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GtrsRGr8 · 03-10-2017, 02:08 AM

Naxos publishes an album called Sarasate - Spanish Dances - Serenata Andaluza - Balada. YourClassical is able to offer us, free, one of the pieces from the album. That piece is Pablo de Sarasate - Serenade andalouse. The free offer is good through this weekend.

All of the pieces on the album feature Tianwa Yang on the violin and Markus Hadulla on the piano. No conductor is mentioned (none may be necessary since this is a duet).

Find out lots more about the entire album, the artists, and maybe a bit or two more about the free piece, than I'll be giving here, by pointing your browser to here. That is the dedicated Naxos webpage for the album.

Our free piece is 6 minutes, 47 seconds long, and is formatted in MP3 as always is the case with these YourClassical giveaways. You can stream it at this dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece. Alternately, or additionally, you may download the piece, again freely, from the same webpage by clicking on "Direct MP3 download link."

The piece is a good one. Having said that, it's not one that I think that I would listen to casually. It has lots of changes in speed, volume, etc. I can see it being an excellent piece to accompany a Spanish dance, as it apparently was written for, and I would enjoy seeing a Spanish dance group dance in accompaniment to the song. Oh, and it would be nice to have several plates of tapas at the table to munch on while I'm watching and listening. Yum.

TrevorViking · 03-11-2017, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Amazon Prints -- exp 12 Mar

Wow, that's a steal!

I recently downloaded all my phone's photos into the free amazon photo cloud. Picking 100 photos and completing the order for $1 took maybe 4 minutes.

tubemonkey · 03-11-2017, 03:33 PM

Alexa Voice Shopping -- exp 20 Mar

FREE -- $5 Amz Promo Code -- when you reorder w/ Alexa --> Prime members only

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• Purchase must be for the reorder of a physical product. The current product must be purchased for $5 or more via Alexa Voice Shopping on an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, Amazon Fire TV, or Fire tablet device on or before March 20, 2017.
• Taxes, shipping and handling, and gift wrap charges do not apply when determining minimum purchase amount.
• For qualifying purchases, a $5 Amazon.com Promo Code will be emailed to the account associated with the qualifying purchase within about seven (7) days of purchase.
• Shipping charges and taxes may apply to discounted and free promotional items.
• Limit one $5 Amazon.com Promo Code per customer and per device.
• Amazon.com Promo Code expires at 11:59 p.m. (PT) December, 31, 2017.
• Amazon.com Promo Code only applies to products sold by Amazon.com.
• This is a limited time offer and good while supplies last.
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• Amazon.com Promo Codes are non-transferable and Amazon.com Promo Codes may not be resold.
• If you violate any of these terms and conditions, the promotion will be invalid.
• Void where prohibited.
• Amazon reserves the right to modify or cancel the promotion at any time.
• Offer does not apply to digital content.
• The maximum benefit you may receive from this offer is $5.
• You will receive an e-mail from Amazon that indicates the dollar amount of the Amazon.com Promo Code. The e-mail will also provide instructions on how to redeem the Promo Code.
• This offer is available to Prime members only.
• Unless an Amazon Gift Card is the stated benefit of the promotion, promotional codes (including those placed directly in accounts) may not be redeemed for Amazon Gift Cards.

GtrsRGr8 · 03-11-2017, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

Wow, that's a steal!

I recently downloaded all my phone's photos into the free amazon photo cloud. Picking 100 photos and completing the order for $1 took maybe 4 minutes.

Congratulations! That is/was a great deal.

Digital photography definitely is great. And when or where could you have had 100 analog photos developed for $1! Never.

It occurs to me, though, that there are times when digital is not necessarily better than analog.

People take photos on their digital camera. Then, when they're through, they take the little card out and put it in their computer (or download the photos via cable). From their computer, they send the digital info to Amazon or somewhere else, or take the chip to their local Walgreens or CVS for turning the digital information into physical prints.

In the analog days, they took their photos. Then they took the roll of film somewhere to be developed, and picked up the prints, usually within 2 or 3 days (or, if they were impatient, some places could do developing in-house, for a substantially higher price).

And, I don't know what the situation is now, but at one time you could get superior photo quality with an analog camera, dollar-for-dollar.

Tell me, which is superior? (Rhetorical question).

Yes, I'm well aware of the advantages of digital photography. To me, the greatest is that you can endlessly preview shots until you get one like you want it. If you decide that the photo is still not quite right, you can fix a lot, after the fact, with photo software.

If my father was still living, you could ask him about the advantage of being able to preview shots. He and Mom took a 2-week tour to Israel, Egypt, and Italy, about 30-35 years ago. Dad took along his 35 mm analog camera, which had served him well for years, and snapped photos left and right. When he got home and tried to have them developed, there was . . . nothing! Come to find out the shutter was sticking or something.

In retrospect, he should have tested the camera to make absolutely sure that the camera worked, for this once-in-a-lifetime trip, by taking a roll of film and trying to have it developed before he left. Hindsight is 20/20. (The good news--a fellow that I know, who had also gone on this same trip, took a huge number of photos. He was going to cull out the ones that he didn't want and keep an album of just what he considered the best shots. Long story short--I got in contact with him and he sent me all of the culls. They looked fine, for the most part. An important part of the trip was salvaged).

Speaking of hindsight. I didn't anticipate the move to digital photography. Or, at least, that things would change so quickly. In the late 90's, after having been wanting a 35 mm camera for quite some time, I bought a new (analog) Canon EOS Rebel 35 mm camera. It was pretty expensive. Of course, it became almost obsolete soon after that, when digital cameras flooded the market. I didn't have the money to turn around and buy a digital camera then that would produce quality equal to the analog 35 mm that I had just bought. Despite the advantages that I see with analog, if I had foreseen how pervasive digital photography was about to become, the particular advantages of it, etc. I would have waited and gone digital.

I took the analog camera with me to the Philippines on a couple of trips in 2000, and got some shots that really turned out great. A year or two later, I bought an inexpensive Kodak (they don't even make cameras anymore), and the quality of the photos is fine for my purposes now.

copyrite · 03-11-2017, 07:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Alexa Voice Shopping -- exp 20 Mar

FREE -- $5 Amz Promo Code -- when you reorder w/ Alexa --> Prime members only

Terms & Conditions

Spoiler:

In order to qualify for the Alexa Shopping $5 Amazon.com Promo Code Offer, you must: (1) be an Amazon Prime member and (2) reorder a physical product of at least $5 through Alexa Voice Shopping on your Alexa enabled device between March 10, 2017, and March 20, 2017, 11:59 PM (PT) while supplies last.

• Purchase must be for the reorder of a physical product. The current product must be purchased for $5 or more via Alexa Voice Shopping on an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, Amazon Fire TV, or Fire tablet device on or before March 20, 2017.
• Taxes, shipping and handling, and gift wrap charges do not apply when determining minimum purchase amount.
• For qualifying purchases, a $5 Amazon.com Promo Code will be emailed to the account associated with the qualifying purchase within about seven (7) days of purchase.
• Shipping charges and taxes may apply to discounted and free promotional items.
• Limit one $5 Amazon.com Promo Code per customer and per device.
• Amazon.com Promo Code expires at 11:59 p.m. (PT) December, 31, 2017.
• Amazon.com Promo Code only applies to products sold by Amazon.com.
• This is a limited time offer and good while supplies last.
• Amazon.com Promo Codes may be used only for the purchase of eligible goods on Amazon.com.
• Amazon.com Promo Codes are non-transferable and Amazon.com Promo Codes may not be resold.
• If you violate any of these terms and conditions, the promotion will be invalid.
• Void where prohibited.
• Amazon reserves the right to modify or cancel the promotion at any time.
• Offer does not apply to digital content.
• The maximum benefit you may receive from this offer is $5.
• You will receive an e-mail from Amazon that indicates the dollar amount of the Amazon.com Promo Code. The e-mail will also provide instructions on how to redeem the Promo Code.
• This offer is available to Prime members only.
• Unless an Amazon Gift Card is the stated benefit of the promotion, promotional codes (including those placed directly in accounts) may not be redeemed for Amazon Gift Cards.

Thanks, Mr Monkey! Took her a while to figure out what I was trying to say, but I purchased another sealing ring for my Instant Pot so my oatmeal won't taste like chili powder.

GtrsRGr8 · 03-12-2017, 05:24 PM

EMusic's free download of the day today is a winner, IMHO.

I still can't understand why eMusic puts particular songs under the rubrics that it does. They say that the "genre" of this song is "Alternative/Punk" and the "styles" is/are "Alternative." I'll be honest--the problem may lie with me more than it does eMusic--maybe I don't really know what those genres or styles encompass nowadays. But, to me, the song sounds like metal (nothing extreme) rock of some kind.

As far as the quality of the sound and of the band are concerned, they are very similar to some of the ones that I heard on the radio in the mid and late 00's (2004-2009 or so). They are honestly that good, IMHO.

Song: Machu Picchu (New Small Town)
Artist: Ben Davis
Album: Charge It Up!
Label: Lovitt Records
Genre: Alternative/Punk
Styles: Alternative

Get it here.

I regret that I am so late in the day posting this. I "always" am awake when eMusic posts a new freebie, between 12 midnight and 1 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time. Inevitably, for the first few hours after they make a new post, however, you can't get the download to happen. A button shows "Download free track," and some kind of activity results when you click it, but the download doesn't occur. And I'm not going to post an item from eMusic unless I can hear it and know that it is a good one. So, that means that I have to post late in the giveaway period (I do have to

sometime, you know).

Here are a couple of customer support webpages at eMusic in case you want to complain:
Report downloading issues.
Submit feedback.

Purple Lady · 03-12-2017, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

EMusic's free download of the day today is a winner, IMHO.

I still can't understand why eMusic puts particular songs under the rubrics that it does. They say that the "genre" of this song is "Alternative/Punk" and the "styles" is/are "Alternative." I'll be honest--the problem may lie with me more than it does eMusic--maybe I don't really know what those genres or styles encompass nowadays. But, to me, the song sounds like metal (nothing extreme) rock of some kind.

As far as the quality of the sound and of the band are concerned, they are very similar to some of the ones that I heard on the radio in the mid and late 00's (2004-2009 or so). They are honestly that good, IMHO.

Song: Machu Picchu (New Small Town)
Artist: Ben Davis
Album: Charge It Up!
Label: Lovitt Records
Genre: Alternative/Punk
Styles: Alternative

Get it here.

I regret that I am so late in the day posting this. I "always" am awake when eMusic posts a new freebie, between 12 midnight and 1 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time. Inevitably, for the first few hours after they make a new post, however, you can't get the download to happen. A button shows "Download free track," and some kind of activity results when you click it, but the download doesn't occur. And I'm not going to post an item from eMusic unless I can hear it and know that it is a good one. So, that means that I have to post late in the giveaway period (I do have to

sometime, you know).

Here are a couple of customer support webpages at eMusic in case you want to complain:
Report downloading issues.
Submit feedback.

Metal? That sounds like pure pop to me. I like metal.

GtrsRGr8 · 03-12-2017, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

Metal? That sounds like pure pop to me. I like metal.

You very well might be right. I have admitted my ignorance and doubts. I think that from now on, I'll just put down the information as eMusic gives it, and do so without comment. Of course, fellow MobileReaders like yourself are welcome to give responses.

GtrsRGr8 · 03-13-2017, 01:47 AM

It's Monday, and that means the beginning of a 5-day week (M-F) of free classical pieces from YourClasssical!

The week starts off with a free rendition of Keyboard Sonata In A Major, K.208, a piece composed by Domenico Scarlatti. This rendition is a piano only piece, with Yevgeny Sudbin doing the tickling of the ivories.

The free piece is one of 18 sonatas on an album from music publisher BIS, called Scarlatti - 18 Sonatas - Yevgeny Sudbin. No dedicated webpage for the entire album is apparently supplied for us this time.

The free 3 minute, 59 second piece is very pleasant, I think. I use the word "becalming" a lot, but that's how I would describe this piece.

Invariably, the free download that we are offered each day is in the MP3 format, and today's is no exception. If you will navigate to this dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece, you will have the option to stream the piece and/or download it (click on the link that says "Direct MP3 download link").

I'm already looking forward to finding out what tomorrow's free piece will be!

GtrsRGr8 · 03-14-2017, 02:16 AM

Another weekday, another offer by YourClassical of a free classical music piece.

Today's freebie comes from the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. The album that the free piece comes from is a Naxos album of his works, entitled Grieg - Norwegian Dances - Ballade Slatter (Suite for Orchestra).

The particular piece that we are allowed to grab for free is a 4 minute, 19 second piece called Lyric Pieces, Book 5: No. 6 Ringing Bells.

Everything on the album is performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with Bjarte Engeset conducting. Of course, some of you may wish to know much more about the album than that. If so, you're in luck. YourClassical has a link on this webpage to a dedicated Naxos webpage for the entire album. It is the link labelled, "Naxos 8557854."

From that same webpage that I just referenced, you can stream the song or download it; they'll even let you do both, if you want to.

The stream bar will be apparent; the link to use to download the free MP3 is, fittingly enough, labeled "Direct MP3 download link."

I didn't care much for the free piece. It is too stirring, too busy, not relaxing enough for the way that I like to use classical music.

It seems that fewgreat composers came out of Norway. Actually, Grieg is the only one that I know of. 'Course with the temperatures hovering around 100 degrees below zero in winter (just kidding--I think), that tends to make people choose other places to live, and that's probably a big reason that Norway does not have a very large population, a population large enough to create a lot of great composers.

My great-grandfather left Norway for the New World about the time that Grieg's work would have been peaking in the late 1800's. Both of them were from Bergen, my great-grandfather traveled by ship from there to Canada, before moving to the U.S. I have wondered many times how many Grieg songs my great-grandfather may have heard growing up and how I may be listening to some of those very songs today. Of course, too, he may not have even liked classical music. ha

GtrsRGr8 · 03-14-2017, 04:13 PM

Good song, good instrumentation, good vocals (for the most part):

Song: Night Light (feat. Anya Marina)
Artist: Billy Harvey
Album: Elephants In The Room
Label: Gold Records / Digital Music Marketing
Genre: Rock/Pop
Styles: Singer-Songwriter

You have until about 12 midnight Eastern Time to get it.

http://www.emusic.com/dailydownloads/toolbar/main.html.

GtrsRGr8 · 03-14-2017, 05:28 PM

From the Classical-music.com website today:

This week's free download is Alberto Da Ripa's Fantasie No. 13 for lute, played by Jakob Lindberg. The track is from Lindberg's latest album, Italian Lute Virtuosi of the Renaissance, which received a five-star review in the February issue of BBC Music Magazine.

'Lindberg's own 'suavity of sound' creates its very own soul music,' writes Paul Riley, 'there's a sense of eavesdropping on a spontaneous yet eloquently-argued soliloquy.'

You have to have an acccount with Classical-music.com, and be logged on to that account, in order to get the free download. If you've taken care of both of those, navigate to this Classical-music.com webpage. Click on the red "Download Now" button which should appear on the thumbnail of the album cover on that webpage.

The piece runs about 4 minutes, and 54 seconds. Alas, almost all of the classical music freebies that I hear about are formatted in MP3, and that's true with this one.

I was looking forward to listening to this free piece. For one reason, when I saw the thumbnail of the album cover, there was this stringed instrument that I didn't recognize, and I was sure that I had not heard it played before. Too, I didn't remember ever hearing the name of the composer, Alberto Da Ripa. I knew that the piece was going to be out of the ordinary from what we usually hear. I must say that I was very pleased with the performance.

GtrsRGr8 · 03-15-2017, 04:34 AM

Blasted insomnia. Arrghhh!

Well, I decided that I might as well get up out of bed and go ahead and post today's YourClassical free piece, since I can't get to sleep anyway.

When I saw the title of today's freebie, my eye was immediately caught by one word--"clarinet." I don't remember seeing, therefore posting, a free clarinet piece at all over the time that I've been making these posts of free classical music. And, I happen to like the woodwind instruments, especially the clarinet, and have since my brief foray into playing music (flute--5th grade band under Mr. Stonecipher), when I becameacquainted with some of the traditional musical instruments out there.

The title of the free piece is, in fact called Clarinet Quartet No. 1, composed by yet another new composerto me--Ernesto Cavallini. The Stark Quartet plays this rendition, and it is part of a Tactus Publishing album called something like Il Clarinetto tra Ottocento e Novecento dal solo al quartetto. Even though it is published by Tactus Publishing, it seems like Naxos Publishing almost has a monopoly on information webpages for all of the classical albums out there. You can, in fact, access the dedicated Naxos webpage for this album at this URL.

The free piece is an MP3, running 3 minutes, 49 seconds in length. Download and/or stream it from this dedicated webpage for the free piece from YourClassical.

The piece is very nice, IMHO. It is a nice break from the typical classical music that we get free. My wish now is for a freebie of another woodwind--the saxophone--but something makes me think that they are even rarer than clarinet classical pieces. Being now a powerful, influential member of the music promotion industry

, however, perhaps I can pull a few strings (no pun intended) and get one of those one of these days soon.

GtrsRGr8 · 03-15-2017, 04:47 AM

It's 4:40 a.m. Eastern time now. I thought that I would check eMusic's free offering of the day and see if it is working yet. My discovery: The title changed over at about midnight (I checked around then, also), but you still can't get the free piece to download.

Memo to eMusic: do you think that this kind of long-term, uncorrected, annoying glitch is supposed to endear ourselves to you and your music so that we want to buy it (more of?) from you? If so, I think that you should think again.

booklover6 · 03-15-2017, 12:29 PM

Amazon has $10 off Music Unlimited, if you are a new user. I was able to sign up and get the discount, even though I had previously had the Echo only plan for a few months.

03-14-2017, 02:16 AM	#1525
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	Another weekday, another offer by YourClassical of a free classical music piece. Today's freebie comes from the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. The album that the free piece comes from is a Naxos album of his works, entitled Grieg - Norwegian Dances - Ballade Slatter (Suite for Orchestra). The particular piece that we are allowed to grab for free is a 4 minute, 19 second piece called Lyric Pieces, Book 5: No. 6 Ringing Bells. Everything on the album is performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with Bjarte Engeset conducting. Of course, some of you may wish to know much more about the album than that. If so, you're in luck. YourClassical has a link on this webpage to a dedicated Naxos webpage for the entire album. It is the link labelled, "Naxos 8557854." From that same webpage that I just referenced, you can stream the song or download it; they'll even let you do both, if you want to. The stream bar will be apparent; the link to use to download the free MP3 is, fittingly enough, labeled "Direct MP3 download link." I didn't care much for the free piece. It is too stirring, too busy, not relaxing enough for the way that I like to use classical music. It seems that fewgreat composers came out of Norway. Actually, Grieg is the only one that I know of. 'Course with the temperatures hovering around 100 degrees below zero in winter (just kidding--I think), that tends to make people choose other places to live, and that's probably a big reason that Norway does not have a very large population, a population large enough to create a lot of great composers. My great-grandfather left Norway for the New World about the time that Grieg's work would have been peaking in the late 1800's. Both of them were from Bergen, my great-grandfather traveled by ship from there to Canada, before moving to the U.S. I have wondered many times how many Grieg songs my great-grandfather may have heard growing up and how I may be listening to some of those very songs today. Of course, too, he may not have even liked classical music. ha Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-14-2017 at 05:30 PM.

03-15-2017, 04:34 AM	#1528
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	Blasted insomnia. Arrghhh! Well, I decided that I might as well get up out of bed and go ahead and post today's YourClassical free piece, since I can't get to sleep anyway. When I saw the title of today's freebie, my eye was immediately caught by one word--"clarinet." I don't remember seeing, therefore posting, a free clarinet piece at all over the time that I've been making these posts of free classical music. And, I happen to like the woodwind instruments, especially the clarinet, and have since my brief foray into playing music (flute--5th grade band under Mr. Stonecipher), when I becameacquainted with some of the traditional musical instruments out there. The title of the free piece is, in fact called Clarinet Quartet No. 1, composed by yet another new composerto me--Ernesto Cavallini. The Stark Quartet plays this rendition, and it is part of a Tactus Publishing album called something like Il Clarinetto tra Ottocento e Novecento dal solo al quartetto. Even though it is published by Tactus Publishing, it seems like Naxos Publishing almost has a monopoly on information webpages for all of the classical albums out there. You can, in fact, access the dedicated Naxos webpage for this album at this URL. The free piece is an MP3, running 3 minutes, 49 seconds in length. Download and/or stream it from this dedicated webpage for the free piece from YourClassical. The piece is very nice, IMHO. It is a nice break from the typical classical music that we get free. My wish now is for a freebie of another woodwind--the saxophone--but something makes me think that they are even rarer than clarinet classical pieces. Being now a powerful, influential member of the music promotion industry , however, perhaps I can pull a few strings (no pun intended) and get one of those one of these days soon. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-15-2017 at 04:39 AM.

03-15-2017, 04:47 AM	#1529
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	It's 4:40 a.m. Eastern time now. I thought that I would check eMusic's free offering of the day and see if it is working yet. My discovery: The title changed over at about midnight (I checked around then, also), but you still can't get the free piece to download. Memo to eMusic: do you think that this kind of long-term, uncorrected, annoying glitch is supposed to endear ourselves to you and your music so that we want to buy it (more of?) from you? If so, I think that you should think again. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-15-2017 at 04:51 AM.

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03-10-2017, 02:08 AM	#1516
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 publishes an album called Sarasate - Spanish Dances - Serenata Andaluza - Balada. YourClassical is able to offer us, free, one of the pieces from the album. That piece is Pablo de Sarasate - Serenade andalouse. The free offer is good through this weekend. All of the pieces on the album feature Tianwa Yang on the violin and Markus Hadulla on the piano. No conductor is mentioned (none may be necessary since this is a duet). Find out lots more about the entire album, the artists, and maybe a bit or two more about the free piece, than I'll be giving here, by pointing your browser to here. That is the dedicated Naxos webpage for the album. Our free piece is 6 minutes, 47 seconds long, and is formatted in MP3 as always is the case with these YourClassical giveaways. You can stream it at this dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece. Alternately, or additionally, you may download the piece, again freely, from the same webpage by clicking on "Direct MP3 download link." The piece is a good one. Having said that, it's not one that I think that I would listen to casually. It has lots of changes in speed, volume, etc. I can see it being an excellent piece to accompany a Spanish dance, as it apparently was written for, and I would enjoy seeing a Spanish dance group dance in accompaniment to the song. Oh, and it would be nice to have several plates of tapas at the table to munch on while I'm watching and listening. Yum.

03-12-2017, 05:24 PM	#1521
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	EMusic's free download of the day today is a winner, IMHO. I still can't understand why eMusic puts particular songs under the rubrics that it does. They say that the "genre" of this song is "Alternative/Punk" and the "styles" is/are "Alternative." I'll be honest--the problem may lie with me more than it does eMusic--maybe I don't really know what those genres or styles encompass nowadays. But, to me, the song sounds like metal (nothing extreme) rock of some kind. As far as the quality of the sound and of the band are concerned, they are very similar to some of the ones that I heard on the radio in the mid and late 00's (2004-2009 or so). They are honestly that good, IMHO. Song: Machu Picchu (New Small Town) Artist: Ben Davis Album: Charge It Up! Label: Lovitt Records Genre: Alternative/Punk Styles: Alternative Get it here. I regret that I am so late in the day posting this. I "always" am awake when eMusic posts a new freebie, between 12 midnight and 1 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time. Inevitably, for the first few hours after they make a new post, however, you can't get the download to happen. A button shows "Download free track," and some kind of activity results when you click it, but the download doesn't occur. And I'm not going to post an item from eMusic unless I can hear it and know that it is a good one. So, that means that I have to post late in the giveaway period (I do have to sometime, you know). Here are a couple of customer support webpages at eMusic in case you want to complain: Report downloading issues. Submit feedback.

03-13-2017, 01:47 AM	#1524
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	It's Monday, and that means the beginning of a 5-day week (M-F) of free classical pieces from YourClasssical! The week starts off with a free rendition of Keyboard Sonata In A Major, K.208, a piece composed by Domenico Scarlatti. This rendition is a piano only piece, with Yevgeny Sudbin doing the tickling of the ivories. The free piece is one of 18 sonatas on an album from music publisher BIS, called Scarlatti - 18 Sonatas - Yevgeny Sudbin. No dedicated webpage for the entire album is apparently supplied for us this time. The free 3 minute, 59 second piece is very pleasant, I think. I use the word "becalming" a lot, but that's how I would describe this piece. Invariably, the free download that we are offered each day is in the MP3 format, and today's is no exception. If you will navigate to this dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece, you will have the option to stream the piece and/or download it (click on the link that says "Direct MP3 download link"). I'm already looking forward to finding out what tomorrow's free piece will be!

03-14-2017, 04:13 PM	#1526
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	Good song, good instrumentation, good vocals (for the most part): Song: Night Light (feat. Anya Marina) Artist: Billy Harvey Album: Elephants In The Room Label: Gold Records / Digital Music Marketing Genre: Rock/Pop Styles: Singer-Songwriter You have until about 12 midnight Eastern Time to get it. http://www.emusic.com/dailydownloads/toolbar/main.html.

03-14-2017, 05:28 PM	#1527
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	From the Classical-music.com website today: This week's free download is Alberto Da Ripa's Fantasie No. 13 for lute, played by Jakob Lindberg. The track is from Lindberg's latest album, Italian Lute Virtuosi of the Renaissance, which received a five-star review in the February issue of BBC Music Magazine. 'Lindberg's own 'suavity of sound' creates its very own soul music,' writes Paul Riley, 'there's a sense of eavesdropping on a spontaneous yet eloquently-argued soliloquy.' You have to have an acccount with Classical-music.com, and be logged on to that account, in order to get the free download. If you've taken care of both of those, navigate to this Classical-music.com webpage. Click on the red "Download Now" button which should appear on the thumbnail of the album cover on that webpage. The piece runs about 4 minutes, and 54 seconds. Alas, almost all of the classical music freebies that I hear about are formatted in MP3, and that's true with this one. I was looking forward to listening to this free piece. For one reason, when I saw the thumbnail of the album cover, there was this stringed instrument that I didn't recognize, and I was sure that I had not heard it played before. Too, I didn't remember ever hearing the name of the composer, Alberto Da Ripa. I knew that the piece was going to be out of the ordinary from what we usually hear. I must say that I was very pleased with the performance.

03-15-2017, 12:29 PM	#1530
booklover6 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,545 Karma: 14008730 Join Date: May 2008 Location: PA (USA) Device: Kobo Clara, 2E, Libre 1, PW4, PW5, 2022 Kindle, Kobo Libre Colour	Amazon has $10 off Music Unlimited, if you are a new user. I was able to sign up and get the discount, even though I had previously had the Echo only plan for a few months.

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