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The Westphalia Waltz is an historic Texas waltz by Cotton Collins, a fiddler with the Lone Star Playboys, named after the town of Westphalia, Texas. [2] [3]The Westphalia Waltz melody is derived from a well known Polish tune that goes by several names, among them "Pytala Sie Pani" and "Wszystkie Rybki."
Like most fiddle tunes, "Blackberry Blossom" has an A part and a B part. In Arthur Smith's 1935 version, the A part is in the key of G major, with C and D chords in the second half of the part; the B part introduces an E major chord, making for a rather unusual mood shift.
"Red Wing" is a popular song written in 1907 with music by F.A Mills and lyrics by Thurland Chattaway. Mills adapted the music of the verse from Robert Schumann 's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 Album for the Young , Opus 68.
In Baroque music, G major was regarded as the "key of benediction". [1] Of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas, G major is the home key for 69, or about 12.4%, sonatas. In the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, "G major is often a key of 6 8 chain rhythms", according to Alfred Einstein, [2] although Bach also used the key for some 4
Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-step, and polka. When the fiddle is accompanied by banjo, guitar, mandolin, or other string instruments, the configuration is called a string band. The types of tunes found in old-time fiddling are called "fiddle tunes ...
D Jean Daetwyler (1907–1994) Concerto for viola and orchestra (1979) Jörgen Dafgård (b. 1964) For the Sleeping: Dream Sonata for viola and tape (1997–1998) Frames and Flow, 6 Duets for violin, viola and cello (1988–2000); Nos. 1 and 3 for viola and cello; Nos. 2 and 5 for violin and viola; STIM; Swedish Music Information Centre Roland Dahinden (b. 1962) broken lines for viola and ...
Suite Hébraïque for viola and piano or orchestra (1951) Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Sonata No. 1 in F minor for viola and piano, Op. 120 No. 1 (1894) Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major for viola and piano, Op. 120 No. 2 (1894) Two Songs for voice, viola and piano, Op. 91 (1884) Max Bruch (1838–1920) Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra ...
Clarence Paul Herfurth was the first author of the Tune a Day books, which are used across the English speaking world to teach music. According to A Tune a Day: Trombone or Euphonium (1944), Herfurth was born in 1893, and "began violin lessons at the age of seven and studied in Germany for a year before entering the New England Conservatory of Music in 1911.