ukulele
Posted on February 17, 2007
Filed Under Music, Saturday Satire |
I have spent the day listening to Bach's Concerto for Ukulele and Chalumeau in B-Flat Major. It is very calming. I often wonder how Bach achieved such balance between the ukulele, the contrabassoon (though he called it merely a "large bassoon"), the oboe da caccia, and the chalumeau. Of all the orchestral instruments, the oboes and bassoons are among the richest in character. And I mourn that the chalumeau has been replaced by the clarinet in modern orchestras. If you have not listened to Bach's Ukulele and Chalumeau in B-Flat Major, you are in luck - I plan to digitally re-create it in "garage band" once I purchase a Mac.
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Wasn’t the ukulele invented in the 1800’s in Hawaii? Call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure Bach had already written his own funeral cantata.
Ok, but I am looking forward to the digital remastery of “concerto for ukulele”… maybe you can model it on one of the “concerto for harpsichord and strings”
Would be nice to hear a fugue too… fugue has been mostly a dead form since Bach.
JAZZ IS THE NEW FUGUE MUSICFIEND CAREFUL WHAT YOU CALL DEAD. FUGUE IS MORE OF A DEVICE THAN A MUSICAL FORM ANYWAY. I WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE WOULD COMMENT ON THIS POST BECAUSE I LOOKED UP UKULELE AND IT IS DEFINITELY NOT BAROQUE PERIOD!
OK, IF YOU ARE REALLY DOING BACH WITH UKULELE I HAVE TO HEAR THIS. I USED TO PLAY UKULELE AND PAN PIPE IN PERU AND BOLIVIA. SEND ME BACH WITH UKULELE AND I WILL DO MOZART’S HORN SYMPHONIES WITH PAN PIPE, I SWEAR.
Like I said I have to buy a Mac first.
I dont know anything about music, but I am a network admin. Does anyone know whos hiring in the PA area?