Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Learning Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

I hear a lot of music in my head. I do not think this is psychotic. I think this is brain memory.  I can hear the music and dialogue for several musicals that I love, including "My Fair Lady," "West Side Story,"  "Fiddler on the Roof," and "Guys and Dolls."  To a lesser extent, I can hear a lot of the music for "Oklahoma," "South Pacific," "White Christmas," and "Holiday Inn." I can almost repeat the music and dialogue for most of these movies. Repetition and valuation has provided me with the knowledge and familiarity I have.

There are a lot of classical musical pieces that I really enjoy, but most recently, I have decided that I want to learn Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.  This is a wonderful piece that the United States has adopted as an accompaniment to the Independence Day fireworks displays at various places across the nation. I would like to play it in my head.

So, I will listen to it more and more so I can start learning it the way I have learned other musical pieces. 

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