Category Archives: Music

A Few Pennies for a Lot of Thoughts

Posted on January 31, 2016 by colonialist

For R5-00 at our local flea market yesterday (equivalent to £0-22p or $0-31c) I purchased a set of one CD and one DVD – obtainable from Amazon for £23-63 or R534-81.   For anyone who grew up in and shortly after … Continue reading →

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You are Really Awfully into Light Operetta.

Posted on January 22, 2016 by colonialist

Though you insist that Haydn You cannot be abidin’, And Beethoven, you claim, Did not deserve his fame, Plus you declare that Mendelssohn, Of all your favourites, isn’t one, And all the stuff of Handel To mods can’t light a candle, … Continue reading →

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‘Movers and Shakers’ – a Modern Concept?

Posted on October 4, 2015 by colonialist

I do enjoy it when I follow a trail and it leads to a quite unexpected quarry, with links and surprises worthy of some of the writings of Kate Shrewsday. This evening I learnt that my publisher and friend has … Continue reading →

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A Musical Re-Dusk-covery

Posted on September 6, 2015 by colonialist

Scrabbling through a stash of sheet music in one of our garages, in a box still to be unpacked further, I came across the piano score of ‘Dusk’ by composer Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960).  He was a popular songwriter of … Continue reading →

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Striking a Really Awfully Happier Chord

Posted on July 19, 2015 by colonialist

More than a year ago         You saw me here re-chord Some notes of utter woe At seeing pianos go That were so much adored. Well, early now this year, I tried some keyboards out, But all of those, I fear, … Continue reading →

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A Quite InQuedible Quartet!

Posted on July 4, 2014 by colonialist

  Whatever music you are into, you cannot help but be impressed, entertained and amused by this amazing group of ladies:  

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On really awfully sad notes …

Posted on June 16, 2014 by colonialist

My pianos are good friends That I have had for countless years But every era ends, And though it costs me floods of tears, I must accept the spot Which we’ll soon have to occupy Just hasn’t got a lot … Continue reading →

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‘Do’-ing ‘Re’-peat gives ‘Mi’ (‘Fa’ too much ‘So’) more ‘La’-‘Te’-tude.

Posted on January 9, 2014 by colonialist

The overwhelming outpouring of enthusiastic comments on my previous post saying, in effect, ‘Duh…?!’, together with some technical background stuff from Calmgrove, encouraged me to expand upon the infliction.  Here I do an even more obscure version of my graphics … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Caption Competition, Children's Fiction, Fantasy, Music, Parody, Really Awful Rhyme, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 18 Comments

‘DO’ SOUND OF MUSIC WITH SPOONFUL OF TONIC

Posted on January 8, 2014 by colonialist

Do, a Tonic or Key Note, Re, on Supertonic shines, Mi, for Mediant you quote, Fa, Sub-Dominant defines, So, to Dominant must go, La, Sub-Mediant will show, Te, as Leading Note, below Do, next Tonic up, assigns! © Colonialist December … Continue reading →

Posted in Colonialist, verse, writing, music composition, fantasy, Africa, journal., Music, Parody, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged , , , , , , | 28 Comments

Jokes on a Really Awful Note

Posted on December 29, 2013 by colonialist

A note comes into a bar and says, ’Plink!’ A note comes into a bar and says, ’Can I get you a plink?’ A note comes into a bar, sidles up to another note and says, ‘Can I give you … Continue reading →

Posted in Colonialist, verse, writing, music composition, fantasy, Africa, journal., Music, Really Awful Joke | Tagged , , , , | 35 Comments