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Red Falcon · 12-08-2016, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Not wishing to detract at all from your helpful information, the webpages that I mention, in my posts, that have additional information about the albums sometimes have the same kind of information that you've given. I've noticed that three or four times, at least. In the case of this post of mine today, however, the kind of information that you gave is lacking for some reason. So, thanks.

I saw that as well. I am going to shorten my blurb to just highlight other composers and pieces you might like if you enjoyed the free piece.

Red Falcon · 12-08-2016, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

He's one of my Top 3 composers. The other two are Grieg and Mozart.

My 10 favorites are:

Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Sergei Rachmaninov
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius
Friedrich Chopin
Edvard Grieg
Aaron Copland
Antonín Dvorak
Edward Elgar

I tend to gravitate to the Romantic Period composers who based their compositions off of their native musical traditions.

GtrsRGr8 · 12-08-2016, 09:25 PM

I'm listening, at this moment, to the most recent MP3 classical music giveaway from Classical-music.com. I got word late this afternoon that it had been posted on their website.

It is a vocal piece. I am going to go out on a limb and say that it is four-part harmony. It is 3 minutes and 8 seconds in length.

It is performed by the vocal group Concert Clemens. Carsten Seyer-Hansen is also credited, on the album, with performance of some kind, but I do not know if she actually performs at any place on the particular piece that we can get free.

The free piece is 'Es ist ein Ros' entsprugen, and is taken from an album called There Is No Rose: Christmas in the 21st Century. It apparently is published by a company called Orchid Classics; alternatively, Orchid Classics may be the name of a series of albums published by a music-publishing company with a different name. I just don't know.

The piece was created in the 16th century. It has been arranged (in the modern day, however, I assume) by one Paul Hillier.

"The recording [I assume that this means the piece, not the entire album, but I'm not sure, G] received a five-star review in the Christmas [edition?] of BBC Music Magazine," it is stated in the short description of the piece provided on Classical-music.com's dedicated webpage for the piece/download. Probably not coincidentally to us receiving an offer for this particular piece, "the official website of BBC Music Magazine" is Classical-music.com.

Classical-music.com does require you to have an account in order to download their freebies. If you navigate to this webpage and do not see a bright red button, saying "download now," partially covering the thumbnail of the album cover, that means that you need to log in if you already have an account established. If you don't have an account yet, but want to download the free piece, no worries. You can set up an account and then come back to this webpage to download the piece, after you've logged in for the first time.

GtrsRGr8 · 12-09-2016, 02:27 AM

Today's free YourClassical piece is a rendition of Deck the Hall. The piece is only 47 seconds long.

Despite the fact that it is a traditional Christmas song and it's only 47 seconds long, there's a ton of information about it on YourClassical's dedicated webpage for the free piece. I'm feeling like I'm obligated to share much of it, whether it is helpful or not.

The album cover identifies this as a Naxos album in their "American Classics" series. Here's the rest of what is said on the album cover: "Bruce Adolphe - Chopin Dreams - Seven Thoughts Considered as Music - Piano Puzzlers - Carlo Grante, Piano." About the only thing that I could take away from that is that Carlo Grante plays the piano.

The dedicated Naxos webpage for the album is a little help. The album description says this:
Composer, educator, performer and author Bruce Adolphe has a close affinity with the piano, and he acknowledges the transformative influence of Chopin on the way the instrument has been perceived up until the present day. Chopin Dreams places the Romantic master firmly into modern times, building on his models and imagining him as a jazz pianist or exploring what he might have played at a bar mitzvah. The Piano Puzzlers take Chopin’s style and mix it into what Dick Hyman has called ‘the wittiest and funniest musical parodies imaginable.’ Seven Thoughts Considered as Music are deeply personal and philosophical musical reactions to inspirational thoughts by the great minds of Emerson, Kafka, Rilke, Chief Seattle, Novalis, Heraclitus, and Shankara.
And there's other stuff that you can peruse and read on that webpage.

My opinion about the piece? Someone has taken a nice song and messed it up. It sounds like a jazz piece to me. Deck the Hall is not a jazz song, and it shouldn't sound like one! I feel about the same way as I did when I heard Aretha Franklin butcher the National Anthem at an NFL game last weekend, by dragging the two minute song into about an eight minute one.

However, if you don't believe me or you're a glutton for punishment, you can listen to it by clicking on the stream bar on this webpage. If you want to download it, click on "Direct MP3 download link," located on the same webpage.

As for me, I'm going and deleting this piece of work from my hard drive, right now . . . .

Oh, I guess I should mention that this is the last YourClassical free piece for the week. If they're going to offer us more pieces like this one, I wouldn't care if it was the last.

AnemicOak · 12-09-2016, 03:14 PM

Some free albums for Free Music Friday at the Microsoft Store...

Gwen Stefani --- This Is What the Truth Feels Like

Avenged Sevenfold --- The Stage

Halsey --- Badlands (Deluxe)

2 Chainz --- Collegrove

James Bay --- Chaos and the Calm (Deluxe Edition)

GtrsRGr8 · 12-09-2016, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Some free albums for Free Music Friday at the Microsoft Store...

Gwen Stefani --- This Is What the Truth Feels Like

Avenged Sevenfold --- The Stage

Halsey --- Badlands (Deluxe)

2 Chainz --- Collegrove

James Bay --- Chaos and the Calm (Deluxe Edition)

The only name that I recognized was Gwen Stefani's, but I know that she must be a popular performer. The other ones probably are, too, but I just haven't kept up with what's going on in music today. I'll give them a listen, though. Thanks for posting them!

It seems like Microsoft must be making a conscious effort lately to offer better promotions. Google Play used to have super deals, but it seems like they have tapered off lately. I keep checking them, though.

Purple Lady · 12-09-2016, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Some free albums for Free Music Friday at the Microsoft Store...

Gwen Stefani --- This Is What the Truth Feels Like

Avenged Sevenfold --- The Stage

Halsey --- Badlands (Deluxe)

2 Chainz --- Collegrove

James Bay --- Chaos and the Calm (Deluxe Edition)

That was extremely painful to get. I had to create an account which is fine, but I had to sign in a couple of times before it worked. The first time they wanted me to verify security info, but after I did tapping the free button didn't do anything. I signed out again and when I tapped the free button it wanted name and birth date. And what do you think happened then? The damn free button didn't work again! So I logged in again and the free button offered to download, but it didn't work. I'm on my tablet, so I decided to try Chrome. When I chose view in library it prompted me to install Microsoft Groove. After installation, I could play the album but you can only stream not download. So I uninstalled it. I'll try later on my pc.

Catlady · 12-09-2016, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Purple Lady

That was extremely painful to get. I had to create an account which is fine, but I had to sign in a couple of times before it worked. The first time they wanted me to verify security info, but after I did tapping the free button didn't do anything. I signed out again and when I tapped the free button it wanted name and birth date. And what do you think happened then? The damn free button didn't work again! So I logged in again and the free button offered to download, but it didn't work. I'm on my tablet, so I decided to try Chrome. When I chose view in library it prompted me to install Microsoft Groove. After installation, I could play the album but you can only stream not download. So I uninstalled it. I'll try later on my pc.

See my post above. I was never able to download the entire album at once; I had to do each track separately. Haven't tried this new batch, as nothing there appeals to me.

melmac · 12-09-2016, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The only name that I recognized was Gwen Stefani's, but I know that she must be a popular performer. The other ones probably are, too, but I just haven't kept up with what's going on in music today. I'll give them a listen, though. Thanks for posting them!

It seems like Microsoft must be making a conscious effort lately to offer better promotions. Google Play used to have super deals, but it seems like they have tapered off lately. I keep checking them, though.

I can highly recommend the Halsey one it was one of my favourite releases last year

GtrsRGr8 · 12-09-2016, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by melmac

I can highly recommend the Halsey one it was one of my favourite releases last year

Thx. I'll give it a listen.

GtrsRGr8 · 12-09-2016, 11:23 PM

Naxos has sent out its regular newsletter to subscribers and, if you're a subscriber, I would expect that you have it in your email inbox now. With this newsletter, we get an offer of one of three complete albums, free.

Here are the choices:
Fry: Santa Claus Symphony / Niagara Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites (Transcriptions for Piano 4 Hands)
Handel: Messiah (Highlights)

The procedure to see the choices, and to receive information about them, is simple enough. Open the message. Scroll down to nearly the bottom of the page; if your email program truncates messages, do what you need to do to see the complete page. You'll see thumbnails of album covers, with descriptions to the right of those albums. Immediately after that, you should see a yellowish button that says, "Click Here to Make and Receive Your Choice". Click on it. You'll be taken to a webpage which contains additional information about each album and, on that webpage you'll have an opportunity to make your selection.

As always, Naxos kindly provides the albums in the high-quality flac format (in fact, they give no other choices).

If anyone from Naxos happens to be reading this post (extremely unlikely, I'd say, but who knows?), I would like to express appreciation to you. For you to offer a complete free album, especially of the quality of these, is truly generous of you. Thank you!

Now, for the tough part--deciding which one of the fine free albums to choose!

I've heard seemingly conflicting reports about the following. I have heard that if you are not on the Naxos mailing list by the time that they send out a newsletter, it will be too late for you to take advantage of the free album offer (they make another free album offer (no choices provided--take it or leave it) a week or so prior to this one, which anyone can take advantage of). But, I've also heard that sometimes a person can sign up right after the newsletter is sent out, get the newsletter, and still get in on the month's deal. I don't know which one is correct. If someone has a definitive answer, please share it with us.

If you're not a subscriber, the Naxos homepage seems to be as good as any place on their website to sign up.

Manabi · 12-10-2016, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Naxos has sent out its regular newsletter to subscribers and, if you're a subscriber, I would expect that you have it in your email inbox now. With this newsletter, we get an offer of one of three complete albums, free.

Here are the choices:
Fry: Santa Claus Symphony / Niagara Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites (Transcriptions for Piano 4 Hands)
Handel: Messiah (Highlights)

This is the first month I had trouble choosing. I'm curious about Fry's Santa Claus Symphony, but ultimately went with the Tchaikovsky. Dual piano arrangements of those pieces is pretty neat.

GtrsRGr8 · 12-10-2016, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Some free albums for Free Music Friday at the Microsoft Store...

Gwen Stefani --- This Is What the Truth Feels Like

Avenged Sevenfold --- The Stage

Halsey --- Badlands (Deluxe)

2 Chainz --- Collegrove

James Bay --- Chaos and the Calm (Deluxe Edition)

A good place to check ratings of different works by the musical artists is Wikipedia. If the artist is the least bit popular, there will be a separate article for his/her discography. If the artist is not very popular at all, if the discography appears at all, it will be incorporated with the main article on the person.

Some enlightening information (both of these have dedicated discography articles) at Wikipedia about Stefani and Halsey. Only three singles from Stefani's album charted at all. The highest position on any chart in any country for a single from that album was 52 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stefani_discography).

Halsey had only three singles from her album to chart, too. However, they did quite better. One ranked as high as #18 (U.S. Alternative chart) and the lowest ranking was 37 (in Germany) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halsey_discography).

Of course, people have different tastes in music, and different ideas about what sounds good.

GtrsRGr8 · 12-10-2016, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

<snip>
Well, there's a website, Printable 2017 Calendars where there are just short of a gazillion different "free 2017 calendars that you can download, customize, and print." These calendars are available in PDF and Microsoft Word formats. A handful of them are in color; most are in black-or-white. They are advertisement-free, except for perhaps the name, in small print, of the website from which you got them.

I've done business (if you can call taking freebies from a company "doing business") with this website and its sister websites for probably 20 years. Even if most of their stuff is basically simple and not what you would call "pretty," all that I've gotten from them has been high quality. They do the job.
<snip>

If anyone runs into an issue of some scanner flagging this site as risky, I'd like to put your mind at ease.

A scan using McAfee flagged it as a threat. However, I've had McAfee flag apparently safe sites as risky, before, when they weren't.

Neither WOT (Web Of Trust) or Avast have flagged the site.

As mentioned, I have used this site and its sister sites for years, with no issues whatsoever (I've primarily used the main website--freeprintable.net). All of them are owned by Savetz Publishing, a company which gives all indications of being on the up-and-up/safe.

I guess that it's better to have a safe site flagged as unsafe, than not to be warned about an unsafe site. However, my confidence in McAfee is flagging (pun intended) and I'm close to uninstalling it altogether.

Froide · 12-10-2016, 08:11 PM

Google Play Movies & TV >

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New Free Clash-A-Rama! Clash of Clans TV Show (get the season and watch 2 episodes now)

Clash-A-Rama!

Comedy Animation

CLASH-A-RAMA! is an original comedy series based on your favorite Clash of Clans and Clash Royale characters. CLASH-A-RAMA! takes viewers inside the Village and Arena to see what life is like between battles. From three writer/producers of The Simpsons and Rough Draft Studios, the animation house that brought you Futurama.

12-08-2016, 09:25 PM	#1188
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	I'm listening, at this moment, to the most recent MP3 classical music giveaway from Classical-music.com. I got word late this afternoon that it had been posted on their website. It is a vocal piece. I am going to go out on a limb and say that it is four-part harmony. It is 3 minutes and 8 seconds in length. It is performed by the vocal group Concert Clemens. Carsten Seyer-Hansen is also credited, on the album, with performance of some kind, but I do not know if she actually performs at any place on the particular piece that we can get free. The free piece is 'Es ist ein Ros' entsprugen, and is taken from an album called There Is No Rose: Christmas in the 21st Century. It apparently is published by a company called Orchid Classics; alternatively, Orchid Classics may be the name of a series of albums published by a music-publishing company with a different name. I just don't know. The piece was created in the 16th century. It has been arranged (in the modern day, however, I assume) by one Paul Hillier. "The recording [I assume that this means the piece, not the entire album, but I'm not sure, G] received a five-star review in the Christmas [edition?] of BBC Music Magazine," it is stated in the short description of the piece provided on Classical-music.com's dedicated webpage for the piece/download. Probably not coincidentally to us receiving an offer for this particular piece, "the official website of BBC Music Magazine" is Classical-music.com. Classical-music.com does require you to have an account in order to download their freebies. If you navigate to this webpage and do *not* see a bright red button, saying "download now," partially covering the thumbnail of the album cover, that means that you need to log in if you already have an account established. If you don't have an account yet, but want to download the free piece, no worries. You can set up an account and then come back to this webpage to download the piece, after you've logged in for the first time. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 12-08-2016 at 09:32 PM.

12-09-2016, 02:27 AM	#1189
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Today's free YourClassical piece is a rendition of Deck the Hall. The piece is only 47 seconds long. Despite the fact that it is a traditional Christmas song and it's only 47 seconds long, there's a ton of information about it on YourClassical's dedicated webpage for the free piece. I'm feeling like I'm obligated to share much of it, whether it is helpful or not. The album cover identifies this as a Naxos album in their "American Classics" series. Here's the rest of what is said on the album cover: "Bruce Adolphe - Chopin Dreams - Seven Thoughts Considered as Music - Piano Puzzlers - Carlo Grante, Piano." About the only thing that I could take away from that is that Carlo Grante plays the piano. The dedicated Naxos webpage for the album is a little help. The album description says this: Composer, educator, performer and author Bruce Adolphe has a close affinity with the piano, and he acknowledges the transformative influence of Chopin on the way the instrument has been perceived up until the present day. Chopin Dreams places the Romantic master firmly into modern times, building on his models and imagining him as a jazz pianist or exploring what he might have played at a bar mitzvah. The Piano Puzzlers take Chopin’s style and mix it into what Dick Hyman has called ‘the wittiest and funniest musical parodies imaginable.’ Seven Thoughts Considered as Music are deeply personal and philosophical musical reactions to inspirational thoughts by the great minds of Emerson, Kafka, Rilke, Chief Seattle, Novalis, Heraclitus, and Shankara. And there's other stuff that you can peruse and read on that webpage. My opinion about the piece? Someone has taken a nice song and messed it up. It sounds like a jazz piece to me. Deck the Hall is not a jazz song, and it shouldn't sound like one! I feel about the same way as I did when I heard Aretha Franklin butcher the National Anthem at an NFL game last weekend, by dragging the two minute song into about an eight minute one. However, if you don't believe me or you're a glutton for punishment, you can listen to it by clicking on the stream bar on this webpage. If you want to download it, click on "Direct MP3 download link," located on the same webpage. As for me, I'm going and deleting this piece of work from my hard drive, right now . . . . Oh, I guess I should mention that this is the last YourClassical free piece for the week. If they're going to offer us more pieces like this one, I wouldn't care if it was the last. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 12-09-2016 at 02:36 AM.

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12-09-2016, 03:14 PM	#1190
AnemicOak Bookaholic Posts: 14,391 Karma: 54969924 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +	Some free albums for Free Music Friday at the Microsoft Store... Gwen Stefani --- This Is What the Truth Feels Like Avenged Sevenfold --- The Stage Halsey --- Badlands (Deluxe) 2 Chainz --- Collegrove James Bay --- Chaos and the Calm (Deluxe Edition)

12-09-2016, 11:23 PM	#1196
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Naxos has sent out its regular newsletter to subscribers and, if you're a subscriber, I would expect that you have it in your email inbox now. With this newsletter, we get an offer of one of three complete albums, free. Here are the choices: Fry: Santa Claus Symphony / Niagara Symphony Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites (Transcriptions for Piano 4 Hands) Handel: Messiah (Highlights) The procedure to see the choices, and to receive information about them, is simple enough. Open the message. Scroll down to nearly the bottom of the page; if your email program truncates messages, do what you need to do to see the complete page. You'll see thumbnails of album covers, with descriptions to the right of those albums. Immediately after that, you should see a yellowish button that says, "Click Here to Make and Receive Your Choice". Click on it. You'll be taken to a webpage which contains additional information about each album and, on that webpage you'll have an opportunity to make your selection. As always, Naxos kindly provides the albums in the high-quality flac format (in fact, they give no other choices). If anyone from Naxos happens to be reading this post (extremely unlikely, I'd say, but who knows?), I would like to express appreciation to you. For you to offer a complete free album, especially of the quality of these, is truly generous of you. Thank you! Now, for the tough part--deciding which one of the fine free albums to choose! I've heard seemingly conflicting reports about the following. I have heard that if you are not on the Naxos mailing list by the time that they send out a newsletter, it will be too late for you to take advantage of the free album offer (they make another free album offer (no choices provided--take it or leave it) a week or so prior to this one, which anyone can take advantage of). But, I've also heard that sometimes a person can sign up right after the newsletter is sent out, get the newsletter, and still get in on the month's deal. I don't know which one is correct. If someone has a definitive answer, please share it with us. If you're not a subscriber, the Naxos homepage seems to be as good as any place on their website to sign up.