Music remembered in music 2: Sentiment and soundscapes around 1900 from Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

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Lodewijk Muns

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Music remembered in music 2: Sentiment and soundscapes around 1900

39 minutes Posted Sep 22, 2024 at 8:21 am.

Intro

Memory, recall, recurrence

Music around 1900

That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune

Herman, Let’s Dance That Beautiful Waltz

The Song That Stole My Heart Away

Ives: Memories

Ives: Central Park in the Dark

Robert Schumann, Fantasie in C op. 17 (piano)*

Irving Berlin, That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune. Collins and Harlan. Victor 16472 (1910) https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-128510/

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Lied ohne Worte op. 62 nr. 6, ‘Frühlingslied’ (piano)*

Ted Snyder, Herman, let's dance that beautiful waltz. Ada Jones. Zonophone 5735 [ca. 1910] https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000256389/Zo_cat_5735-B-Herman_lets_dance_that_beautiful_waltz.

Nelson Kneass, Ben Bolt. John McCormack (1914-15). Naxos 8.111315

Harry von Tilzer, The Song That Stole My Heart Away. Irving Gillette (= Henry Burr). Pathe B.5015

Charles Ives, Memories: B. Rather Sad (piano)*

Charles Ives, Memories: A. Very Pleasant. Julia Sophie Wagner, Steffen Schleiermacher. In The Alley: Songs And Chamber Music MDG 613 2178-22

Charles Ives, Memories: B. Rather Sad. See previous.

Charles Moreland, My mother's old red shawl. Vernon Dalhart, Murray Kellner (violin), Carson Robison (guitar) (1926) Columbia 15062-D

Charles Ives, Central Park in the Dark. James Sinclair, Northern Sinfonia. Naxos 8.559087

Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson, Hello, Ma Baby. 1923 Autopiano Player Piano. Player Piano Classics Vol 1. Carlisle Music Co.

Maurice Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales*

Charles Ives, Frühlingslied (piano, arr. Lodewijk Muns) * **

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About the irresistible effects of Mendelssohn's Spring Song, melodies wafting in from the street, and the nostalgic modernism of Charles Ives. The subject is related to topics discussed in earlier episodes: quotation (7, 8), metamusic (5), and Darling They’re Playing Our Tune (2).

Music fragments:

https://archive.org/details/78_the-song-that-stole-my-heart-away_irving-gillette-h-von-tilzer_gbia0298584a

*Lodewijk Muns, piano

** Ca. 1897. Originally on text by Heinrich Heine (Die blauen Frühlingsaugen), publ. in 114 Songs (1922) with text by William Wordsworth (I travelled among unknown men).

References:

J. P. Burkholder. All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing. New Haven etc.: Yale University Press, 1995.

Ch. E. Ives. Memos. New York: Norton, 1972.

More references in: L. Muns. That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune (blog).

https://lodewijkmuns.nl/2021/01/17/mendelssohn-tune/

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