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Thursday, 16 October 2014
When It’s Apple Blossom Time in Normandy
Words and Music by
Mellow Gifford and Trevor
Copyright 1912 Francis Day & Hunter (Jerome H Remick & Co.)
When It’s Apple Blossom Time in Normandy Lyrics
On a farm in Normandy,
There resided Rose Marie,
She was the pride of the country side,
Fair as a maid could be.
There resided Rose Marie,
She was the pride of the country side,
Fair as a maid could be.
Came a lover bold one day,
When a most persuasive lay,
Tho’ she was grieving, when he was leaving,
He consol’d her in this way.
When a most persuasive lay,
Tho’ she was grieving, when he was leaving,
He consol’d her in this way.
Chorus
When it’s apple blossom time in Normandy!
I want to be in Normandy,
By that dear old wishing well,
With you, Marie!
I want to be in Normandy,
By that dear old wishing well,
With you, Marie!
When it’s apple blossom time in Normany,
I’m coming back to woo,
And the spring will bring a wedding ring,
Little sweetheart to you!
I’m coming back to woo,
And the spring will bring a wedding ring,
Little sweetheart to you!
Second Verse
Said Marie “It’s clear to me,
Tho’ sincere you seem to be,
I am afraid of the promise made;
You may not come back to me.
Tho’ sincere you seem to be,
I am afraid of the promise made;
You may not come back to me.
By the wishing well today,
I shall wish that you will stay”
Said he despairing, “Love, I’m declaring,
I’m in earnest, when I say.
I shall wish that you will stay”
Said he despairing, “Love, I’m declaring,
I’m in earnest, when I say.
Third Verse
Apple blossom time soon came,
Rose Marie then chang’d her name,
For with the spring he had brought the ring,
His loving bride to claim.
Rose Marie then chang’d her name,
For with the spring he had brought the ring,
His loving bride to claim.
By the wishing well they stray,
Happiness is theirs today,
‘Mid blossoms falling, he is recalling,
What he fondly used to say.
Happiness is theirs today,
‘Mid blossoms falling, he is recalling,
What he fondly used to say.
My Little Persian Rose
Music by Anatol Friedland
Lyrics by Edgar Allan Woolf
Copyright 1912 Jerome H Remick & Co.
My Little Persian Rose Lyrics
I’ve seen flowers rare growing ev’ry where,
But I’ve never seen a rose like you.
From your haunt if I could tear you right upon my heart I’d wear you
And no one could every share you, I would be so true.
But I’ve never seen a rose like you.
From your haunt if I could tear you right upon my heart I’d wear you
And no one could every share you, I would be so true.
But roses are like love and they fade as fast
With all the storms that blow, love can’t ever last.
I’ll shield you from all harms I’m made about your charms
I’ll hold you in my arms ‘till all danger’s passed.
With all the storms that blow, love can’t ever last.
I’ll shield you from all harms I’m made about your charms
I’ll hold you in my arms ‘till all danger’s passed.
Refrain
My little Persian Rose,
Nobody knows how I love you
Oh pretty flower,
Here in your bower,
With love I’ll shower you ev’ry hour
A garden just for two I’m sure will do
For me and you
Dearie, I’m wild about you,
Can’t live without you,
My little Persian Rose.
Nobody knows how I love you
Oh pretty flower,
Here in your bower,
With love I’ll shower you ev’ry hour
A garden just for two I’m sure will do
For me and you
Dearie, I’m wild about you,
Can’t live without you,
My little Persian Rose.
Second Verse
When the fall draws near and the world looks drear,
And the roses start to droop and fade,
I will wrap you up completely
In my loving arms so neatly that you’ll keep on blooming sweetly
So don’t be afraid
And the roses start to droop and fade,
I will wrap you up completely
In my loving arms so neatly that you’ll keep on blooming sweetly
So don’t be afraid
When winter comes along with its frost and snows,
And an icy blanket then o’er the world it throws,
Little “Bride Rose” have no fear,
For the spring will then be near
And an icy blanket then o’er the world it throws,
Little “Bride Rose” have no fear,
For the spring will then be near
To bring rosebuds, dear little Persian Rose.
Roses Bring Dreams of You
Music and Words by Herbert Ingraham
Copyright 1907 Maurice Shapiro
Roses Bring Dreams of You Lyrics
Alone I sit this summer morn,
The roses all in bloom,
Bring mem’ries of the golden past,
That faded all too soon.
The roses all in bloom,
Bring mem’ries of the golden past,
That faded all too soon.
I pluck the roses from their stems,
Their petals wet with dew,
I think of days in years gone by,
When I loved only you.
Their petals wet with dew,
I think of days in years gone by,
When I loved only you.
Refrain
Roses, roses, roses bring mem’ries of you, dear,
Mem’ries of love’s sweetest hours
Telling our love to the flowers,
Roses, roses, your love was like the roses,
Fresh for a day but they faded away;
Mem’ries of love’s sweetest hours
Telling our love to the flowers,
Roses, roses, your love was like the roses,
Fresh for a day but they faded away;
Red roses bring dreams of you.
Second Verse
I’ve roamed the world alone since then,
That day you proved untrue,
But I’ve been, Oh! So lonesome, dear,
For just one word from you.
That day you proved untrue,
But I’ve been, Oh! So lonesome, dear,
For just one word from you.
‘Twas as you willed, you broke the vows,
I bade you go, and yet
I’ve tried to tear you from my heart,
And still I can’t forget.
I bade you go, and yet
I’ve tried to tear you from my heart,
And still I can’t forget.
How Music Began
taken from James Francis Cooke
So far as our records go all of the people who lived long, long ago before the time of the birth of Christ showed a love for music. We are told that even among the savages of today there is always found some attempt to sing or to make some manner of musical sounds.
Music seems to be a part of man’s nature, by which he expresses thoughts he would be unable to express through words, gestures or by means of writing, and the arts of painting, sculpture, etc. The Chinese claim that music commenced in their country 3000 years before the birth of Christ. Unfortunately many records of the music of the older nations in the Far East have been lost, and out knowledge comes, for the most part, from carvings on monuments, which show that in India, Arabia, Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, Persia and among the Hebrews both instrumental and vocal music was known.
These carvings show wonderful pictures of the first musical instruments, which are particularly remarkable because our modern instruments of the harp, violin, guitar and drum families are much the same in principle. Here are pictures of some of the instruments used. Note how they resemble modern instruments:
Ancient Greek instruments
Ancient Greek Forms of the Harp, Drum, Flute and Castanets
Greek harps
Some very old forms of the Harp of Ancient Egypt
Performing on the harp
Performing on the Harp, from a carving on the tomb of an Egyptian King
Drum and zither
An old form of the drum, Ancient Hebrew Zither
Egyptian harp
Very old form of the Egyptian Harp, resembling our modern violin
The first music of a nation or people was probably vocal music and then the natural desire to tap time regularly (rhythm) led to the making of instruments of wood, stone, metal, skin, or clay for that purpose. Then, in order to have a system, scales were discovered, and from these foundations the musical systems of all nations have sprung. The scales differed greatly. The Chinese, for instance, had a scale known to us as the “pent-a-tonic”, or five-toned scale, which sounded very much like this:
To each of these notes they gave an odd name, thus: “emperor”, “prime minister”, “subject people”, “state affairs”, and “picture of the universe”. Very strangely the five-toned scale was used by the olden time musicians of Ireland and Scotland.
The Hindus divided the octave into very small parts, and had, it is said, 36 scales, although in their writings they speak of as many as 1600 scales. What if one had to practice as many scales as that instead of the 24 of which our own musical system is composed?
It was, however, among the wonderful Greeks, who lived before the birth of Christ, that the foundations of our own kind of music were really laid. With them poetry, art and culture were looked upon as real necessities, and then union of poetry with music made the study of the art of music one of great importance. At the performance of the famous Greek dramas, which were given in enormous open air theatres, and attended by thousands, music was continually used and thus the people became familiar with it. One famous philosopher, Ter-pan-der (born about B.C. 676) is said to have added three strings to the “lyre” or Grecian harp, and another philosopher, Pyth-a-go-ras (born about B.C. 582) is said to have added the eighth string.
Greek lyre
The Greek Lyre
Pyth-a-go-ras also invented a system of four tones known as the tet-ra-chord (or series of four notes), which led to the first scale of one octave. The following are tet-ra-chords:
You will readily see how, when two tet-ra-chords are arranded thus, an octave scale results.
They also had a chromatic scale, which was similar to our chromatic scale, and in time they built up a system of scales which was similar in many respects to a form of our modern minor scales, called the “normal” or the “pure”. The Greek system as a whole was very hard to understand, but an idea of one part of it may be gained from the following:
Note that the normal minor scale is the same as the major scale of the same name, with the third, sixth and seventh steps of the scale lowered one half tone, both going up and coming down the scale. The Greeks gave their scales odd names, such as “dorian”, “phrygian”, etc., as shown in the following:
I. Dorian scale, resembling the scale of D minor

II. Phrygian scale, resembling the scale of E minor

III. Lydian scale, resembling the scale of F sharp minor

IV. Mixo-lydian scale, resembling the G minor scale

V. Hypo-dorian scale, resembling the A minor scale

VI. Hypo-phrygian scale, resembling the B minor scale

VII. Hypo-lydian scale, resembling the C sharp minor scale

The Greek’s scales were also called “modes”.
You may see from the foregoing how important scales were considered thousands of years ago. It is not known that Greeks practiced harmony, or the art of combining sounds and chords to produce beautiful effects. We must, however, be grateful to them for many of the terms used in modern music, as in modern medicine.
During the next ten hundred years very little advance was made in musical art, except for the part played by the famous music workers of the early Roman Catholic Church, and for the invention of a system of musical notation, without which future musical developments would not have been possible.
Sappho Singing to Phaon
Showing the manner in which the Great Lyre was played.
Music (disambiguation)
Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence, expressed through time. Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike; "art of the Muses")
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to personal interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within the arts, music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art. It may also be divided among art music and folk music. There is also a strong connection between music and mathematics. Music may be played and heard live, may be part of a dramatic work or film, or may be recorded.
To many people in many cultures, music is an important part of their way of life. Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound."[3] Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez summarizes the relativist, post-modern viewpoint: "The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be."
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