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Tune of the Day: Allegro by Platti

Today we propose the second movement of a Sonata for flute and basso continuo in D major, penned by Italian Baroque composer Giovanni Platti around 1743.

Thanks to Doug for suggesting this piece!

Tune of the Day: Terry Heigh Ho the Grinder

This slip jig first appeared in Hime's Collection of Favorite Country Dances for the Present Year 1799, published in Dublin. It was then included in many 19th-century English music manuscripts, often under the title “Tobias the Grinder”.

Tune of the Day: Study in A minor by Gariboldi

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

Tune of the Day: Duet in C major by Hugues

This is the sixth duet from the first volume of La scuola del flauto (The School of the Flute) by Italian composer and arranger Luigi Hugues.

Thanks to Paolo for contributing this piece!

Tune of the Day: Manhattan Beach

John Philip Sousa composed this lively march in 1893 to commemorate the Manhattan Beach Park resort. It is notable for its unique style, using soft clarinet arpeggios to musically mimic the gentle, rolling waves of the ocean lapping against the shore.

Thanks to Iriss for suggesting this piece!

Tune of the Day: Stolta Stad!

“Stolta stad!” is one of Sweden's most famous 18th-century songs, written by the legendary poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman as Fredman's Epistle No. 33. The piece is a musical irony, setting a grand, rigid military march melody against a comedic, chaotic story about working-class citizens taking a rowboat ferry across Stockholm.

Bellman was primarily a master of parody, and rarely composed original melodies from scratch. The tune for “Stolta Stad!” was said by scholar Nils Afzelius to come from the aria “Regardez ces traits” in Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's 1761 opera Le cadi dupé, but this claim has been actively disputed by musicologists such as James Massengale. Comparing the score to Monsigny's aria side-by-side with Bellman's Epistle 33, one finds that the phrasing, rhythm, and melodic contours do not match up cleanly enough to prove an indisputable direct influence.

Tune of the Day: Study in B minor by Kummer

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