Contrasting Periods :: Uke-uler Option :: July

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Filed Under Music Theory, Music on Thursday, July 24th 2008

Last Friday Wes over at Walk in Brain made a post with a video of the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain.

I enjoyed that performance so much that I went on a bit of a binge and watched a bunch of their stuff on YouTube. Besides their version of “Shaft”, this is among my favorites:

It reminds me of the “Pachelbel Rant” that gives my theory students a good laugh each and every spring. In fact, I might start my theory class this fall with this, just to introduce my long running teaching point about the need to understand what is similar about different pieces of music so that we can really get to the essence of what makes each of them unique.

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