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Tune of the Day: Duet in F-sharp minor by Köhler

Today's piece is duet No. 10 from the first volume of Ernesto Köhler's Twenty Easy Melodic Progressive Studies.

Tune of the Day: Adagio ma non tanto

Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata in E minor for Flute and continuo, BWV 1034 is in the usual four-movement, slow-fast-slow-fast sonata da chiesa format. The first movement, marked “Adagio ma non tanto” (“Slowly, but not much”), is usually performed at a fairly deliberate pace despite the Composer's admonition.

Tune of the Day: Barrack Hill

This Dorian-mode jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. His source for the tune was accordion player Johnny O'Leary, from the Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border.

George Petrie (1855) had previously identified the melody as “a Munster jig”, and remarked that “it had a peculiar kind of dance”.

Tune of the Day: Study by Karg-Elert

This is the twentieth étude from Sigfried Karg-Elert's 30 Caprices: a “Gradus ad Parnassum” of the modern technique for flute solo.

Tune of the Day: Allegro by Scherer

This is the opening Allegro of a Sonata in G major written for three German flutes by Johann Scherer, a German composer of the 18th century.

Thanks to Joyce Kai for suggesting this piece!

Tune of the Day: Semper Fidelis

It was with “Semper Fidelis” that John Philip Sousa had his first runaway hit, in the process creating what is arguably the prototype for the great American march. Sousa wrote the march in 1888, in response to a request by President Chester A. Arthur for something more appropriate than “Hail to the Chief” for use at official functions. Unfortunately, Arthur died without ever hearing “Semper Fidelis”.

Sousa considered this to be his “most musical” march, and it became the official march of the U.S. Marine Corps, whose motto “Semper Fidelis” is Latin for “Ever Faithful”.

Tune of the Day: The Shady Lane

This variant of the famous “Greensleeves” tune is taken from Chicago Police Captain Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in 1907.