In celebration of the birthday of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), here is a hornpipe from The Water Music, composed in 1717.
bluebird of bitterness
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Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's sister-in-law Sybil
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness⢠(no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitterâ˘, the beer they named for Bob
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Wonderful!
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I love Handel. The man never wrote a bad note in his entire life.
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Well none that we got to hear at any rate đ
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I am completely gobsmacked! That is amazing! I’ve never seen anything so mighty and majestic
I am going to save this , or find the complete work and watch it whenever I need a boost, and at my age that’s every day!
Thanks BoB for sharing
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Some Classical music selections are, to me, very boringâŚ.too structured, too dull.
Others, however, reach heights of musical lyricism which for me are enthralling, entrancing, not hypnotizing but close to it.
This item (Water Music) is, to use Janeâs term: âAn old War Horseâ. It has been played and replayed. But deservedly so. It is musically appealing. It has a brisk cadence or rhythm. All the instruments get their fair share of âplaying timeâ.
Sometimes itâs good to have a piece such as this in the music library to trot out when one has just endured (by accident) 30-45 seconds of loud amusical banging and bashing instrumentation accompanied by caterwauling human voices.
Dick
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