Thalia's Rag for wind quintet with limericks.wmv

Thalia is the flourishing Muse of humour and comedy. This is a ragtime for wind quintet, composed by David W Solomons, in her honour.
The audio sample is an electronic preview.
It has a central section in which each instrument takes its turn to "tell" a humorous limerick. In this version I have added some limericks of my own, just by way of example.
Any performers who can find a speaker who is prepared to recite limericks (any limericks will do!) in time with these rhythmical excerpts is most welcome to invite him or her to do so :-)
Each instrument has its own approach to its overall feel for humour, the clarinet being perhaps the most embarrassing since it occasionally continues to "chuckle" with its bottom notes after everyone else has gone on to the next subject.

The score and parts can be obtained at the following links:
Thalia's Rag for wind quintet (without limericks)
http://dwsolo.load.cd/sheetmusic/sm-85718_thalia_s_rag__wind_quintet.html

Thalia's Rag for wind quintet (with limericks)
http://dwsolo.load.cd/sheetmusic/sm-85719_thalia_s_rag_with_limericks__wind_q...




There was a young man from Dunoon
Who loved to play on the bassoon
He played it with ease
but his neighbours said "Please,
Four thirty a.m. is too soon!"

A gardener who played the french horn
serenaded his garden at dawn
The grass grew so fast
He looked on aghast
and lost his french horn in the lawn.


There once was a musical vet
who wanted to play clarinet
with his parrot he sat
two dogs and a cat
and together they formed a quintet


The village of Upper Lobotomy
Accused a young man of cacophony
The oboe he'd play
Scared the wildlife away
So they sentenced him to an oboe-tomy

A serious young flautist called Flo
Insisted that blues were "no go!"
After Porgy and Bess
She had to confess
"It ain't necessarily so!"




Statue of the Muse Thalia as part of the Musenrondell in Sanssouci, Potsdam) photographed by Steffen Heilfort - Creative Commons

3.0
Portraits of Thalia (public domain) by Eustache Le Sueur and Jean-Marc Nattier
Statue of Thalia by Josef Klieber in the Musensaal at the Archduke's Palace (Erzherzog Albrecht), in Vienna, photograhed by

"Xenophon" (Wolfgang Sauber)
Thalia und Erato (in the form of little boys!) at the Haus zum Roten Ochsen, Fischmarkt, Erfurt, photographed by Andreas Praefke

- Creative Commons 3.0
Portrait of Thalia by Frank Weston Benson (public Domain) - at the Library of Congress, Washington

Category:

Music

Tags:

• thalia
• muse
• comedy
• humour
• wind quintet
• woodwind
• flute
• oboe
• clarinet
• horn
• bassoon
• david w solomons
• original music
• original limericks
• limericks
• it ain't necessarily so
• Classical
• Funny

[raypizzi]

..... LOVE This Concept..... CREATIVE ! FRESH ! CLEVER ! Love the merging of art forms..... Congratulations !

P.S. I'm afraid my limericks would turn the concert hall into a bowling alley. Best, RPz

[dwsolo]

@raypizzi Hi Ray. Thanks :-) Alternative limericks would indeed depend on the venue LOL ;-)

[dwsolo]

Thanks Joe, Joe and Ed :-)

[Eddy438]

I thought both the music and limericks were quite impressive with the cool "rag" and the hilarious limericks.

The limericks section reminded me of "Facade" in fact.

Congrats, David

[apollonmusagete]

Eminently musical and whimsically charming! We are well a-Mused!

[JoeFielding72]

Hay David. You video and performance has made my night. I hope you are doing well my dear friend. I look so forward to your next gift to my ears. God bless you and your family.