Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.music.classical Subject: Re: Old Songs Message-ID: <1058@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 18:21:28 EDT Article-I.D.: eosp1.1058 Posted: Wed Aug 15 18:21:28 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:31:27 EDT Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 38 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:] efgfefgfefgfefgfeagaefefdgfgdede - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison