This piece by Johann Sebastian Bach needs no introduction. There are other sections that are not as well known, but this segment is the most popular. It was one of the first of many simplified Bach pieces I learned as an early piano student. I still enjoy playing it, more than 26 years later.
I hope you enjoy this arrangement played first as a duet on alto recorder, then on lyre, next on zither, and ending with the recorder duet!
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Nature continues
As lifeforms keep on slipping
In and out of time
—
Written for
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 346 SLIP and Time.
If you go down in the woods today,
Beware of the drifting snow!
You’re going down in the woods today?
Remember your trusty phone!
Beneath the trees where nobody sees,
The covered ice anticipates feet…
Today’s the day the teddy bears have no picnic!
—
Surely you’ve heard “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic,” the song on which I based this no-picnic Quadrille… Apologies to all my teddy bear friends–I have 3, plus a unicorn, a sheep, and a pumpkin!
Written for
dVerse Quadrille #122: Go.
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” Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”~ Virginia Woolf Text and image …
Fiction is like a spider’s web.
“I called you! Why didn’t you answer?”
Several responses race through my mind,
all of them true, but some are unkind.
“I was out,
working,
or sleeping.”
“I’m tired of hearing your voice!”
“I’m not God;
I don’t have to answer!”
—
41 words for Sammi’s
Weekend Writing Prompt #197: Call.
“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There…
…now is as good a time as any.
I would have waited to post this hymn closer to Easter, if I had realized before recording it that it’s an Easter hymn. However, it’s also an Advent hymn, which I knew, entitled “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus.” In either case, the tune is a traditional Welsh melody called “Hyfrydol.”
Today you can clearly hear the difference between Oriole (soprano) and alto recorder. I play the melody as a solo on each of these instruments, then on viola, and end with zither.
Please feel free to share in the comments whether you prefer one recorder over the other! I prefer the warmer sound of the alto myself, but the Oriole is easier to play, with a shorter finger stretch. They’re also in different keys, with the Oriole in C and the alto in F.
I hope you enjoy this arrangement!
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