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Tune of the Day: La Soliciteuse

Here is another duet from Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's 55 Easy Pieces, Op. 22. This is a light binary-form piece in D major.

Tune of the Day: Maple Leaf Rag

Published in 1899, “Maple Leaf Rag” was the first of Scott Joplin's piano pieces to be issued with his name, and his name only, listed as the composer. It is also one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and the first instrumental piece to sell over one million copies of sheet music.

“Maple Leaf Rag” is in many ways the prototypical Joplin rag, and a large number of the rags he later wrote are mere imitations of it. It is still a favorite of ragtime pianists, and has been described as an “American institution... still in print and still popular”. It also appears in the soundtracks of hundreds of films, cartoons, commercials, and video games.

Tune of the Day: The Yellow Wattle

This jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th strains correspond to the version found in the mid-19th-century manuscript by uilleann piper and collector James Goodman. The first strain, seemingly not replicated in any other versions, is reminiscent of the first strain of O'Neill's “Church Hill”. O'Neill identifies his source as fiddler and patrolman Timothy Dillon, originally from County Kerry, who may have adapted that part and prefixed it to a three-part setting of “The Yellow Wattle”.

Tune of the Day: Study in B minor by Köhler

This étude in B minor is taken from the second book of Twenty Easy Melodic Progressive Studies by Italian composer Ernesto Köhler.

Tune of the Day: Prélude in D major

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was a prolific French composer of the Baroque period. His Opus 22, now known as 55 Easy Pieces in 18 Keys, or 55 leichte Stücke in 18 Tonarten, was first published in Paris in 1728. The Prélude in D major we present today is the very first duet of the collection.

Tune of the Day: Furcht der Geliebten (An Cidli)

This song is based on a poem by Friedrich Klopstock, in which the poet writes about the love of his own life, Margarethe Moller, whom he called Meta and, in poems, Cidli. This poem dates from 1753, the year before he married her.

In 1815 Franz Schubert set the poem to music, and the result is a wonderful fusion of styles and emotions. The main melody of the piece is sensual and loving, while the piano accompaniment is almost hymn-like in its choral progression. Yet both these seemingly contradictory elements fit effortlessly together.

Tune of the Day: The Powers of Punch

This jig appear to be unique to Chicago Police Captain Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in 1907.

In order to fit the range of the concert flute, we have transposed the melody up from G major to C major.

The word ‛punch’, first recorded in English in 1669, derives from a Hindi word, panch, meaning ‛five’, because of its five ingredients: spirits, water, lemon juice, sugar and spices. According to liquor historian David Wondrich, the drink became popular with British seamen who sailed into the tropics. In those times a sailor's beer ration was ten pints per day, but the warm temperatures caused the beer to spoil. As punch had more staying power in those climes, it quickly became a prized substitute.