Finally our musical journey through numbers reached adulthood with 18. Surprisingly this number is much less popular with songwriters than it’s predecessor 16. Perhaps that is because it has only recently taken on the mantle of adulthood. So today’s collection may not be as well known as with some numbers but it has still has […]
Gloria
Antonio Vivaldi wrote at least three settings of the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo, whose words date probably from the 4th Century and which is an integral part of the Ordinary of the Mass. Two survive: RV 588 and RV 589. A third, RV 590, is mentioned only in the Kreuzherren catalogue and presumed lost. […]
17
17 is an intersting age, In some ways it is neither one thing nor the other. You have passed through the magical coming of age of 16 and yet have not reached 18 the current marker of adulthood. In the UK you can drive a car but still cannot buy a drink in a pub. […]
16
As we move through the numbers from 11-19, it is inevitable that there would be a cluster of songs around the number 16. Sixteen being the magical age of consent, and when people can get married at least in the Western world. I sadly suspect that the majority of the songs will be taken from […]
Teen Songs
This is the first post in a series about songs that feature songs employing the numbers 11-19. Today we are going to pay particular attention to the numbers 11-15. Again, I am unsure of what I will find but the search is always fun and the discoveries usually quite surprising. “11.59” is a track from […]
10
Our final entry in the simple numerical sequence. After this, I shall be gathering numbers into groups to post a collection, e.g. teens, twenties etc. Ten may be the hardest of the early to write about because on an initial search there appear to be no popular songs using this number, but who knows what […]
9
Having arrived at 9, we are nearly at the end of of our first tranche of numerical lists of songs, I am expecting there to be several songs which reference the use of 9 for emergencies and also because of its’ rhyming possibilities. So let’s have look and see what we can find. “Love Potion […]
8
Unlike the past two days withe the numbers 6 and 7, when it comes 8 I came to this post with a couple of songs already in my head. However the test will be whether I can uncover more music using 8 as it’s theme. At first glance you would have thought that it might […]
7
And so we come to the number 7. Many people believe this to be a lucky number and certainly it is the number that arrived at wqhen you add any of the oppsing sides of six sided dice together. This means that is possibly the most frequent result when two dice are rolled. As for […]
6
This series about songs with numbers in the title has now reached what might prove to be the most difficult of those between 1-10 to identify. The number 6 does not readily bring to mind much in the of music. It is not a number that one associates with anything in particular. So yet again […]