Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!wolit From: wolit@rabbit.UUCP (Jan Wolitzky) Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.music.classical Subject: Re: Old Songs (Musical Mnemonics) Message-ID: <3060@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 13:16:38 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.3060 Posted: Thu Aug 16 13:16:38 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Aug-84 01:15:51 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 36 Regarding Tony Robison's piece on musical mnemonics: The New York City Public School system, back in the 1930s or thereabouts, used to teach these mnemonic devices to their students as part of their music appreciation program (this was back when the NYC school system used to teach things). The technique seems to have worked quite well; my in-laws can reel off title and composer (and mnemonic!) of scores (pun intended) of the more "well-known" classical pieces. I'd love to collect any of these that anyone out in net-land may know. Mail them to me, and I'll post the collection if and when it gets large enough. Meanwhile, other samples that come to mind: Morning is dawning, And Peer Gynt is yawning; That's Peer Gynt by Grieg, The Norwiegian composer. (Only in New York does "morning" rhyme with "dawning"!) Or, from the same piece: In the Hall of the Mountain King, Mountain King, Mountain King, In the Hall of the Mountain King, From Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg. How about: Ei-ne Klei-ne Nachtmusik das ist. Writ-ten by Herr Mozart, not by Liszt. You get the idea. Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, ...rabbit!wolit