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  1. Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @[email protected] ·

    And now for some fun with classical music. Telemann wrote this suite in 1728, two years after the Jonathan Swift classic was published, and it humorously refers to some of his creations with the music.

    "Intrada Suite for Two Violins (The Gulliver Suite)," composed by Georg Philipp Telemann, performed here by uncredited artists.

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ep1FdFpqU4

    #MusicalInterlude #ClassicalMusic #GeorgPhilippTelemann #GulliversTravels #JonathanSwift #MusicalHumor #Baroque

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  2. scholar_farmer @[email protected] ·

    Today's blog post is on musical humor in the context of pandemics, and looks at "The Flu Pandemic Song" by the Flying Fish Sailors, with its focus on the flu pandemic of 1918-1919. How is it that we can cheerily sing along with lyrics like "and they died, died, died"? It's humor, but maybe it's something more.

    silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

    #blog #research #PandemicMusic #1919Flu #Influenza #MusicalHumor #Music #AcademicChatter #Musicology

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