Columbia phonograph cylinder Music at Troynovant:
Notes on Music, Song, Dance, & Composers;
listed by Title

References to the history and culture of music, both popular and classical, and including the lyrical or dramatic, and dance — even in silent films. Good music speaks to its time, but as with the best literature, the best music also is timeless.

... there is no Music of the spheres ... Plutarch speaks as if a man might very conveniently hear that harmony, if he were an inhabitant in the Moone. But I guess that he said this out of incogitancy, and did not well consider the necessary consequences upon his opinion.

However the world would have no great loss in being deprived of this Music, unless at some times we had the privilege to hear it ....

John Wilkins
The Discovery of a World in the Moone
or, A Discourse Tending to Prove
that 'tis probable there may be another habitable World in that Planet  (1638)


  
Act Naturally Beatles RW Franson

Dance Cards
  Dating Ahead at a Ball
RW Franson
Dancing Socially at a Formal Ball RW Franson
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs Dave Barry RW Franson
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Whedon / Harris RW Franson
Dressed to Kill (Sherlock Holmes) Neill / Rathbone  RW Franson

Finding Serenity
  Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers
  
in Joss Whedon's Firefly
Jane Espenson RW Franson
Fluttering Hearts Parrott / Chase RW Franson

Good Rockin' Tonight
  Sun Records & the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
Colin Escott
  & Martin Hawkins
RW Franson
Green Hills of Earth, The Robert A. Heinlein RW Franson
Gypsy Princess versus Blitz RW Franson

Hey There Cthulhu Eben Brooks RW Franson

If Ever You Wanted One Thing Twice
  Zarathustra as Blues Singer
RW Franson

Johann Strauss, Father and Son
  A Century of Light Music
H. E. Jacob RW Franson

Mule, The Isaac Asimov RW Franson

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning Fleischer / Berlin RW Franson

Progressives and Anarchists:
  Let's Dance ... Wait, What?
SE Jordan

Sing, Earthly Muse
  Music in Ayn Rand's Aesthetics
WH Stoddard
Songs of Love and Grief Heinrich Heine RW Franson
Sons of the Pioneers
  Music on Your Desktop
RW Franson
  

  
Compilation:
Queen of Dances
  Waltz observations by master writers
RW Franson
  

  
[Glendower's castle, Wales.]

Mortimer:

With all my heart, I'll sit and hear her sing.
By that time will our book, I think, be drawn.

Glendower:

Do so, and those musicians that shall play to you
Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,
And straight they shall be here. Sit and attend.

William Shakespeare
1 Henry IV, 3.1.218-222

  


  
Soundie reviews by Title
shorter musical films of song and/or dance,
music videos

 

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