Slava Ukraini! Slava Na Viki! 'Melodia' by a Ukrainian composer...

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1. Beautiful. Thanks for posting.

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2. Glad that you enjoyed. 🫶

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3. I really felt her music connects with her reality-moment.

Honest and reflecting why supporting Ukraine is so important for this world.

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4. Being of Slavic descent (Czechoslovak) and of the Orthodox Tradition of Faith,

it continues to grieve me deeply regarding what I describe as 'fratricide' being perpetrated on the Ukrainian people.
That's not to say I don't grieve for any human who suffers torture, deprivation of life, whose blood is shed because of cruel acts that have demonic roots.

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5. A beautiful tune. Now, I'm looking.

And a Bösendorfer. I was reading Yanaha material before I lucked into a used Clavinova. Yamaha has a deal with them for their sound, and the little one I bought has similar sound.

In fact, the baby grand, should I ever get it tuned (the temperature varies so much here) has a similar sound. A Henry F. Miller, over 100 years old.

I was just warming up/cooling off with the first part of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. A young fellow, son of a friend of my ex, played the first movement. I wasn’t there to hear it. It was in Florida. Why not the slow movement? Well, people gotta wax virtuosic.

Good to see you back. So get this:

What Is the Association Between Music-Related Leisure Activities and Dementia Risk? A Cohort Study
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gps.70163

Here’s the “BAD” news.

Key points
Always listening to music was associated with a 39% reduced dementia risk and better global cognition and memory scores.

Playing an instrument was associated with a 35% reduced dementia risk, but no significant association with CIND risk or changes in cognitive test scores over time.

Regularly engaging in both music listening and playing was associated with a 33% decreased risk of dementia and 22% decreased risk of cognitive impairment no dementia (CIND).

Engagement in music-related activities showed no significant association with subjective cognitive wellbeing.

Music engagement benefits were strongest in those with higher education (16+ years) but showed inconsistent results in the middle education group (12–15 years).

This large prospective cohort study (n = 10,893) suggests music activities may be an accessible strategy for maintaining cognitive health in older adults, though causation cannot be established.

Listen away. Listen all day.
Causation? No doubt the Mozart Effect. Listen all the time and you’ll get plenty of Mozart. Can’t vouch for the others, but there are some good pieces written by others.

Open Access paper/PDF, so I am quoting a bit here.

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6. From The Google

A clavichord is a small, quiet stringed keyboard instrument where a small metal blade called a "tangent" strikes the strings to create sound. The tangent remains in contact with the string as long as the key is held, allowing the player to control the volume and pitch. This intimate mechanism gives the clavichord a wide dynamic and expressive range, and it was popular for practice and composition from the late Middle Ages through the 18th century.

I likey ⬆️. Fond of Baroque sound. Haven't a foggy notion why.

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7. Yikes, a Clavinova (trademark) , not a clavichord.

Electronic Piano with good sound and touch. I got my first one, a Roland, when my wife was working odd shifts, so I could play with headphones on.

I mentioned it to her recently, and she was unaware of that fact. First, that means that the idea was perfect.

Second, i think she thought it was a big splurge at the time. Still works (The Roland) but the levers break now and then, and I use epoxy resin to repair them.

The newer Yamaha does have a harpsichord voice among others, so I got out the Baroque scores. Did you ever hear DeKoven on the radio? He played baroque and rococo, and called it Barococo. He would shout out "VIVA VIVALDI"

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8. Kick, I found it!

The piano score can be found towards the bottom of the page.

https://musopus.net/melody-melodiya-myroslav-mykhaylovych-skoryk/

Enjoy.

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9. I hit an arrow on an ad to slide it up out of the way, n next message

said my PDF app damaged, to download here. This same thing shows up online in various places.
I did not of course

Clicking on the link brings me to install an app to listen to the selection.

I'm tech challenged.

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10. Thou shalt use ad-blockers.

At the very least, understand that many ads deliver malware.

That said, here goes. I was not at the computer, where this is a zillon percent easier.

DON'T CLICK ON ANYTHING UNLESS I SAY IT'S SAFE





Postimages shrunk them a bit, but 100K per page should print and view OK.

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11. Bucatini!

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12. It's all Greek to me.

But I can barely piece out Cyrillic with my limited knowledge of Greek from math and astronomy,

Still can't figure that backwards 3
Dyslexic e?

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13. Nitey nite! 🫡 😴