Impromptu Singing

[teamsaint]

Mouldy Old Dough is a great tune to whistle and more complex than you think. Rossini overtures are also good to toot along to! Debussy on the other hand is good to sing along to and good for practising notes at the top end of my range as is Ravel's Mother Goose. Schubert is good for harmonising against!

Interesting thought on Schubert.
but I won't be whistling.....or in public.......

[gradus]

Does no-one sing along to their operatic or vocal CDs? I used to do this but found Siegfried's forging scene and the first song of Das Lied von der Erde tough going but the upside is that I still know the words off by heart!

Yes, in car and kitchen especially from Butterfly plus forays into Porgy and Bess and Mahler, Schumann and English songs.
Oddly I'm the only one in the house that enjoys my efforts.

[cloughie]

Interesting thought on Schubert.
but I won't be whistling.....or in public.......

Try the second movt of Schubert 5!

[vinteuil]

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... much of the music i like is contrapuntal - i have been known to hum a phrase from one part and jump to another - not to anyone's satisfaction... i now tend only to hum when no-one is about....

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[Historian]

Thinking back to my childhood (hard to think forward to it I suppose) my mother was always singing round the house. If I wanted her to sing a particular song I would hum a few phrases quietly nearby while she was busy doing something else. A few moments later she would break into the same song.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thinking back to my childhood (hard to think forward to it I suppose) my mother was always singing round the house. If I wanted her to sing a particular song I would hum a few phrases quietly nearby while she was busy doing something else. A few moments later she would break into the same song.

If she'd followed you at a fixed distance in duration, she could well have been in canon!

[Historian]

Hadn't thought of that; I seem to remember that I just listened. An opportunity lost!

[Serial_Apologist]

Hadn't thought of that; I seem to remember that I just listened. An opportunity lost!

[cloughie]

If she'd followed you at a fixed distance in duration, she could well have been in canon!

Would she have been fired up for it?

[Serial_Apologist]

Would she have been fired up for it?

Only if she'd been a load of those round things.

[Historian]

Much more of this and I will be sending a salvo at the host for allowing it...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Much more of this and I will be sending a salvo at the host for allowing it...

Go on, Histy; as I know you to be someone of great consideration - Salvo Me, fons pietatis.

[Historian]

I think you can judge the intellectual level of a forum when the puns come in 'foreign' as well as English. Trying to think of a riposte, but failing so far.

[cloughie]

I think you can judge the intellectual level of a forum when the puns come in 'foreign' as well as English. Trying to think of a riposte, but failing so far.

Just sing it - fits the Austrian Hymn tune!

...or even Men of Harlech!

[Serial_Apologist]

I think you can judge the intellectual level of a forum when the puns come in 'foreign' as well as English. Trying to think of a riposte, but failing so far.

We don't hear enough of your valuable views on the forum, Historian, so I hope you weren't really offended!