As I post this video, tomorrow will be Christmas Day, and so ends the Twelve Days Before Christmas series. However...we ???? need a New Years Eve song, and I just may have one coming next week, with a special guest vocalist. "Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called Les Anges dans nos campagnes, with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically the scene in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child. The mid-Sixties pop song, "Sunday Will Never Be The Same" by Spanky and our Gang directly makes use of the chord progression and melody of this song. It's not unusual for this to happen in a song from that era, although it was more common in the early Sixties. The song, "A Lover's Concerto" performed by the Toys used the melody of the familiar "Minuet in G major" from J.S. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, for example. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGmRd7tRcMI

An original piece characterizing an erstwhile girlfriend who did indeed like to drive. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp__NpEHvaI

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The Diminished 7th Chord could not have existed prior to the temperament of the scale. It arose from the Harmonic Minor Scale which was created post-temperament. They deployed this scale almost immediately after a chosen temperament was accepted. It was basically around the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. In fact, Bach himself was involved in the temperament of the scale. Once that was completed, the 12 so-called "Minor Keys" were created giving us now, 24 keys. Ergo, we get his songbook, "The Well Tempered Clavier," in which he wrote music in all 24 Major and Minor Keys in order to demonstrate their usage. This man helped change musical history altogether, and obviously enough, was a genius beyond comparison. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufz-v2vHtSY