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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
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Subject: Re: Old Songs
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Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 18:21:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 15 18:21:28 1984
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References:

First a correction.  That should be:

  This is the symphony, that Schubert wrote and never.
  [Schubert 8th, first movement, contrasting theme.]


There are some other wonderful Music Mnemnonics for themes that I
find amusing, for example:

  What is this, what is this, is it Mozart?  Yes it is, yes it is,
  yes it is.  [Moz 40th symphony, beginning theme]


  Is this by Mozart?  No it's not, it is Bach! [WTC, first book,
  g-minor fugue subject.]


I was at a party in 1962, when two graduate students arrived in a
state of great excitement and announced that they had finally
succeeded in setting one of Bach's fugue subjects to words for the
first time ever.  The words, which fit perfectly:

  Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her he.
  Put her in a pumpkin shell and there he kept here very well.

  (Note: the first line above has a period after "he" because there is
  a short rest at that point in the music.)  [This is an organ fugue
  which I cannot identify, but the subject, all in notes of equal
  length (8th notes?) goes like this, normalized to C-major:]

  efgfefgfefgfefgfe    agaefefdgfgdede


- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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