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Tune of the Day: Waves of the Danube

This waltz was composed by Romanian military band leader and composer Iosif Ivanovici, and is one of the most famous Romanian tunes in the world. The piece was first published in Bucharest in 1880; a few years later, composer Emile Waldteufel made an orchestration of the song, which was performed for the first time at the 1889 Paris Exposition, and took the audience by storm.

In the United States, “Waves of the Danube” became known only half a century later, when Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin published it in 1946 under the name of “The Anniversary Song” (“Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed”). Recorded by Al Jolson, the song first reached the Billboard magazine charts in February 1947 and lasted 14 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2.

Tune of the Day: The Drogheda Weavers

This lively jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. In his 1913 book Irish Minstrels and Musicians, O'Neill remarks that there was a special dance performed to this tune.

Drogheda is a Gaelic word for “bridge by a ford”, and is the name of a port town in County Louth, about 30 miles north of Dublin by the River Boyne.

Tune of the Day: Teasing

This étude is taken from Ernesto Köhler's 25 Romantic Studies, Op. 66. Make sure not to insist on the eighth-notes that come after a triplet, and try to keep the grace notes as short as possible.

Thanks to Shaoyi for suggesting this piece!

Tune of the Day: Largo by Telemann

This is the first movement from the fourth of Telemann's Sonates sans Basse à deux Flutes traverses, ou à deux Violons, ou à deux Flutes à bec, or “Sonatas without Bass for Two Transverse Flutes, or Two Violins, or Two Recorders”.

Thanks to Raquel for suggesting this piece!

Tune of the Day: Si un jour

This tune was originally composed by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi for the overture to his opera La Forza del Destino (“The Force of Destiny”), which premiered in 1862. In 1986, the theme was rearranged by Jean-Claude Petit for use in the French historical drama film Jean de Florette, which brought it to a huge audience.

Although both the original opera version and the film version were purely instrumental, lyrics were later added, giving birth to the song “Si un jour” (“If one day”). One of the best recent recordings of this piece is by the British soprano Natasha Marsh on her 2007 album Amour.

Tune of the Day: The Market Girl

This jig is first found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection, published in Boston in 1883, in which the composition is attributed to one J. Sullivan.

Tune of the Day: Study in A major by Gariboldi

This is étude No. 14 from Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Gariboldi's collection of 30 Etudes faciles et progressives.