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Greetings folks. A little bit of cross pollination going on today for this interlude. Last Saturday we were looking for female power anthems – songs that inspire and make you want to grab the world by the lapels and give it a good shake. Finding songs by dudes about taking names and kicking ass, was easy. Finding female artists with similar thematic material not so much. This song by Christina Perri was on the list of ‘girl’ power anthems. It is clean and elegant song that speaks fluently to my heart, and speaks volumes of how differently the world is perceived depending on how you were socialized.
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[Verse 1]
I know I can’t take one more step towards you,
Cause all that’s waiting is regret.
And don’t you know I’m not your ghost anymore,
You lost the love I loved the most.
[Pre-Chorus]
I learned to live half alive,
And now you want me one more time…
[Chorus]
And who do you think you are,
Running around leaving scars,
Collecting your jar of hearts,
And tearing love apart?
You’re gonna catch a cold,
From the ice inside your soul.
So don’t come back for me,
Who do you think you are?
[Verse 2]
I hear you’re asking all around,
If I am anywhere to be found.
But I’ve grown too strong,
To ever fall back in your arms.
[Pre-Chorus]
And I’ve learn to live half alive,
And now you want me one more time!
[Chorus]
And who do you think you are,
Running around leaving scars,
Collecting your jar of hearts,
And tearing love apart?
You’re gonna catch a cold,
From the ice inside your soul.
So don’t come back for me,
Who do you think you are?
[Bridge]
Dear, it took so long just to feel alright,
Remember how to put back the light in my eyes.
I wish I had missed the first time that we kissed,
Cause you broke all your promises.
And now you’re back,
You don’t get to get me back!
[Chorus]
And who do you think you are,
Running around leaving scars,
Collecting your jar of heart,
And tearing love apart?
You’re gonna catch a cold,
From the ice inside your soul.
So don’t come back for me,
Don’t come back at all!
[Outro]
And who do you think you are,
Running around leaving scars,
Collecting your jar of hearts,
And tearing love apart?
You’re gonna catch a cold,
From the ice inside your soul.
Don’t come back for me,
Don’t come back at all!
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
Who do you think you are?
I love Mahler No.1. The second movement is such an amazingly happy dance suite. I smile when listening to it.
The second movement is a modified minuet and trio. Mahler replaces the minuet with a Ländler, a 3/4 dance-form that was a precursor to the Austrian waltz. This is a popular structure in Mahler’s other symphonies, as well as Franz Schubert’s. One main theme repeats throughout the Ländler, and it gathers energy towards a hectic finish. The main melody outlines an A major chord: ![\relative c' { \clef treble \time 3/4 \key a \major \partial 4*1 e8-. r | a r r \autoBeamOff cis e, r | a4~ a8 r r e | a r \autoBeamOn a-.[ b-.] cis-.[ d-.] | e4~ e8 }](https://upload.wikimedia.org/score/r/s/rst3jlo8m67lgu7s63viqyr54mub897/rst3jlo8.png)
The trio contains contrasting lyrical material.
Étude Op. 25, No. 11 is a study for developing stamina, dexterity, and technique – essential skills for any concert pianist. It begins with a piano introduction of the main melody. The first theme follows, consisting of tumultuous cascades of semiquaver-tuplets (sixteenth-note-tuplets) and a leaping figure for the left hand in the relative major, C major, which shortly segues into a repetition of the first theme. It finishes with a short development into a fortissimo coda, and ends with one final statement of the theme.
A great piece and fun to sing. :)
The Choir of New College, Oxford, under the direction of Edward Higginbottom, perform the Scottish folk song ‘The Skye Boat Song’, which tells of the escape to safety of Bonnie Prince Charlie to the Isle of Skye. Having been defeated in the Battle of Culloden (the final nail in the coffin of the unsuccessful Jacobite Rising), the so-called ‘lad… born to be king’ fled his pursuers in a small boat, disguised as the serving-maid of a woman called Flora MacDonald.
Though Sir Harold Boulton’s lyrics to an air collected by Annie MacLeod only became ‘The Sky Boat Song’ in 1884, the song quickly became so popular (particularly amongst families with Jacobite leanings or sympathies) that people began (falsely) to recall having heard it sung as small children and to claim that the English text was only a translation of old Gaelic words.
Lyrics:
(Chorus)
Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing,
Onward! the sailors cry;
Carry the lad that’s born to be King
Over the sea to Skye.
Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,
Thunderclaps rend the air;
Baffled, our foes stand by the shore,
Follow they will not dare.
Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep,
Ocean’s a royal bed.
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head.
Many’s the lad fought on that day
Well the Claymore could wield,
When the night came, silently lay
Dead in Culloden’s field.
Burned are their homes; exile and death
Scatter the loyal men;
Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath
Charlie will come again.
The “Sucker Punch Remix” of Björk‘s “Army of Me” is based upon a trip hop production and “repeatedly pummels via the psychedelic vocal delivery and careening, crushing guitars”.
Did you need to darkly-dangerously rock out? This, gentle readers, is your tune.
I wish CBC would make more of these music history videos, they are informative and entertaining. :) Let’s take a closer look at the fabric of Brahms’s famous tune.
When it comes to musical taste, I guess you could say Arb and I are a little… odd? We’ve shared our love of classical and choral music quite a bit, but then we also like the hard stuff. Here is a whole group of young people who seem to feel the same way:
Viva Vox Choir from Belgrade was formed almost ten years ago by a group of high school graduates who, together with their music teacher and conductor, Jasmina Lorin, wanted to continue the wonderful musical cooperation they had in their high school choir. The choir got its current name in 2005, and in 2009 they introduced beatboxing in their performance, which, along with song arrangements written by the members of the choir, formed the unique sound that made them known throughout the globe. The sound of Viva Vox choir has undergone a number of transformations, and today it is characterised by authentic a cappella (voices only) interpretations of pop-rock and alternative music, accompanied by beatbox.
And for the goth in me:
And finally – this doesn’t work quite as well because they have cultured voices and sing very much in tune, but for sheer audacity it takes the cake:
bleatmop
Mystro
Dead Wild Roses 
Your opinions…