Immaculate Mary on accordion

This is a very nice religious song that has a very mellow tone . Like and comment below!!!

My Love for You on accordion

This is actually a song that I wrote my self and am very proud of it! Enjoy!



Gil the Instrument Lover

The Waltz of Spain

This is a song that I composed, it bares this title because it reminded me of Spain so here it is!!



Gil the Instrument Lover

Hungarian Dance (Danza Hungara) on accordion

The Hungarian Dances (German: Ungarische Tänze) by Johannes Brahms (WoO 1[1]), are a set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1869.

They vary from about a minute to four minutes in length. They are among Brahms' most popular works, and were certainly the most profitable for him. Each dance has been arranged for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles. Brahms originally wrote the version for piano four-hands and later arranged the first 10 dances for solo piano.[2]

Only numbers 11, 14 and 16 are entirely original compositions. The most famous Hungarian Dance is No. 5 in F♯ minor (G minor in the orchestral version)[citation needed], but even this dance was based on the csárdás by Kéler Béla titled "Bártfai emlék" which Brahms mistakenly thought was a traditional folksong.[



Gil the Instrument Lover

I Dream of Love (Sueno de Amor) on accordion

this is a very beautiful song please comment



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Black Eyes (Ojos Negros) on accordion

The lyrics of the song were written by the Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka. The first publication of the poem was in Literaturnaya gazeta on 17 January 1843.

The words were subsequently set to Florian Hermann's Valse Hommage[1] (in an arrangement by S. Gerdel') and published as a romance on 7 March 1884.

Although often characterised as a Russian gypsy song, the words and music were written respectively by a Ukrainian poet and a German composer: Florian Hermann. Additionally, Hermann's melody bears noticeable resemblance to portions of the Concerto in Esf by Franz Anton Hoffmeister. Feodor Chaliapin popularised the song abroad in a version amended by himself.


Gil the Instrument Lover

The Carnival of Venice (El carnaval de Venecia) on accordion

The Carnival of Venice, is a folk tune[1] popularly associated with the words "My hat, it has three corners." A series of theme and variations have been written for solo trumpet, as "show off" pieces that contain virtuosic displays of double and triple tonguing, and fast tempos.

Many variations on the theme have been written, most notably those by Jean-Baptiste Arban, Del Staigers, Herbert L. Clarke for the cornet, trumpet, Euphonium, Francisco Tarrega and Johann Kaspar Mertz for classical guitar, and Ignace Gibsone for piano. Chopin's "Souvenir de Paganini", dedicated to the composer and violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, is as well a variation on this theme. A more recent piece making use of the theme, by Allen Vizzutti, called "The Carnival of Venus," is regarded as one of the most difficult trumpet pieces ever written due to range and technical demands.[citation needed]

The piece has also been arranged for tuba, notably played by John Fletcher (tubist) and available on the CD The Best of Fletch. Also Roger Bobo (Tubist) on Tuba Libera (cd). Another tubist whose performance of the piece is noteworthy is Øystein Baadsvik, a Norwegian tubist.

And is also played on accordion!!



Gil the Instrument Lover

Waves of Danube (Olas De Danubio) on accordion

"Waves of the Danube" (Romanian: Valurile Dunării; German: Donauwellen; French: Flots du Danube; Russian: Дунайские Волны)[1] is a waltz composed by Iosif Ivanovici (1845--1902) in 1880, and is one of the most famous Romanian tunes in the world. In the United States, it is frequently referred to as "The Anniversary Song",[2] a title given by Al Jolson when he and Saul Chaplin released an adaptation of the song in 1946.[1] "The Anniversary Song" is sometimes confusingly referred to as "The Anniversary Waltz", which is actually the name of a completely unrelated song. As "Waves of the Danube", the song is also confused with the more famous Danube tune "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II.

And played by me on Accordion!



Gil the Instrument Lover

bumbleskate: this was a long time ago but i really like this pi...

bumbleskate: this was a long time ago but i really like this pi...: this was a long time ago but i really like this picture. it's obviously me playing bass. but the lighting looks really cool

Gil the Instrument Lover

New Posts Coming

I've selected a new instrument to play in the Homeschool Band, my choice is the Alto Saxophone.  I will be updating the blog with my adventures of learning a new instrument.  If you have no idea what this instrument is, just think of Kenny G., here is a video of him explaining his line of Saxophone:



Gil the Instrument Lover

Accordion

Here are three video clips of me playing the accordion. I am pretty much self-taught...my dad plays it too since he was a kid. This past summer I did receive some lessons (5-6 of them) to get me going...here is what I am able to do basically solo...my God-given talent:












Gil the Instrument Lover

Instruments!

I play various different instruments,

1. Piano
2. Violin
3. Hand Bells
4. Guitar
5. Accordion (cool right!)
6. And lastly I will commence learning how to play the Saxophone this week!  I'm joining a Homeschool Band and none of the other instruments I play qualify.   So...I have to learn a new instrument (I'm so torn) ;)  I do have to decided which of the two types of Saxophones I will play, Tenor or Alto. 

Post below the different types of instruments you play!

It doesnt matter if you have one or many!

patron saint of music

The patron saint of music is St. Cecilia who sang a song to God before she died 

Here is a picture of this saint:

Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia) is the patron saint of musicians^[2] and Church musicbecause as she was dying she sang to God. It is also written that as the musicians played at her wedding she "sang in her heart to the Lord".^[2] St. Cecilia was an only child. Her feast day is celebrated in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches on November 22. She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. It was long supposed that she was a noble lady of Rome who, with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and a Roman soldier Maximus, sufferedmartyrdom, c. 230, under the Emperor Alexander Severus.^[3]

The research of Giovanni Battista de Rossi,^[4] however, appears to confirm the statement ofVenantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers (d. 600), that she perished in Sicily under EmperorMarcus Aurelius between 176 and 180. A church in her honor exists in Rome from about the 5th century, was rebuilt with much splendor by Pope Paschal I around the year 820, and again by Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati in 1599. It is situated in Trastevere, near the Ripa Grande quay, where in earlier days the ghetto was located, and is the titulus of a Cardinal Priest, currentlyCarlo Maria Martini.

The martyrdom of Cecilia is said to have followed that of her husband and his brother by the prefect Turcius Almachius.^[5] The officers of the prefect then sought to have Cecilia killed as well. She arranged to have her home preserved as a church before she was arrested. At that time, the officials attempted to kill her by smothering her by steam. However, the attempt failed, and she was to have her head chopped off. But they were unsuccessful three times, and she would not die until she received the sacrament of Holy Communion.

Cecilia survived another three days before succumbing. In the last three days of her life, she opened her eyes, gazed at her family and friends who crowded around her cell, closed them, and never opened them again. The people by her cell knew immediately that she was to become a saint in heaven.^[2] When her incorruptible body was found long after her death, it was found that on one hand she had three fingers outstretched and on the other hand just one finger, denoting her belief in the trinity.

The Sisters of Saint Cecilia are a group of women consecrated religious sisters. They are the ones who shear the lambs' wool used to make the palliums of new metropolitan archbishops. The lambs are raised by the Cistercian Trappist Fathers of the Tre Fontane (Three Fountains) Abbey in Rome. The lambs are blessed by the Pope every January 21, the Feast of the martyrSaint Agnes. The pallia are given by the Pope to the new metropolitan archbishops on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, usually in June.