Saturday, 29 October 2011
Tumhi Hamari Ho Manzil My Love - Yaara Dildara
Bin Tere Sanam - Yaara Dildara
Pyar Maanga Hai Tumhi se - College Girl
Maher Zain - Ya Nabi Salam Alayka
Arabic Version:
Friday, 28 October 2011
L'Arlesienne Suite No.2 (4), by Georges Bizet
The incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne (usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles') was composed by Georges Bizet for the first performance of the play in 1872. It consists of 27 numbers (some only a few bars) for voice, chorus, and small orchestra, ranging from short solos to longer entr'actes.
Bizet wrote several folk-like themes for the music but also incorporated three existing tunes from a folk-music collection published by Vidal of Aix in 1864: the Marcho dei Rei, the Danse dei Chivau-Frus, and Er dou Guet. The score achieves powerful dramatic ends with the most economic of means.[1] Still, it received poor reviews in the wake of the premiere and is not much performed nowadays in its original form. It has survived and flourished, however, in the form of two suites for orchestra.
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Jay Ungar - Ashokan Farewell
"Ashokan Farewell" is a piece of music composed by Jay Ungar in 1982. It was later used as the title theme of the 1990 PBS television miniseries, The Civil War, as well as the 1991 compilation album, Songs of the Civil War.
The piece is a waltz in D major, written in the style of a Scottish lament (e.g., Niel Gow's "Lament for his second wife"). The most famous arrangement of the piece begins with a solo violin, later accompanied by guitar.
Before its use as the television series theme, "Ashokan Farewell" was recorded on Waltz of the Wind, the second album by the band Fiddle Fever. The musicians included Ungar and his wife, Molly Mason, who gave the tune its name.
In 1984, filmmaker Ken Burns heard "Ashokan Farewell" and was moved by it. He used it in two of his films: The Civil War, which features the original recording by Fiddle Fever in the beginning of the film, and his 1985 documentary Huey Long.
Clarinet Concerto in C minor Opus 31 (1), by Gerald Finzi
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Waiting for Your Call - Irfan Makki
Waltz in Ab major Opus 69 No.1, by Frederic Chopin
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Monday, 24 October 2011
Scarborough Fair
"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional ballad of the United Kingdom.
The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.
As the versions of the ballad known under the title "Scarborough Fair" are usually limited to the exchange of these impossible tasks, many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is a song about the Plague. The lyrics of "Scarborough Fair" appear to have something in common with an obscure Scottish ballad, The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad #2),[1] which has been traced at least as far back as 1670 and may well be earlier. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task ("For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he"); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform ("I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand").
The melody is very typical of the middle English period.
As the song spread, it was adapted, modified, and rewritten to the point that dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century, although only a few are typically sung nowadays. The references to the traditional English fair, "Scarborough Fair" and the refrain "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" date to 19th century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, (Child Ballad #1), which has a similar plot.
- Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- Remember me to one who lives there,
- she once was a true love of mine.
- Tell him/her to make me a cambric shirt,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- Without a seam or needle work,
- Then she'll be a true love of mine.
- Tell him/her to wash it in yonder dry well
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- Where water ne'er sprang, nor drop of rain fell
- Then she'll be a true love of mine.
- Tell him/her to dry it on yonder grey thorn
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- Which ne'er bore blossom since Adam was born
- Then she'll be a true love of mine.
- Tell him/her to find me an acre of land
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- Between the salt water and the sea strand
- Then she'll be a true love of mine
- Plow the land with the horn of a lamb
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- Then sow some seeds from the north of the dam
- Then she'll be a true love of mine
- Tell him (her) to reap it with a sickle of leather
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- And tie up the sheaves with a rope made of heather
- Then (s)he'll be a true love of mine
- If (s)he tells me (s)he can't I'll reply
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- "Let me know that at least you will try;"
- Then (s)he'll be a true love of mine
- "Love imposes impossible tasks,"
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- "Though never more than your own heart asks,
- And I must know you're a true love of mine"
- Dear, when thou hast finished thy task,
- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
- Come to me, my hand for to ask,
- For then thou art a true love of mine.
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Sound of tears - Nader Khan
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
It used to be shown in elementary schools. One of the best short length Halloween animations ever created (in 1980s :).
According to legend, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance their dance of death for him while he plays his fiddlerepresented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning. His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.
The piece opens with a harp playing a single note, D, twelve times (the twelve strokes of midnight) which is accompanied by soft chords from the string section. This then leads to the E flat and A chords also known as a tritone or the "Devil's chord", and the solo violin's E string is tuned a half step lower to create this effect played by a solo violinist, which represents death. After which the main theme is heard on a solo flute and is followed by a descending scale on the solo violin which is accompanied by soft chords from the string section, particularly the lower instruments of the string section, followed by the full orchestra who then joins in on the descending scale. The main theme and the scale is then heard throughout the various sections of the orchestra until it breaks to the solo violin and the harp playing the scale. The piece becomes more energetic and climaxes with the full orchestra playing very strong dynamics. Towards the end of the piece, there is another violin solo, now in modulation, which is then joined by the rest of the orchestra. The final section represents the dawn breaking (a cockerel's crow, represented by the oboe) and the skeletons returning to their graves.
The piece makes particular use of the xylophone to imitate the sounds of rattling bones. Saint-Saëns uses a similar motif in the Fossils movement of The Carnival of the Animals.
When Danse macabre first premiered, it was not received well.[citation needed] Audiences were quite unsettled by the disturbing, yet innovative,[dubious – discuss] sounds that Saint-Saëns elicited. Shortly after the premiere, it was transcribed into a piano arrangement by Franz Liszt (S.555),[1] a good friend of Saint-Saëns. It was again later transcribed into a popular piano arrangement by virtuoso pianist Vladimir Horowitz. The pipe organ transcription by Lemare is also popular.
Eventually, the piece was used in dance recitals, particularly those of Anna Pavlova.
Friday, 21 October 2011
Game of Thrones - Title Theme Song
Procession Of The Sardar - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Usman Riaz - FIRE FLY
Dmitri Shostakovich - Jazz Suite No. 2: VI. Waltz 2 - Part 6/8
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Russian pronunciation: [dmʲitrij ˌdmʲitrɪjevʲiʨ ʂɨstɐˈkɔvʲɪʨ] (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович[1]; 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.
Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Leon Trotsky's chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky, but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government. Nevertheless, he also received accolades and state awards and served in theSupreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1947–1962) and the USSR (from 1962 until death).
After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky, Shostakovich developed a hybrid style, as exemplified by Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1934). This single work juxtaposed a wide variety of trends, including the neo-classical style (showing the influence of Stravinsky) and post-Romanticism (after Gustav Mahler). Sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque[2] characterize much of his music.
Kill Bill-soundtrack whistle
Kill Bill Theme Song
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Jism: Awarapan Banjarapan
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Razia sultan - Aye Dil-e-Nadaan
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46/8 / Rattle - Dvořák
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Opera - Bizet Carmen Toreador Song
May remind you of the classical Nokia Ringtones
Movie: The Big Country Theme
The Big Country is a 1958 American Western film directed by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck, who also co-produced the film with Wyler, plus Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker,Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, and Chuck Connors. It was based on the serialized magazine novel Ambush at Blanco Canyon by Donald Hamilton.[1]
Ives won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for the musical score by Jerome Moross.