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Sounds of Autumn
Went out today in the car and noticed “all the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey”. It really feels like autumn is here. I wish I had my camera so I could capture the essence of autumn all around.
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Great topic, thanks Jung! Very beautiful music and even more beautiful pictures. I love the harmony of music and images above all. All our senses together; the most beautiful thing we have.
(Sorry Jung, I completely overlooked the fact that Eric Clapton had already sung the same thing earlier in your topic).
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Wow, autumn really seems to be shortchanged relative to the other seasons in the songwriting world! I wanted to contribute a song to this thread, but couldn’t think of any, so I had to search the net. I found this one, which was written in 1949 and covered by numerous artists. This version is by the Four Freshmen, whose style of vocal harmonies was a huge influence on the Beach Boys.
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David, you’re right: there really isn’t that much music on the theme of autumn. And if there is, then it’s rather sad songs. Then just the classics:
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David, Jurgen, yeah Autumn songs seem to be more melancholic and about reflection, change, or passing of love. I guess Autumn is all about inevitable change and everything that comes with that good and bad. No worries, Jurgen that version of Autumn Leaves is beautiful. Looks like that song was covered by many artists. Nice Four Freshman song David. The Beach Boys certainly owe a lot to the Four Freshman for sure. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is a masterpiece and sound like it could have been written today, it’s so timeless.
Here is another one:
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A very nice and for me previously unknown song by Neil Young.
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A song that fits well into the mood of autumn (but this time I checked carefully: the song does not yet exist here in the topic, or is it ?! 🙂 )
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Jurgen, that’s a really nice one. Thanks.
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I don’t know if you knew “Blackmore’s Night” before. The guy with the guitar is Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple), the singer is his wife. The two of them have been producing medieval-inspired songs for many years. There are really nice songs on it and he can still play guitar.
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I forgot all about this one. Here is an elegant gem by the Moody Blues.
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I just discovered this one:
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David, the Kinks never cease to impress me. They have such a diverse coverage of topics in their songs that all sound so great.
Jurgen, that’s a cool video, very artistically done, and the whole video is so soothing and calming up on the quiet hill in the Autumn. It feels like Autumn.
Thanks for sharing these! 🙂
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„Kalte Winde“ (Cold winds). The song describes how a beautiful autumn with blue sky and bright sun slowly gives way to winter and the year draws to a close. Finally a white blanket of snow will cover the land until everything is wrapped in oblivion, but the love of the people close to us brings the world to new life.
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I shared this with the twins when I joined the club last year.
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Thanks for sharing that Lynn. Music is very nice, and the scenery in the video is stunning.
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Another nice one Jurgen. It has a bit of a Celtic sound to it in some parts to my ears anyway. That instrument she use looks fascinating, like a little music box the way she cranks the little handle to play it. Never seen anything like it. Some nice instruments played, like that mandolin too. Thanks.
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The instrument you mean, Jung, is a so-called “Drehleier” or “Radleier”, in french “Vielle à Roue”, or in english “Hurdy-gurdy”. The hurdy-gurdy is a mechanized stringed instrument from the class of lute instruments, known since the Middle Ages, in which the strings are struck by a built-in wheel that is turned by means of a crank. The vibrating length of one or more melody strings is shortened mechanically via keys in order to change the pitch. So much for the theory. In practice, the Hurdy-gurdy is often used in the medieval music scene. This includes for example also the group Blackmore’s Night, which uses historical instruments, but no hurdy-gurdy as far as I know. You’re right, the music sounds Celtic, Germanic or Gallic. The theme of autumn, medieval times and medieval markets also fits very well together. Imagine this:
The smell of freshly baked bread is in the air and small, colorful market stalls nestle close to the massive masonry of a half-ruined city wall. Travelling merchants in wide motley robes offer pottery and hand-turned candles, right next to a stall serving fresh mead and chestnut beer in bent horn cups. A troupe of jugglers has gathered under a massive old oak tree, its foliage shimmering yellow and gold in the warm autumn sun. The musicians of the group play a cheerful melody on their shawms, accompanied by bulbous, four-sided stringed instruments, to the rhythm of flat fur drums and a tambourine. A few steps away lets a juggler rotate burning torches in a circle and bows elegantly to the applause of his numerous spectators. Directly across the paved street, a blacksmith’s hammer sounds as he shapes the blades of small daggers on his anvil, while a few steps away a young woman is selling baked goods. Wrapped in a wide robe and hiding her face under a hood so no one can see her bright blue eyes, she offers deliciously fragrant, golden-brown cinnamon buns from the distant land of Arrakis. With an extra helping „Spice” and fresh out of the oven, as her well-traveled guests prefer to eat it.
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