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Tune of the Day: May Be I Will

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

Tune of the Day: Study in G minor by Köhler

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

Tune of the Day: Duet in F major by Köhler

This is duet No. 4 from the first volume of Twenty Easy Melodic Progressive Studies by Ernesto Köhler. The upper part is very melodic, while the lower part is more of an accompaniment.

Thanks to Bruno for contributing this piece!

Tune of the Day: Salut d'Amour

Elgar finished this piece in July 1888, when he was engaged to be married to Caroline Alice Roberts, and he called it “Liebesgruss” (“Love's Greeting”) because of Miss Roberts' fluency in German. When he returned home to London from a holiday at the house of his friend Dr. Charles Buck, he presented it to her as an engagement present. The dedication was in French: “à Carice”. “Carice” was a combination of his wife-to-be's names Caroline Alice, and was the name to be given to their daughter born two years later.

The work was not published until a year later, and the first editions were for violin and piano, piano solo, cello and piano, and for small orchestra. Few copies were sold until the publisher changed the title to “Salut d’Amour”, and the composer's name as “Ed. Elgar”. The French title, Elgar realized, helped the work to be sold not only in France but in other European countries as well.

Tune of the Day: Portpatrick

The earliest appearance of this jig is in Robert Bremner's A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances, published in London in 1757.

Portpatrick is a coastal village in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland, with a sheltered harbor. It was a ferry port of passengers, postal mail and freight between Ireland and Scotland. At one time it was a destination for couples from Ireland seeking a quick wedding.

According to musician Alison Kinnaird, however, Port simply means a ‛tune’ in harp repertory—in other words, “Patrick's tune”. Musicologist John Purser disagrees, and is of the opinion that the title does refer to the town, and not to an older harp tune.

Tune of the Day: Study in B-flat major by Gariboldi

This is étude No. 13 from Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Gariboldi's collection of 30 Etudes faciles et progressives.

Tune of the Day: L'Enhardie

Today's piece is a lively gavotte in D major, duet No. 3 from Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's 55 Easy Pieces, Op. 22. Its title, “L'Enhardie”, might be translated from French as “the bold, audacious one”.