I recently posted a collection of songs about Autumn, as I write there is snow on the ground and so it seemed appropriate to suggest that with November on it’s last day that it is time for a collection of winter songs. “Winter” is the last concerto of The Four Seasons by Italian composer Antonio […]
November
The blog makes it’s return after a fortnight of enforced absence and to celebrate this we are going to spend the morning in November. Although November is nearly at an end, I though we should mark it’s passing with a collection of songs in which it’s virtues are praised. “Rose Hip November” is a track […]
Sideways
Today we end our travels amongst the directional songs with what may well prove to be the most difficult direction of all – ‘Sideways’. I cannot imagine that there are a multitude of songs that feature sideways in the title. However I do like a challenge – so here we go. “Over Under Sideways Down” […]
Back 2
As promised yesterday, we are continuing to look at the direction ‘back’ for another day. The six songs that appeared yesterday were just the tip of the iceberg and so here we go with round two. “My Back Pages” is a song written by Bob Dylan and included on his 1964 album Another Side of […]
Back
Now in our series on directions we come to ‘back’ which will undoubtedly prove to be a rich source of songs. Indeed I am already planning for ‘Back 2’ as tomorrow’s post. So then let’s see what our researches can uncover. “Back in the U.S.A.” is a song written by Chuck Berry that was released […]
Spiegel Im Spiegel
Spiegel im Spiegel is a composition by Arvo Part written in 1978, just before his departure from Estonia. The piece is in the tintinnabular style, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonic scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany each other. It is about ten minutes long. The piece was […]
Forward
Having explored left, right, up and down we are now going to explore the alternative commands forwards and back. i suspect that there will certainly be more songs associated with back than with fowards but who knows what we might discover. “Fast Forward” the title track from the 1985 dance film directed by Sidney Poitier. […]
Left
I am aware that ‘left’ has always been the dispised younger brother of right. The Romans used the word ‘sinister’ for left and we have taken the word to indicate something uneasy. Left-handed people have always been look on with suspicion. Indeed my father was forced to become right handed at school because left-handedness was […]
Right
The next direction on our list for research is ‘right’. I would expect that there will be many songs using the word in the title bearing in mind it’s other meaning of ‘correct’. Anyway we will see if my suspicion is well founded as well head into the archives. “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and […]
Down 2
My researches yesterday turned up a wealth of songs with ‘down’ in the title and so it seemed appropriate to take a second bite at the cherry. So here is our second post on the subject of ‘down’ in song. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” is a song by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. […]