I have a bunch of musical mnemonics I picked up from Mom, who I think got them in elementary school. Do other people know them, or know similar things? Where did you pick them up?
E.g.
Have you heard, of Beethoven's Third?
Morning is dawning and Peer Gynt is yawning da dee da da dee da de dah
and: In the hall of the mountain king, the mountain king, the mountain king. In the hall of the mountain king: the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg
This is, the symphony, that Schubert wrote and never...
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So, I don't have to be profound all the time.
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There's the book _From Bach to Verse_ , which I had as a kid (and think I still may have somewhere). Know it?
E.g. this, to the tune of Händel's Wassermusik:
" 'Have any queries
Turned up a scandal'?
A newspaper series
on George Fredrick Handel"
This is the symphony that Schubert never finished,
Morning is dawning and Peer Gynt is yawning as the birds are all singing on high
d-v-o-r-a-k Dvorak wrote this fanciful capricious composition called the humoresque
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