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Tune of the Day: Mighty Oregon

“Mighty Oregon” is the song played by the Oregon Marching Band at home football and basketball games. Originally titled “The Mighty Oregon March”, it was written by Director of Bands, Albert Perfect, and was first performed in 1916.

For the song's most popular section, Perfect fashioned a new melody to fit into the harmony from “It's a Long Way to Tipperary”, a hit 1912 World War I march. The catchy popularity of the harmony was not lost on Perfect, a well-educated in music theory, who originally subtitled the song “The Tipperary of the West”. The new march attained rapid popularity: during the next few years, “Mighty Oregon” was published as a solo piano piece, released nationally as a piano roll, and even played by the 162nd Infantry Band in France.

Tune of the Day: The Lasses of Dunse

This melody appears earliest in Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1742) and David Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1756).

The title references the Scottish burgh of Duns in Berwickshire, in the Borders region of southeast Scotland.

Tune of the Day: Study in F major by Andersen

Here is another étude by Danish flutist Joachim Andersen. This “Andante con moto” in F major is study No. 23 from his Twenty-Four Etudes for Flute, Op. 33.

Tune of the Day: Duet in E minor by Hugues

This is duet No. 10 from the first volume of Luigi Hugues's La scuola del flauto (The School of the Flute).

Thanks to Paolo for contributing this piece!

Tune of the Day: Siciliana

The siciliana (or “siciliano”, or “sicilienne”) is a dance often included as a movement within larger works of music starting in the Baroque period. It can be in a slow 6/8 or 12/8 time, with lilting rhythms making it somewhat resemble a slow jig, and is usually in a minor key. It was used for arias in Baroque operas, and often appeared as a movement in instrumental works. The siciliana is traditionally associated with pastoral scenes and melancholy emotion.

The siciliana we present today was written by one of the greatest prodigies in musical history: the Italian baroque composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. It is a slow and gentle piece which has become somewhat popular among flutists and violinists.

Tune of the Day: The Lads of Dunse

The Scottish town of Duns is located in the historic county of Berwickshire, in the Borders region. Directions for the dance to this tune were written down in 1752 by John McGill, dancing master in Girvan (Ayrshire), for his students. McGill is sometimes credited with the composition, although Scottish and English sources predominate, and it was printed in England long before McGill's dance, in John Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1731) as “The Ladds of Dunce”.

Tune of the Day: Study in D major by Gariboldi

This is étude No. 12 from Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Gariboldi's collection of 30 Etudes faciles et progressives.