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Tune of the Day: Dublin Streets

This slip jig was included in the mid-19th-century music manuscript collection of County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman. It first appeared in print in P.M. Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs and R.M. Levey's First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland, both published in 1858. The tune was probably derived from the Scottish jig “A Fig for a Kiss”, which was recorded as early as the mid-18th century.

Tune of the Day: Study in D major by Gariboldi

Today we present the seventh study from Italian composer Giuseppe Gariboldi's Etudes mignonnes (Dainty Studies), Op. 131.

Tune of the Day: Vivace by Telemann

This is the first movement from Georg Philipp Telemann's fifth Canonic Sonata for two flutes. As with all of these sonatas, the two players play the exact same melody, but (in this case) three measures apart.

Tune of the Day: Elite Syncopations

Published in 1902, just three years after “Maple Leaf Rag”, this marvelous display of pianistic prowess shows Scott Joplin's potential for innovation and development. Of course, all ragtime music is rhythmically charged, forward-thrusting and syncopated, but there is a particular bounce to the step of “Elite Syncopations”.

The piece is marked "Not fast", but “fast” in this instance must be seen as a relative term: it is likely that in Joplin's time many pianists were playing his rags at breakneck speeds to show off their skill. It has been widely agreed that the composer's intention was that his pieces were not to be played at outlandish speeds, but in a controlled manner.

“Elite Syncopations” is built, as are all of Joplin's pieces, from several tuneful strands. In the last two sections, we move from the key of F major to the key of B-flat major, never to return.

Tune of the Day: Another Jig Will Do

This is a common slip jig at modern Irish music sessions, after it was popularized by the Boys of the Lough in the 1970s. The earliest appearance of the tune in print is found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection, published in Boston in 1883.

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

This is the eighth study from German flutist and composer Caspar Kummer's 32 Etudes amusantes et instructives, Op. 129, first published in 1858.

Tune of the Day: Allegro by Quantz

This is the opening Allegro of a Flute Duet in G major that the famous German flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz composed in 1759.

Thanks to Deb for suggesting this piece!