A few days ago, I witnessed a lovely view while driving home late in the evening. The moonlight illuminated the bay and gave a nice reflection on the surface of the sea. That scene immediately brought some tunes to my mind, as who would not think about Moonlight Sonata when seeing the full moon? Well, maybe other people would think about some different songs, or music would not be associated with this moon thingy at all. (Btw, what is your first musical association to the moon, before you see my selection?)
However, my ears heard music. First, before any other tune, Clair de lune by Claude Debussy was there to accompany the scene. Of course, in my imagination, because I didn't have Lang Lang in the front passenger seat to play us the piano. There was my son, the reason I had to drive to pick him up as it was late and dark. A gorgeous piano composition, known to many music lovers, not just pianists. At one point, the majority of the piano players want to learn and perform this work. Wouldn't you wish the same, to touch in this gentle way the piano keys and create some magic?
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Proceed with reading after listening to the whole piece...
But as I can not really know if you have listened to Moonlight related piece composed by Debussy until the end or not, I will continue writing and bringing the next masterpiece that can not be missed here. Yes, that other moonlight composition, the Moonlight Sonata, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. I think everyone can recognize the first movement of this Sonata. But if you want some more action, to see the spider fingers of Valentina, and complete domination over the black and white keys, you will like to listen to the part of the video starting at 7:44 (it is just a suggestion... it would be actually nicer to listen to the whole sonata, but who has nowadays 14 and half minutes extra in the daily schedule? Maybe an evening schedule, with some real moonlight can help to have that time.)
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Oh, Valentina Lisitsa neither was in my car then, just my mind imagined all these piano sounds. However, the moon was still there, maybe laughing at me? Called me a lunatic?
Moonstruck! Me??
Well, I know who was moonstruck. Pierrot!
Or just the composer Arnold Schönberg thought that about the poor guy Pierrot and wrote a whole set of 21 pieces upon the poems by Albert Giraud. The music is pretty... unstable. It is atonal, which means there is no established key it is written in. The set of instruments required for the performance is also weird: voice (can be male or female) flute, piccolo, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano. The voice doesn't really have to sing. It is more speech-singing. Whispering. Shouting.
So, who dares to press the play button on the next video???
I bet, it will give you an experience you have not expected. Hope to see you back after the listening experience...
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Well, you will let me know (maybe, if you want) if this composition scared you, made you feel disturbed, or you just wanted it to finish as soon as possible. Maybe you enjoyed this completely different sound?
I can not finish my post with this piece, no. There are more classical pieces related to the moon and moonlight, also songs from the pop genre, soundtracks etc. But we could also go on an excursion to the moon as Mr Brouček did.
The opera The Excursions of Mr Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century was composed by a Czech composer, Leoš Janáček. Of course, we are all back from the Luna journey and living firmly on the planet Earth, but we can do this imaginary trip to the moon, as the protagonist of the opera did. Maybe we can even dance some waltz on there, so for that we need music:
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Dancing and driving, going on a crazy moon trip, getting a bit moonstruck or just relaxing with Debussy? Maybe swinging as the girl is doing in the cover photo made in canva using a template? We can all do that when the moonlight inspires us. You know where. In our imagination.
This was an incredible journey between piece and piece, the 1st was very relaxing and I loved it because of the video and the night landscapes while he was playing; not only he does play amazing the piano but the video's cinematographer did a beautiful job!!
I put Valentina's video in slow motion after watching it, I did it right when she's possessed and she plays that piano, that was insane! she is not of this world hahaha
the video of the narrated opera, I didn't see it all the way through but that was amazing, playing between music and poetry like that, it was as if they were improvising a soundtrack while she spoke and sang, it was very interesting!!
And the last video was something very subtle, very classic, very well done, I liked how the strings and percussion sounded, I loved it!!!
You made me travel with you with this very special musical content, the moon always inspires disturbing and also beautiful and brilliant works. Every time someone talks about the moon I always bring to mind one of my own songs called "Loco", I wrote it on the window of my room while I saw the full moon; and there are many songs that I remember inspired by the moon, for me it is the best source of inspiration when writing, I write almost all my songs at night and I have to see the moon, it is like a ritual hahaha, but it works very well for me!!
Sorry for the length of my response but your post was very cool and I had to take the time to talk in detail. I really liked the main image of your post!!!
I send you a big hug, thanks for giving me good songs to listen to... You Rockkkk!!!! 🙌😀🔥🎹🎶❤️🌟🥂💥💫💯
Wow, you listened to all of them. That is called active listening!
You are so right, the first video is edited so nicely, it is not just the music that Lang Lang plays, but the landscape from Paris at the night is magical too.
Valentine is cool, I love how she plays. There are more famous pianists but she is close to my heart :D
Oh, and you dared to open the Pierrot video, it was a brave action! ;D
You could have him as a patient, right?
Ok, so you composed a song called Loco? Crazy. I mean it's crazy that you composed a song called Crazy :D and inspired by the moon. That is a coincidence, you see, Arnold Schönberg was also inspired by the moon.
Will we ever listen to that song of yours?
Is it heavy metal genre? Rock? Classical? Pop? Tell us more. Or just play it one day to Hive population :))
The Pierrot video was crazy certainly, it would be a very interesting patient believe me, but that was very well done art no doubt!!!!
Yes it is crazy that hahaha but yes, I wrote a song called that, in fact I presented it at Hive Open Mic in week 82 I leave you the video in case you didn't get to see it at the time hehe and I leave you the demo I recorded of the song, it's my favorite song of all the ones I've written!!!!
Hive Open Mic Week 82:
Demo:
the genre is alternative metal and I played it many times live when I played concerts, the people liked that song and we always closed the concerts with it!!!
Hope you like it 👍😉🔥🎙️🎸🎶❤️🌟🥂💥💫💯
Thanks for sharing. Seems that I missed this entry, sorry.
I am listening to it now, and í have to tell you that it sounds very cool. Well, how it wouldn't be cool? After all, you Rock :D
Don't worry about that 😁 Thank you so much, I'm glad that you liked it 😍... You Rockkkk toooo 🙌😀🔥🎙️🎸🎶❤️🌟🥂💥💫💯
I will listen and write!
I like how much love you write about music, it is felt in every word of yours!
As I love music, I hope that the writing around it is also filled with it 😇
❤️ 👍
The first association I make between music and the moon is with the song "Cry For The Moon" by the Symphonic Metal Band Epica, although the style of music is not close to any of the pieces you showed us, I consider it has its charm (
At times it seemed like Lang Lang gliding across the keys almost without touching them, magical and elegant, I loved that song.
Of course I recognized Moonlight Sonata when I started listening to it but I took your suggestion to go to minute 7 44 and I felt my mind was going to explode watching Valentina play so fast, I couldn't follow it. Loved this post dear mipiano, A hug!
Oh, symphonic metal band, I like the way how this genre is titled :)) that symphonic makes it closer to classical music 🎶 ;)
The girl from there sings great, btw. I imagine @fernanblog would also like the makeup, the white eye lids :D
Hahah, yeah, that third movement from the sonata is crazy 😎🎶
Thanks for stopping by and bringing your moon musical association @musicandreview 🌟🌟🌟
I loved it hahahaha 👍😉🔥🎙️🎸🎶❤️🌟🥂💥💫💯
When I think of the moon I think of werewolves and especially one movie in particular. An American Werewolf in London.
I'm pretty sure each song either had moon in the title of the song or was related to it. This is a scary one so cover your eyes. In the meantime a little CCR can't be turned down 😀
Ok, covered them and a terrible and so scary thing happened... I laughed as a lunatic 😆
Great association you had @buffalobison :)) 🎶🎶
Ludwig van Beethoven is a very popular name, I still remain that name from High School music classes..These music selections are very amazing especially if you get to Play or hear them when you are moonstrucked like you said..lol...I could feel the Emotions you felt..
I am glad you used to learn about Beethoven in the school, and I hope you also liked the composition and this selection 🌝🎶
Thanks for reading @gone-hive 😎
Moonlight Sonata is one of my favorites. It seems to be the only thing that can cure my writer's block. And why I am not that knowledgeable of classical music, there is something about it that runs through every fiber of my being whenever I listen to it. It resonates with you in the same way that your writing resonates with me. The flow of your words is what gripped me. I guess you are Ludwig's literary cousin. Nice piece.
Ludwig's literary cousin? Sounds great :D
But I suppose I am way far away from that.
I hope your writer's block can be cured every time you listen to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Would be good to have it saved in some of your music playlists.
I also have some favourite music to listen to while writing a post, but it is not classical music.
Thank you for sharing these videos, i really want to, you cover a song from Beethoven once😇😇
Oh, I already played that Beethoven sonata, well, just the first movement, many weeks ago in Hive Open Mic.
Thank you for stopping by @discouragedones :)
This is awesome. What you did with the cover art is really incredible, and of course as always, I love the music you share here :)
Oh, the cover photo was really easy to make, it is already a template, so I was just playing with the words. Nothing changed on moonlight and tree and swing lol
I am glad you liked the music, and I hope the set of pieces Pierrot Lunaire was not so crazy hahaha
Oh hahaha! Ok I saw you made it with Canva, but to be honest I have no idea what this is, so I pictured you making it from scratch in some software similar to Illustrator! Still, it’s a really striking image, but the music is what has the greatest impact :)
I would be happy if I could make something like that from scratch :D
Canva is good for editing your photos, adding some cool stuff and effects to them, plus you can use different sizes (for different platforms) and use some templates. If you have a subscription to pro ( that I use from my husband's Canva account) there are more possibilities and templates an all. I probably use 0,01 from the possibilities 😂
LOL! Well it seems like a super cool utility, I may have to check out the free version and see where it takes me!
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Aaaah qué melodías tan hermosas son todas 🤗 me encantó lo que hizo Arnold, fue tan diferente que no lo entiendo, y estoy bien con eso 🌚🌝✨
Luna, luna, música lunática... Creo que recuerdo a Ximena Sariñana junto a Volovan cantando "La luna" 🌜
Un saludo lunar para ti querida maestra de ensueño. Feliz semana! ✨
oh, Arnold te gustó? Pues sí que es diferente, de hecho, no toda la música tiene que ser igual, verdad jajaja?
De la música pop a mí lo primero que me viene a la mente es la canción Hijo de la luna :D
Saludos lunares van de vuelta y feliz semana para el poeta de los comentarios también :)
like Cancer in the horoscope, you can imagine how much I love the Moon and this composition. 🌙
Thanks for this post, wonderful. ❤️
I am glad you liked the pieces and the Moon :)))
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Wow, thanks for sharing this, I've come to love "Lang -lang" by Claude Debussy, it's now one of my favorite pieces. I really appreciate what you do
Lang Lang is the pianist, and the composition is Clair de lune
I am glad you liked it :))
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Thank you 😎