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).
00:00 Intro
00:36 Memory, recall, recurrence
03:56 Music around 1900
05:17 That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune
10:41 Herman, Let’s Dance That Beautiful Waltz
13:16 The Song That Stole My Heart Away
16:24 Ives: Memories
24:21 Ives: Central Park in the Dark
Music fragments:
02:46 Robert Schumann, Fantasie in C op. 17 (piano)*
05:17 Irving Berlin, That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune. Collins and Harlan. Victor 16472 (1910)
07:29 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Lied ohne Worte op. 62 nr. 6, ‘Frühlingslied’ (piano)*
11:27 Ted Snyder, Herman, let’s dance that beautiful waltz. Ada Jones. Zonophone 5735 [ca. 1910].
13:41 Nelson Kneass, Ben Bolt. John McCormack (1914-15). Naxos 8.111315
14:54 Harry von Tilzer, The Song That Stole My Heart Away. Irving Gillette (= Henry Burr). Pathe B.5015
16:24 Charles Ives, Memories: B. Rather Sad (piano)*
19:23 Charles Ives, Memories: A. Very Pleasant. Julia Sophie Wagner, Steffen Schleiermacher. In The Alley: Songs And Chamber Music MDG 613 2178-22
20:17 Charles Ives, Memories: B. Rather Sad. See previous.
23:43 Charles Moreland, My mother’s old red shawl. Vernon Dalhart, Murray Kellner (violin), Carson Robison (guitar) (1926) Columbia 15062-D
25:30 Charles Ives, Central Park in the Dark. James Sinclair, Northern Sinfonia. Naxos 8.559087
26:30 Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson, Hello, Ma Baby. 1923 Autopiano Player Piano. Player Piano Classics Vol 1. Carlisle Music Co.
35:14 Maurice Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales*
37:35 Charles Ives, Frühlingslied (piano, arr. Lodewijk Muns, complete) * **
*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).
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