Here’s a famous moment from Paul Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
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Which consisted of a series of piece of classical pieces with Disney animation interpretations. Which was their modern take on the 1940 Fantasia In 2000, Disney Studios released a film called Fantasia 2000, (We also recommend a very unusual rendition of the piece. We wonder if Bifur and Bofur could play like that! (Here’s a LINK so you can hear that recording for yourself.) Even if you don’t read music, you can see (and hear) that it begins with a clarinet doing a long trill, then playing a glissando, meaning a slide, up several octaves. Playing the opening of George Gershwin’s (1898-1937)
When we think of clarinets, the first thing which comes into our minds is the famous 20 th-century clarinetist, Benny Goodman (1909-1986)
Well, Middle-earth is more or less a medieval world and medieval musicians played stringed instruments and drums and flutes, both transverse (like a modern flute) and recorders, as well as certain other wind instruments, but clarinets? “Kili and Fili rushed for their bags and brought back little fiddles Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats Bombur produced a drum from the hall Bifur and Bofur went out too, and came back with clarinets that they had left among the walking-sticks.” (“An Unexpected Party”) Anderson, The Annotated Hobbit, 47, note 35) but decided against it. In the 1966 edition, Tolkien changed “tomatoes” to “pickles” and considered changing that engine whistle to “like the whee of a rocket going up into the sky” (see Douglas A. Tolkien scholars have long noticed that the 1937 Hobbit has a certain number of anachronisms-as did JRRT himself.Īs have we, too, in past postings, including one on popguns