Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Shapes & Time (Remixes & Reworks), Shapes & Time, Late Nights and Mosquito Bites, Houseplant Music, Room Loops, Music for Museum Gift Shops, Thinking About Thursdays, The Sounds of Spring - EP, and 18 more. , and , . Purchasable with gift card Buy Digital Discography $99.75 USD or more (25% OFF) Send as Gift Buy Disc Share / Embed 1. My Petit Prelude 00:42 buy track 2. Yesterday 01:28 buy track 3. Wake Up Wake Up (free) 06:24 download 4. Leaves Falling 04:12 buy track 5. Puddles On The Playground 03:40 buy track 6. Morning Coffee 05:55 buy track 7. Afternoon Nap (For Pets) 04:45 buy track 8. Pitter Pater Interlude 01:15 buy track 9. Drip Drops Jumping On An Umbrella 07:14 buy track 10. A Miniature Finale 06:14 buy track about "The meandering, atmospheric compositions that make up Little Songs About Raindrops (they're little in scale and scope, not necessarily in length or complexity) branch out from Lullatone's predominantly electronic debut, Computer Recital, to include an impressive collection of toys: a tiny toy metalophone, a toy piano, a toy cassette tape recorder, and a programmable music box, whose glockenspiel-like tones dominate the album nearly as much as computer-generated sine waves did Recital. There's also some accordion, ukulele, viola, and delicately plucked (and rather toy-sounding) acoustic guitar. Virtually all of these instruments seem to personify the titular raindrops, which these songs are not so much "about" as wholly comprised of, figuratively speaking -- and so, come to think of it, do Yoshimi Tomida's vocals, at least on the onomatopoeic "Pitter Patter Interlude." Needless to say, there's a considerable amount of cuteness and whimsy on display here -- but that's not to suggest that this music is simplistic or overly precious. Apart from that admittedly cutesy interlude, the album is largely instrumental (Tomida's vocals appear on three other tracks, but they're either considerably muffled or substantially processed and manipulated), and largely concerned with gently building up layers of sound to create lush and lazy soundscapes that are wistful and winsome but still majestic in their quiet way. If the song titles and instrumentation make the childlike qualities of Lullatone's music inescapable, and perhaps suggest a whiff of gimmicky novelty, the music itself reveals that essence to be much more fundamental -- even performed entirely on "adult" synthesizers and classical instruments and given banal, non-descriptive titles (which these pieces are both abstract and accomplished enough to accommodate), the music's simple beauty and sense of wonder would remain undeniable." allmusic.com $(".tralbum-about").last().bcTruncate(TruncateProfile.get("tralbum_about"), "more", "less"); credits released July 5, 2004 license all rights reserved tags Tags ambient chamber pop electronica indie folk soundtrack 名古屋市 Shopping cart subtotal USD taxes calculated at checkout Check out about Lullatone 名古屋市
We play several instruments during the 45 minute class, and rhythm sticks are one of them. But nothing in my song collection was jumping out at me, so I decided to write a new one. That particular day it had been storming on and off all morning, which inspired Thunder & Raindrops.
When I introduced this song at Church Mice for the first time yesterday, I had the children practice making both thunder and raindrop sounds by playing their sticks on the floor. Thunder was loud, slow and steady, while raindrops were quick and a little softer (or as soft as three-year-olds will play).
The ballad is about a man who tries to convince himself that the tears he is crying since his lover's departure are raindrops since "a man ain't supposed to cry." Clark was reportedly inspired to write the song after a late night drive through a heavy rainstorm. Accordingly, the opening and closing of the song both feature heavy rain and thunder sound effects, with the closing augmented by Clark's powerful, swooping falsetto.
The song peaked at No.2 on the Hot 100 (held back from No.1 by Gary U.S. Bond's "Quarter To Three").[1] On other US charts, "Raindrops" peaked at No. 3 on the R&B chart. Billboard ranked it as the ninth most popular song of the year for 1961.
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.[3][4] The uplifting lyrics describe somebody who overcomes his troubles and worries by realizing that "it won't be long till happiness steps up to greet me."[5][6]
"When the film was released, I was highly critical: How did the song fit with the film? There was no rain. At the time, it seemed like a dumb idea. How wrong I was, as it turned out to be a giant hit."[3]
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Rain is actually quite difficult to record, at least if one desires a natural sound. Given that the microphone setup must be placed outdoors, preferably in a wild area far from human habitations, it must somehow be protected from the rain, but in such a way that the listener does not hear raindrops hitting the microphone setup itself or else hitting an umbrella or other structure placed overhead (as you can imagine, rain hitting an umbrella sounds very unnatural).
Joy: Where are you in the Ozarks? I have some really nice soundscapes from the Leatherwood Wilderness and I always enjoy hanging out in nearby Mountain View, especially when the musicians are doing their thing.
Welcome back, Lang. I closed my eyes and was immediately transported to the woods standing under a tree listening to the rain as it ran and dripped and splashed, soaking the into the ground. I loved it when it slowly stopped!
Jean Sibelius was an influential composer and violinist who, at a young age, created a well-known violin and cello duet called Raindrops. This song from the romantic era is still performed today using a playful plucking method called pizzicato that mimics the cheerful sounds of raindrops.
The great opera composer Benjamin Britten in the 1900s created rain and storm sounds by tapping wooden spoons on various sized mugs that were hung by a string. These are just a few well-known musical examples that were created on the topic of rain.
Rainmaking rituals are still recited today in parts of Africa, Australasia and other areas with people of rich tribal knowledge. Rain music held together with the very theme of human understanding and connection to the natural world.
Pop music giants like The Beatles to The Temptations and Tina Turner had top Billboard hits based on the topic of rain. The rainy chart topper tunes of today are from artists like Adele, Rihanna, Keith Urban and many, many more.
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A beautiful and expressive vocal line accompanied by falling chords which imitate the raindrops as they cascade through the trees, reminding the poet of a fairy orchestra. It's taken from his Seks Dikte (Six Songs) for voice and piano, with words by Holger Drachmann.
At the beginning of Wagner's opera, Siegmund emerges from a raging storm. But unlike many musical storms, Wagner's is made all the more eerie by the notable absence of a full orchestra - it's only the strings that unleash the full force of this tempest, with incredible effect.
This charming song cycle by Finzi sets ten poems by Thomas Hardy, taking its title from the lyrics of the final movement, Proud songsters: "No finches were, nor nightingales, Nor thrushes, But only particles of grain, And earth, and air, and rain."
Britten certainly knew how to write an impressive storm sequence. Ominous booms from the timpani, the sounds of thunder and lightning, and a frenetic tune from the strings characterise the music, taken from his Four Sea Interludes in Peter Grimes.
Delicate raindrops and unexpected storms - Debussy's impressive piano piece captures an April shower and sets it to music. It's part of his 1903 piece, Estampes, and describes a garden in France being caught in the rain.
Brahms' heart-stoppingly powerful violin sonata doesn't sound all that 'rainy', but it's known as the Rain Sonata as each of the three movements borrow the main motif from Brahms' Regenlied, or Rain Song.
Imagine you've been caught in a terrifying storm as you descend a mountain. Strauss captures this emotion with the help of a full orchestra: 12 horns, timpani, a wind machine and thunder sheet provide quite the musical blast.
Crying as the rain drizzles down the window pane is a common idea in pop music, but German Lieder composers also made use of the imagery, like Schubert does in his poignant love song: "Then my eyes filled with tears, And made the mirror ripple. She spoke: "The rain comes, farewell, I am going home."
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