tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post3413483643471421968..comments2024-01-03T03:28:48.980-07:00Comments on mugwump Chronicles: Me and DaveMugwumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01487540636265322556noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-39256306142461457362010-01-10T07:32:38.145-07:002010-01-10T07:32:38.145-07:00Here's a website database of music. You can se...Here's a website database of music. You can search beats per minute, or by walk, trot, canter. <br /><br />http://www.equimusic.com/index.phpNancy (aka Tony's person)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16570185865930827411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-57566151504544294282010-01-01T12:06:03.480-07:002010-01-01T12:06:03.480-07:00Loved this story and the music...Take Five & E...Loved this story and the music...Take Five & El Carretero. One of the things I liked best about drill team was the music...it can just take you away!<br /><br />Dancing is my second passion...the rhythm and beat...the syncopation. <br /><br />I equate riding with dancing...rider leading the horse in the dance.<br /><br />I like the PlayList idea too!gtyyuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02402170522183324256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-51715051413911704142010-01-01T03:49:02.573-07:002010-01-01T03:49:02.573-07:00Thanks for this post! I've been starting to co...Thanks for this post! I've been starting to collect music to ride to after I listened to, of all things, "Sleigh Ride." The beat just spoke to me and I am convinced I want to add music into my riding. Please do post songs or a list of music!Nancy (aka Tony's person)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16570185865930827411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-77899351963116849792009-12-31T16:22:32.428-07:002009-12-31T16:22:32.428-07:00Oh, that is a good one, Mugs! Did no know about th...Oh, that is a good one, Mugs! Did no know about the background, though.<br />Thanks for another wonderful story!HorseOfCoursehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15907659164579327290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-36559567094033333772009-12-31T14:38:37.000-07:002009-12-31T14:38:37.000-07:00What an amazing post! Wonderful...What an amazing post! Wonderful...Shansterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04397551985965117012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-33862713799507801992009-12-31T14:32:32.780-07:002009-12-31T14:32:32.780-07:00Love Take Five, too. I like to listen to jazz, bu...Love Take Five, too. I like to listen to jazz, but I think that would stick, too. If for nothing else, the lesson learned.phaedra96https://www.blogger.com/profile/13073887491311158448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-374997754780712192009-12-31T14:14:00.723-07:002009-12-31T14:14:00.723-07:00I used to take my Percheron mares out for a drive....I used to take my Percheron mares out for a drive. We had a long lane and they walked out to the end and onto the road and then hit a road trot. Just swinging along and a song popped into my head--Let's go to Vegas--I do not know who sings it or even why but I always remember those drives when I hear that song. Funny.phaedra96https://www.blogger.com/profile/13073887491311158448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-6392142838992198432009-12-31T12:58:09.087-07:002009-12-31T12:58:09.087-07:00The older gentleman that I used to ride with alway...The older gentleman that I used to ride with always used to ask... Do you love to dance? He loved to dance and was one of the best dancers and riders I have ever had the privilege to ride with. He felt that riding horses and dancing were much the same. That goes along with music, riding and rhythm. <br /><br />My daughter was about 15 and we were at a family get together. She says "David, play something from Gershwin". He immediately, without hesitation starts playing a beautiful piece of music. I wouldn't have known if it was or wasn't Gershwin. But she immediately named the piece and was very delighted with herself and with him. He played without sheet music, without as much as a thought about it. <br /><br />I asked him how it is that he just knows what keys, what tempo, how does it come to him. His answer was - how do you just know how to ride.horsegeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08614136458074519322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-48175126671011554312009-12-31T11:33:10.329-07:002009-12-31T11:33:10.329-07:00cruisinlight- what a great piece of music!
We shou...cruisinlight- what a great piece of music!<br />We should start a playlist of horsaii music. <br />I could put it up on the side somewhere.....<br />badges- I'm sure horses and the arts are linked, always have been.<br />stilllearning- He never told me a thing...but I know now he knew.Who knows what was going on in his head, probably no more than, "Hmmmm, I know I have some horsey music around here somewhere..."<br />anon and kel- I think there is an extremely close relationship between music and horses. It has something to do with the movement and rhythm. Anon needed horses more than music, but I bet Kel's cousin gets the same satisfaction on trhe piano as we do on the horses.mugwumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00319060800328355056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-76628537781873918132009-12-31T11:13:05.088-07:002009-12-31T11:13:05.088-07:00Mugs... you just put a big smile on my face. Than...Mugs... you just put a big smile on my face. Thank you. And <b>HAPPY NEW YEAR</b>!Heilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10115300526657295504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-43335784848394044892009-12-31T09:47:23.094-07:002009-12-31T09:47:23.094-07:00That is a great piece of music. A couple of local ...That is a great piece of music. A couple of local dressage riders do a choreographed ride to it and it is beautiful. Thanks for sharing its roots with us. <br /><br />My cousin plays jazz piano. When he was younger he played for Lena Horn. Now he has his own inn and resturant in Germany and he plays there and does concerts around Germany and Denmark. I love to watch him play. He is a different person behind the piano. He seems very content and comfortable, very much in control and his movements are so fluid and effortless. Do you think that is how other people see those of us who are passionate about horses?horsegeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08614136458074519322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-36072903985591403292009-12-31T07:03:15.795-07:002009-12-31T07:03:15.795-07:00Mugwump, I loved this story!!! I spent all my time...Mugwump, I loved this story!!! I spent all my time growing up playing music, but dreaming nonstop of horses. I eventually went and got a degree in piano. While I was at university, I finally came to my senses, stopped wasting time not doing the things I loved, and started riding like I had always wanted. Now I'm the proud owner of my first horse, at 25 years old.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-69580354097409482742009-12-31T06:06:25.581-07:002009-12-31T06:06:25.581-07:00Did your music teacher ever explain the connection...Did your music teacher ever explain the connection between this piece and your love of horses? Or did he just let the music speak to you without any explanation?<br /><br />Pretty cool either way, but how cool if he appealed to your horsaii senses to get you further hooked on music.stilllearninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15917159268881119376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-18163175188244660762009-12-30T21:31:28.401-07:002009-12-30T21:31:28.401-07:00thanks - that was awesome.thanks - that was awesome.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02207511812539428379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-57287733134884042862009-12-30T20:23:35.247-07:002009-12-30T20:23:35.247-07:00Take Five is a great tune! We played it in our jaz...Take Five is a great tune! We played it in our jazz band in high school. It's one of the few jazz tunes that I like, too many are too free form for me. I like a melody repeated in there somewhere. We also played Big Band music and I am still a fan. I think it's important to somehow keep music and art in schools so lots of kids can learn to enjoy things they might never have access to. I didn't think of Take Five as a riding song though!i know nothingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-76449998813195520342009-12-30T19:34:45.138-07:002009-12-30T19:34:45.138-07:00Cool post! I've heard of Dave Brubeck before,...Cool post! I've heard of Dave Brubeck before, and I have heard the music called "Take Five" many times. How wonderful to know how it ties in with horses and with you. I'll never hear it again without thinking of both.wilsonchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085470527006328839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-51577794055817494502009-12-30T18:44:08.769-07:002009-12-30T18:44:08.769-07:00Mugwump, I love your posts. Hope you don't min...Mugwump, I love your posts. Hope you don't mind if I add another piece of music. This is one of my favorite songs, Cuban music from the 1950's. One of the lines in the song is "A caballo vamos pa'l monte"--meaning, we are going to the mountain by horseback. You can feel the beat of horses' steps in the music. <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnPcNs4D5V8cruisinlightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-17791916936876380052009-12-30T16:46:49.104-07:002009-12-30T16:46:49.104-07:00That's so great! I remember the first time I h...That's so great! I remember the first time I heard Dave Brubeck and Take Five, it may have been one of the first albums I ever bought, I loved it so.<br /><br />Wonderful story, and great tie-in. We have the Kennedy Center Awards on tape to watch tonight, I'm looking forward to it even more, now.Scamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04236918959046980355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-6282190512971999682009-12-30T16:30:45.480-07:002009-12-30T16:30:45.480-07:00Awesome story!
And my favorite line:
"I don&...Awesome story!<br /><br />And my favorite line:<br />"I don't remember the boy's name, but the horse was named Pepper."<br /><br />Truly you are horsaii as well as jazzaii.AareneXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17569818745110332355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-55368506686597047562009-12-30T16:28:50.147-07:002009-12-30T16:28:50.147-07:00I should have wrote WRITE poems, not DO poems... l...I should have wrote WRITE poems, not DO poems... lolcrochetyoleladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10558947029662564330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-46662271562192676572009-12-30T16:27:57.994-07:002009-12-30T16:27:57.994-07:00dam, no speakers at work.. Will check it out the m...dam, no speakers at work.. Will check it out the min I get home. I wonder.... It seems that a lot of people who are "into" horses also have artistic talent of some kind. I draw, and do poems...(used to play piano). I wonder if horses and artistic talent are linked somehow?crochetyoleladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10558947029662564330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-71270580168419978342009-12-30T15:58:23.111-07:002009-12-30T15:58:23.111-07:00Know what is funny now that I actually listened to...Know what is funny now that I actually listened to this song, I randomly get it stuck in my head but I never knew who it was by until now. Weird.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523660446608394720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-69069831425012601772009-12-30T15:56:00.628-07:002009-12-30T15:56:00.628-07:00Cool post, Mugs. I stumbled into jazz myself - my ...Cool post, Mugs. I stumbled into jazz myself - my freshman year of high school I wound up about a half hour early the first week of classes, and where else to go but the band room? I ended up listening to the jazz bands, who rehearsed before regular classes started. The director invited me to join as there was an open trumpet spot in one band, and there I was. <br /><br />Played all four years and really enjoyed it. So much more relaxed than wind ensemble, but not careless - you had to really listen to the other people. I always liked how good jazz was more of a conversation than anything.manymisadventureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00269126419483167938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-1467859359670100782009-12-30T15:55:47.955-07:002009-12-30T15:55:47.955-07:00Wow that is incredible. I bet that hit ya when you...Wow that is incredible. I bet that hit ya when you found out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523660446608394720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-39404109937092108042009-12-30T15:19:37.698-07:002009-12-30T15:19:37.698-07:00I added a link on the end of the post, great idea ...I added a link on the end of the post, great idea -thanks lopinon4!mugwumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00319060800328355056noreply@blogger.com