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Wednesday 9 July 2025

Tune of the Day: March of the Toreadors

 from “Carmen” by Georges Bizet

Probably one of the most invigorating themes in all opera, the dashing “March of the Toreadors” serves as the very first theme of the prelude to Act I. The flamboyant Spanish tune is almost a literal transcription of the festive music announcing the bull-fight in the last Act.

The opera's prelude also introduces some of the most important themes, including the famous “Toreador Song” and an exotic and sinewy chromatic motive that permeates the opera as a musical symbol for both Carmen's character and the insurmountable power of fate. There is an odd story told of this theme, which is said to be of Eastern origin. The legend is that when Satan, according to Mohammedan tradition, was cast from Paradise, he remembered only one strain of the music he had heard there. This was known as the “Devil's Strain”, and Bizet used it with fine symbolic as well as perfect musical fitness.

Categories: Opera excerpts Romantic Show-off pieces Difficulty: intermediate
Tuesday 8 July 2025

Tune of the Day: Yesterday Morning

 Traditional Irish jig

The earliest known appearance of this jig is in Canon James Goodman's mid-19th-century manuscript, under the Irish title “Air maidin a nae bhí camadan sgéil” (“Yesterday morning there was a rigmarole of a tale”). The tune was subsequently included, with very minor modifications, in both Petrie's and O'Neill's early-20th-century collections.

Categories: Jigs Traditional/Folk Difficulty: easy
Monday 7 July 2025

Tune of the Day: Study in F-sharp major by Berbiguier

 from “Eighteen Exercises or Etudes for Flute”

This is the seventeenth étude from 18 exercices pour la flûte traversière by French Romantic composer Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier. Don't get intimidated by all the sharps!

Categories: Etudes Romantic Written for Flute Difficulty: advanced
Sunday 6 July 2025

Tune of the Day: Allegretto by Köhler

 from Forty Progressive Duets for Two Flutes

Here is a nice duet from Volume I of Ernesto Köhler's Forty Progressive Duets. The upper voice is very simple to play, while the lower one features many large intervals in the first half of the piece.

Categories: Romantic Written for Flute Difficulty: easy
Saturday 5 July 2025

Tune of the Day: Maria, Marì

 Italian song by Eduardo Di Capua

Composed in 1899 by Eduardo Di Capua with lyrics by poet Vincenzo Russo, this song was originally entitled “Maria, Marì”, but it eventually came to be known as “Oi Marì” from the first words of its refrain.

The lyrics to this waltz, which are actually in Neapolitan dialect and not in Italian, depict a classical serenade: a window, a girl, and a suitor on the street below.

Open, o window!
Let Maria appear,
As I’m in the middle of the street
Hoping to see her!

I don’t have a moment's peace
I turn my night into day
To be always here
Hoping to talk to her!

Oi Marì, Oi Marì
How much sleep I lose over you!
Let me sleep
Just hugging you!

Categories: Love songs Romantic Serenades Waltzes Difficulty: intermediate
Friday 4 July 2025

Tune of the Day: The Full Moon

 Traditional Irish jig

This lively jig appears to be unique to Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music Of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907.

Categories: Jigs Traditional/Folk Difficulty: intermediate
Thursday 3 July 2025

Tune of the Day: Study in C-sharp minor by Andersen

 from “24 Etudes for Flute”

Here is another étude by Danish flutist Joachim Andersen. This Allegro in C# minor is study No. 10 from his Twenty-Four Etudes for Flute, Op. 33.

Categories: Etudes Romantic Written for Flute Difficulty: intermediate