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The fad was brought about by the increasing availability of audio recordings by way of the player piano and the phonograph; whereas much of Tin Pan Alley's repertoire was sold in the form of sheet music and thus had to be simple enough for an amateur pianist to play, novelty piano brought virtuoso-level performance to the home and to those who ...
"Sarasponda" is a children's nonsense song that has been considered a popular campfire song. It is often described to be a spinning song, that is, a song that would be sung while spinning at the spinning wheel.
Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) is a series of short lyrical piano works by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn written between 1829 and 1845. His sister, Fanny Mendelssohn , and other composers also wrote pieces in the same genre.
A nonsense song is a type of song written mainly for the purpose of entertainment using nonsense syllables at least in the chorus. Such a song generally has a simple melody and a quick (or fairly quick) tempo and repeating sections.
The sheet music for "Dizzy Fingers" by Zez Confrey, one of the most popular of the novelty piano composers. Novelty piano is a genre of piano and novelty music that was popular during the 1920s. A successor to ragtime and an outgrowth of the piano roll music of the 1910s, it can be considered a pianistic cousin of jazz , which appeared around ...
The Echoing Green and Other Songs. The Echoing Green; The Shepherd; Laughing Song; Holy Thursday; The Blossom; A Cradle Song; With texts by Edward Lear. Three Nonsense Songs [19] The Owl and the Pussy-cat; The Table and the Chair; The Duck and the Kangaroo; With texts by Harry Graham. Twenty-one songs from "Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes ...
The song "Swinging the Alphabet" is sung by The Three Stooges in their short film Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938). It is the only full-length song performed by the Stooges in their short films, and the only time they mimed to their own pre-recorded soundtrack. The lyrics use each letter of the alphabet to make a nonsense verse of the song:
Piano Lessons is a 2009 award-winning non-fiction book by Australian classical pianist Anna Goldsworthy. In Piano Lessons , Goldsworthy documents her piano study from a young age under the Russian emigre Eleonora Sivan .