Arthur Sullivan - The Lost Chord

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Beautiful, thank you for sharing!

thankyou SO Much.

so this is the first song ever huh

Excellent. Steadfast in one linear move but mutating into tonalities in search for all that can be lost.

sounds like inspiration for Leonard Cohens “Halleluia"

i thought it was Gorillaz ... 👹

this was the second song ever recorded!

Straight up bars

And then Rap music came along and that was the death of recorded music

So cool!

I did not know this piece, until a wonderful man named Bert Hatcher, who had been born in England in 1886, sang a bit of it plaintively for us when he was 94! This recording must have been his template. What wonderful memories of this fine and simple man I have, who passed at 96 in 1982. Even 40 years ago, meeting a man who had met Queen Victoria seemed incredible to me. As inconceivable as it being 40 years on now! RIP Bert; you were and have been missed...

This is basically Tenacious D's Tribute :P

As an organist myself, I find this piece charming. Yes it is Victorian and sentimental like some of the Italian operas, but the harmony is skillful and Sullivan wrote differently from his accompaniments to the Savoy operas like the Mikado and the Pirates of Penzance. We shouldn't be snobbish. The nineteenth century and Romanticism formed the revival of Christianity and culture. It was an important era to which we seem to remain more attached than we would like to admit.

Whoops I thought it was the gorrilaz lost chord

Twilight time. Glorious twilight time. Bedtime…

M Driver, below, has sharp ears. This was indeed sung in the key of A major, transposed from F major. I knew the poem as a kid of 14 (grade 9) but had never heard it put to music before now (Oct. 2021).

I got aware of this masterpiece just today by reading a letter from my grandfather in which he wrote about this song and my good Lord! I am simply loving it. This is the kind of composition and singing and lyrics that gets involved in your journey of life. Bravo!

The lost chord - Gorillaz

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Essa música e muito bonita

1888 first song recording

Wack beat

What a treasure! Thanks!

Lol I listen to weird stuff on lsd

this is not bad, but I do prefer the gorillaz version

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wait this isnt gorillaz

I have not heard Webster Booth since the 40s and early 50s when he sang with his wife Anne Ziegler.

Reminds me of PG Wodehouse. Very amusing lyrics set against ridiculously grandiose music. Outsold everything else Sullivan ever wrote apparently.

I GO HARDER, HARDER!

The young Edward Elgar, hoping for a run through of one of his compositions, was turned away at the last minute because the great Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer of this piece of shameless drivel, had unexpectedly come to town. That really makes you stop and think, and in hindsight simply shake your head and marvel.

The record is in A major.

This song helps lay the groundwork for the song "Tribute" by Tenacious D.

What’s the lettering for each note? And is this in c major or e major scale? Thanks :)

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remarkable recording quality for 1939!

the recording is in A.

Somber Victorian sentimentality is a guilty pleasure of mine TBH. I have an antique parlor organ made in the 1880s and love trying to pick out old tunes. I can't play this one but I think of it when I'm messing around with that old instrument.

Thank you for posting this! I was reading my great-great-grandfather's autobiography where he said he really loved this hymn. I think it was partly because he lost several children to illness and World War I. He even translated it into his native Danish.

I searched for this video because Dr. David Jeremiah used it in a sermon illustration.

So this is the song Charles Nelson Reilly mentioned on Match Game.

I am the late child of elderly parents, who in their turn were similar late children, my grandparents were born in the 1880's and all this music was still played at home well into my childhood during the early 1950's - not as a curiosity but for pleasure. It has a power and charm born of its time and I count myself lucky that I knew people who regarded it as part of their youth and musical life.

I think it sounds better at 1.25 speed. But nice listen! 🎶

My old cornet slow melody piece, great to hear it again and brought back many 80s memorys

Doesn't an amen require at least two chords?

The score is written in F Major, but Booth is singing a transposed version in what sounds like A Major. Divine transposition indeed.

I first heard this song on the wonderful Mike Leigh film "Topsy Turvey" and have loved it since. So beautiful!