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A Youtube video brought to my attention for different reasons....



I like the rest of the music as well...

I forgot to say: listen from 16:33.

While Jet plays it in A, an easy guitarist's key, Hugh transposes it to Bb. Easier for the woodwind and brass?

If we're talking about tunes used in different musical settings, I've always felt that the Eastenders tune would work with an oom-pah brass band (try humming it to the rhythm of 'Nellie The Elephant').

Oh, yes, and a few years ago when I was doing wedding videos, everyone in the church was waiting for the bride who was running late. The organist was playing quietly in the background, waiting for his cue, and as he'd run out of sheet music he was noodling away and out slipped Matthew Fisher's organ part from A Whiter Shade of Pale. Nobody noticed (except me, I suppose).

RayL wrote:While Jet plays it in A, an easy guitarist's key, Hugh transposes it to Bb. Easier for the woodwind and brass?

If we're talking about tunes used in different musical settings, I've always felt that the Eastenders tune would work with an oom-pah brass band (try humming it to the rhythm of 'Nellie The Elephant').

Oh, yes, and a few years ago when I was doing wedding videos, everyone in the church was waiting for the bride who was running late. The organist was playing quietly in the background, waiting for his cue, and as he'd run out of sheet music he was noodling away and out slipped Matthew Fisher's organ part from A Whiter Shade of Pale. Nobody noticed (except me, I suppose).

It's now many decades ago, but during Mass one Sunday, during Holy Communion, the organist played Greensleeves... not exactly the most diplomatic of instrumental interludes for Mass in a Catholic church because it was reputedly composed by Henry VIII.

The chief parish priest (with the title "Canon") was "on stage" and glanced right down the church, up towards the organ loft, with irritation and even hatred in his eyes.

RayL wrote:While Jet plays it in A, an easy guitarist's key, Hugh transposes it to Bb. Easier for the woodwind and brass?

Yes, well that would be C for the Bb instruments (trumpet, tenor and baritone saxes, clarinet) and F for the Eb mob (mainly alto sax, unless there was a soprano sax in the orchestra).

But Bb for the trombones (which is not a transposing instrument).

RayL wrote:While Jet plays it in A, an easy guitarist's key, Hugh transposes it to Bb. Easier for the woodwind and brass?

If we're talking about tunes used in different musical settings, I've always felt that the Eastenders tune would work with an oom-pah brass band (try humming it to the rhythm of 'Nellie The Elephant').

Oh, yes, and a few years ago when I was doing wedding videos, everyone in the church was waiting for the bride who was running late. The organist was playing quietly in the background, waiting for his cue, and as he'd run out of sheet music he was noodling away and out slipped Matthew Fisher's organ part from A Whiter Shade of Pale. Nobody noticed (except me, I suppose).

Without veering off the subject is the organ part in A Whiter Shade of Pale based on a classical piece ? Mathew Fisher was awarded composes rights for the music in the High Court ,but did he pinch it from somewhere else.

William Lloyd Webber (father of Andrew and Julian) was a Shadows fan and often included their numbers in his voluntaries - Frightened City was a particular favourite...


George

Derek Mowbray wrote:Without veering off the subject is the organ part in A Whiter Shade of Pale based on a classical piece ? Mathew Fisher was awarded composes rights for the music in the High Court ,but did he pinch it from somewhere else.

See here under 'composition':https:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Whiter_Shade_of_Pale

Ulrich

Andrew Lloyd Webber's instrumental piece Variations (written as a feature for his cello-playing brother Julian) includes a sequence that could only have been inspired by FBI.

Euurrrrggggghhhhhh … that was awful. Still, by tuning in a couple of minutes early, I heard a bit of Vaughn Williams so my time wasn't completely wasted.

RayL wrote:Andrew Lloyd Webber's instrumental piece Variations (written as a feature for his cello-playing brother Julian) includes a sequence that could only have been inspired by FBI.

There are many musicologists who will tell you that ALW never wrote an original note of music in his life, but that most of the composers he steals from are dead so can't sue him.