CHILDREN’S RHAPSODY

At times the children love always to hear the same fables or the same musics. So, when my children had, as a present, a cassette containing songs as “Old McDonald had a farm” or “The three piglets”, for some time they wanted to listen nothing else. Exhausted from this huge torture, always tormented from the same melodies, I hoped to be able to at least vary them.
The attempt miserably failed (woe to change a note of a music or a word of a fable: the childrens don’t appreciate the variations); however the result has been this rhapsody just based on melodies of songs for children (besides the two already quoted, there is a reference to “Hooray for tomato soup”).
The piece, in dorian mode and mainly based on fourth chords , is rich of dissonances, you use nevertheless in very hard way in comparison to the first variation on a theme of Gino Palumbo. The result is, also thanks to the rhythm of the piece, a little jazz.

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