{"id":5440,"date":"2010-12-26T20:56:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T01:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2010-12-29T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:01:08","slug":"chasing-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=5440","title":{"rendered":"Chasing rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1917 song <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I'm_Always_Chasing_Rainbows target=1>I&#8217;m Always Chasing Rainbows<\/a>, by Harry Carroll and Joseph McCarthy, borrowed its melody from the middle section of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin&#8217;s 1834 <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantaisie-Impromptu target=1>Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been many recordings of this wonderful song by everyone from Bing Crosby to Alice Cooper, but perhaps my favorite was the <a href=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVZgANihxxo target=1>achingly sad rendition by Judy Garland<\/a> in the 1941 film <i>Zeigfeld Girl<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that intrigues me about the candy buttons representation of music is the way it blurs the distinction between musical score and musical instrument.  I&#8217;ve transcribed the first few bars of <i>I&#8217;m Always Chasing Rainbows<\/i> onto a strip of candy buttons.  The image below links to an applet that lets you play the song by moving your mouse across successive rows of candy buttons (it&#8217;s up to you to play with the correct rhythm).<\/p>\n<p>Or you can roam your mouse freely over the applet, using the score as a kind of musical keyboard, to create your own melodies.  The original melody you create will be a kind of collaboration between you, Harry Carroll and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin.<\/p>\n<p>Happy rainbow chasing!!!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/chasingrainbows2 target=1><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/chasingrainbows21.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1917 song<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}