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16 Aug 04 - 05:09 PM (#1248875) Subject: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: axman664 I am planning on doing a concert featuring music of all styles with the theme being "The Universe and Everything in it" or something like that...basically, about the universe, stars, space, the planets, Earth, nature, etc. I will have a bunch of musicians helping, particularly a lot of folk musicians, and am wondering if you mudcatters could help me brainstorm some great folk music (bluegrass, Celtic, Americana, urban folk, etc.) about this topic. The concert would also incldude an astrophysicist-friend-of-mine talking about various images from the Hubble and other telescopes. Should be a lot of fun. To get this started, I had considered the following tunes/pieces: "Lord of the Starfields", "Creation Dream" --Bruce Cockburn Excerpts from "The Planets" --Gustav Holst "Calling the Moon" --Dar Williams Excerpts from "The Creation" --Haydn "Big Mistake" --David Wilcox "Stella by Starlight" (jazz) Any ideas? |
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16 Aug 04 - 05:14 PM (#1248881) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: Clinton Hammond The Universe song from Monty Python! :-) |
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16 Aug 04 - 05:16 PM (#1248883) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: Clinton Hammond oops.. When The Stars Come Down, by Richard Thompson Orion by James Keelaghan... |
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16 Aug 04 - 05:25 PM (#1248893) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: Georgiansilver Across the Universe...John Lennon, The Beatles |
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16 Aug 04 - 05:27 PM (#1248897) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: Clinton Hammond Major Tom, David Bowie! :-) |
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16 Aug 04 - 05:27 PM (#1248898) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: Liz the Squeak Here's a health to the bird in the bush - has the wonderful line, we've tarried here all day, to drink the sun away, let us tarry now and drink down the moon - or something like it. LTS |
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16 Aug 04 - 05:58 PM (#1248924) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: Amos I think you'll find one composition by multiple authors in the Mudcat Song Book on this theme. A |
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16 Aug 04 - 08:46 PM (#1249030) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: Bill D "Bold Orion" --Leo Kretzner |
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16 Aug 04 - 09:31 PM (#1249043) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: rich-joy When the Stars Begin to Fall - a la The Seekers The Dolphins - Fred Neill From a Distance - a la Nanci Griffith Purple People-Eater - Shep Woolley Fly Me to the Moon - a la Sinatra Drink Down the Moon - a la Steeleye Span?? Cheers! R-J |
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17 Aug 04 - 01:45 AM (#1249138) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: The Shambles Wtite the Uni-Verse This was the thread. I had a look but I could not seem to find the finished version in the Mudcat Songbook.............. |
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17 Aug 04 - 03:35 AM (#1249172) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: Splott Man Stick a Little Label On It by (I can't remember), recorded by Wizz Jones and also John James is a witty song that covers it. |
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17 Aug 04 - 05:36 AM (#1249227) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: The Shambles I had another look, when I was more awake - and found it. To write the Uni-verse |
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17 Aug 04 - 10:09 AM (#1249351) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: JennyO How about "Universe's Daughter" by Fay White - I sang it at a session tonight as a matter of fact - also "Message from Mother Earth" by Frankie Armstrong. The words of both of these are on the Ecopella website: here A number of the other songs on this site might also interest you. "Fragile" by Sting is one I love too. Jenny |
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17 Aug 04 - 10:26 AM (#1249366) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: Joe_F Weisst du, wieviel Sterne stehen? Wilhelm Hey Weisst du wieviel Sterne stehen An dem blauen Himmelszelt? Weisst du wieviel Wolken gehen Weithin ueber alle Welt? Gott der Herr hat sie gezaehlet, Dass ihm auch nicht eines fehlet |: An der ganzen grossen Zahl. :| Weisst du wieviel Muecklein spielen In der hellen Sonnenglut? Wieviel Fischlein auch sich kuehlen In der hellen Wasserflut? Gott, der Herr, rief sie mit Namen Dass sie all' ins Leben kamen |: Dass sie nun so froehlich sind. :| 3. Weisst du, wieviel Kinder fruehe Stehn aus ihrem Bettlein auf, Dass sie ohne Sorg und Muehe Froehlich sind im Tageslauf? Gott im Himmel hat an allen Seine Lust, Sein Wohlgefallen, |: Kennt auch dich und hat dich lieb. :| Do you know how many stars have their place in the blue tent of heaven? Do you know many clouds go all over the world? The Lord God has counted them, that not one of their whole great number may be missing. This little children's hymn is quoted at the beginning of Norbert Wiener's _Cybernetics_, to introduce a charming essay on the contrast between astronomy & meteorology as types of science. Also in a pious vein, you might consider the Captain Kidd hymn. |
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17 Aug 04 - 04:08 PM (#1249644) Subject: Lyr Add: GALAXY SONG (Eric Idle & John Du Prez) From: The Shambles My favourite. The Galaxy Song Words by Eric Idle Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough, Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And reolving at nine thousand miles an hour. It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, The sun that is the source of all our power. Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, Are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour, Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars; It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side; It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick, But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide. We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point, We go 'round every two hundred million years; And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe. Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, In all of the directions it can whiz; As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth; And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth! |
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17 Aug 04 - 04:19 PM (#1249660) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: The Shambles If we could see the night sky From our nearest star. It would look much the same, As from where we are. The only difference that would appear, Is just another star in Cassiopeia. (Roger Gall 1998) That's about the size of it.... |
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23 Aug 04 - 02:34 PM (#1254646) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: axman664 Thanks, Shambles, for the Eric Idle tune...that will certainly serve as the centerpiece for the concert!!! -Dan |
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26 Oct 04 - 06:04 PM (#1308025) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: GUEST,Dan Polk I was thinking that this may be good: On a Sea of Fleur de Lis Richard Shindell. |
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19 Nov 04 - 04:56 PM (#1332768) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: GUEST,Remulac "Calling Occupants" by Klaatu "Rocket Man" by Elton John "2001" Theme Moon-Age Daydream by David Bowie |
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19 Nov 04 - 05:48 PM (#1332830) Subject: RE: Music about Universe n' Everything in it From: GUEST There are several Animaniacs songs that deal with the universe and planets. "Its a great big universe" and "the planets song" are two of them that come to mind. |