sauce.

So if you eat spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
Hold on to your meatball,
Whenever you sneeze.

On Top of Spaghetti is a well-known folk song and children's song written and originally performed by folk singer Tom Glazer in 1963. The song is sung to the tune of On Top Of Old Smoky. The song is essentially the tale of a meatball that was lost when "somebody sneezed". The song discusses what happens to the meatball after it was lost. A group of children sing the chorus in the original recording.

Thomas Zachariah Glazer

 (1914 -  2003)

His greatest commercial success came with the original (and still definitive) recording of the song parody On Top of Spaghetti. Glazer also wrote and sang the eco-conscious title song in the 1966 movie "Namu the Killer Whale" starring Robert Lansing and Lee Meriweather.

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Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum), one of the best-known European mountain flowers, belongs to the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The name comes from German edel (meaning noble) and weiß (meaning white). The scientific name, Leontopodium means "lion's paw", being derived from Greek words leon (lion) and podion (diminutive of pous, foot).

Flowering stalks of edelweiss can grow to a size of 3-20 cm (in cultivation, up to 40 cm). The leaves appear woolly because of the covering of white hairs. The flowers are felted and woolly with white hairs, with characteristic bloom consisting of five to six small yellow flower heads (5 mm) surrounded by leaflets in star form. The flowers are in bloom between July and September.

It is unequally distributed and prefers rocky limestone places at 2000-2900 m altitude. It is not toxic.

Edelweiss is a protected plant in many countries, including Bulgaria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Slovakia (Tatra National Park), Slovenia (since 1898), Austria (since 1886) and Romania (since 1933).

It usually grows in inaccessible places, which is why it is associated in Slovenia with mountaineering. Its white colour is considered in Switzerland a symbol of purity and due to its beauty, it obtained its Romanian name, floarea reginei (Queen's flower).

Edelweiss:

http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Carousal/TyrolerEdelweiss

Edelweiss, Edelweiss,
Every morning you greet me,
Small and white,
Clean and bright,
You look happy to meet me.
Blossom of snow,
May you bloom and grow,
Bloom and grow forever.
Edelweiss, Edelweiss,
Bless my homeland forever.

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This is an oldie...my mom had a 78 record when younger...she sang it for us...when we were kids

Me And My Teddy Bear:

http://www.newbonbon.com/midi-go-round/meandmyteddybr.mid

               Me and My Teddy Bear:

In the house next door right next to mine
a little boy lives there
at Christmmas time dear Santa Claus
brought him a teddy bear.

He loves his little teddy bear
he's with it all day long
and the sweetest thing I've ever heard
is to hear him sing this song.

Me and my teddy bear
have no worries, have no cares
me and my teddy bear
just play and play all day.

I love my teddy bear
he has one eye and has no hair
but I love my teddy bear
we play and play all day.

Every night he's with me
when I climb up the stairs
and by my bed he listens
until I say my prayers.

Oh, me and my teddy bear
have no worries, have no cares
me and my teddy bear
just play and play all day.

Every night he's with me
when I climb up the stairs
and by my bed he listens
until I say my prayers.

Oh, me and my teddy bear
have no worries, have no cares
me and my teddy bear
just play and play all day
just play and play all day.

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My children came home with loads of songs from school~this is one that they taught me....loads of fun...

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/kookaburra.htm

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gum drops he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
Leave some there for me!

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
That's not a monkey that's me

Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail
Gets a boo-boo in his tail
Cry, Kookaburra! Cry, kookaburra!
Oh how life can be!

The "gum drops" that the kookaburra eats in the song are beads
of sap that form on the gum tree (also called a Eucalyptus tree).

It is found throughout eastern Australia, and has been introduced into the south-west corner of Western Australia, Tasmania, Flinders Island, Kangaroo Island.

Click here to hear the sound of the kookaburra.

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 Small boats glide along the international waters and you are very quickly surrounded by dancing dolls, animals and flowers, singing that now almost infamous song, "it's a small world."

Walt Disney originally designed the attraction for the Pepsi-Cola Company to benefit UNICEF at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. When the Fair closed, the attraction was moved to Disneyland where it opened in July 1966.

"it's a small world" is considered a Fantasyland attraction, yet it occupies its own separate building outside of the main Fantasyland area. The building is practically an attraction in and of itself - the facade is a crazy quilt of different shapes and patterns, and incorporates architectural features from a variety of countries such as pagodas and minarets. In the center of the facade is a huge clock, with a smiling face that continuously rocks back and forth. Every 15 minutes the doors below the clock face open and there's a musical "children's march of nations". This is followed by the opening of another pair of doors to reveal a set of blocks that give the current time -- hour and minute.

Back in 1975 a group of us in a School Choir from Canada went to Disneyland, California.  We went to many a great tours and this was one of the songs I do remember....

It's A Small World After All:

http://www.geocities.com/aubtig15/MIDI/small.mid

It's a world of laughter,
A world of tears.
It's a world of hopes,
And a world of fears.
There's so much that we share,
That it's time we're aware,
It's a small world after all.

Chorus:
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small, small world.

There is just one moon,
And one golden sun.
And a smile means,
Friendship to every one.
Though the mountains divide,
And the oceans are wide,
It's a small world after all.

Chorus:
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small, small world.

Robert Sherman 1925

 Richard Sherman 1928

Robert Sherman,  Richard Sherman, and Walt Disney

1964

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