09-19-2016, 02:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2016, 02:48 AM by Eric the Green.)
(09-19-2016, 02:02 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: That's how musicians got around. Not aircraft or motor-coaches as they now do. Not horse-drawn carriages as they might have four decades earlier. Not by gondola (inspiring the many barcarolles) in the canals of Venice. Not steamships on the Mississippi River. Take the A Train refers to an elevated train... to Harlem?
That must be the thing....
Quote:Horses offered the clip-clop that one often hears in Strauss waltzes. Jet aircraft might offer some monotonous sound not suggesting any music at all. I can't imagine anyone getting musical inspiration from a jet engine. A motorcycle? No sonic charm. Space craft? Submarines? Ludicrous. Trains? The regular chugging of the locomotives and the irregular whistles make some musical suggestions.That's got that swing.
I dunno tho; the national #1 hit song of 1967 featured a jet plane sound at the end.
Quote:This is a 1944 recording of a work with some very different culture behind it... It is definitely inspired by the sounds of a locomotive.
What song are you referring to? The video does not play.
Quote:Were I a composer I might think of a toy train with stations in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Monterrey. There has never been such a railroad, but no child is ever going to let that reality squelch such an imagination.
Our railroad goes from SF to San Jose, and long ago we had a railroad from San Jose to Santa Cruz. There are railroad tracks along the Santa Cruz Boardwalk too. There was a proposal to bring back the train to Santa Cruz, but it was blocked because mountain residents didn't want the noise.