Tangled Tunes
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Tangled Tunes is a famous piece of light classical music by Albert Ketèlbey
Albert Ketèlbey
Albert William Ketèlbey , born Ketelbey, was an English composer, conductor and pianist.-Biography:...

 comprising 106 melodies.
  1. Rule, Britannia!
    Rule, Britannia!
    "Rule, Britannia!" is a British patriotic song, originating from the poem "Rule, Britannia" by James Thomson and set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740...

  2. Three Blind Mice
    Three Blind Mice
    Three Blind Mice is an English nursery rhyme and musical round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753.-Lyrics:The modern words are:-Variations and uses:Amateur music composer Thomas Oliphant noted in 1843 that:...

  3. Mistletoe Bough
  4. Ah Che la Morte (Trovatore)
  5. Flower Song (Faust)
  6. Three Fishers Went a Sailing
    Three Fishers
    "Three Fishers" is a poem and a folk song written in 1851. The original poem was written by English poet, novelist and preacher, Charles Kingsley. It was first set to music by English composer John Hullah shortly thereafter...

  7. Drinking
  8. Heart of Oak
    Heart of Oak
    "Heart of Oak" is the official march of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. It is also the official march of several Commonwealth navies including the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy....

  9. Charlie is My Darling
    Charlie Is My Darling (song)
    Charlie Is My Darling is the title of a number of traditional Scots songs.The first is attributed variously to James Hogg or Carolina Oliphant . Beginning with the line Twas on a Monday morning, right early in the year, it celebrates the Jacobite movement...

  10. The Minstrel Boy
    The Minstrel Boy
    "The Minstrel Boy" is an Irish patriotic song written by Thomas Moore who set it to the melody of The Moreen, an old Irish air. It is widely believed that Moore composed the song in remembrance of a number of his friends, whom he met while studying at Trinity College, Dublin and who had...

  11. Gathering Nuts in May
    Nuts in May (rhyme)
    "Nuts in May" is a nursery rhyme often sung as a game with the aim of pairing a boy and girl from within the singers. It has a Roud index number of 6308.-Lyrics:...

  12. Dixie's Land
    Dixie (song)
    Countless lyrical variants of "Dixie" exist, but the version attributed to Dan Emmett and its variations are the most popular. Emmett's lyrics as they were originally intended reflect the mood of the United States in the late 1850s toward growing abolitionist sentiment. The song presented the point...

  13. Soldier's Chorus (Trovatore)
  14. Grandfather's Clock
    My Grandfather's Clock
    "My Grandfather's Clock" is a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Work, the author of "Marching Through Georgia". It is a standard of British brass bands and colliery bands, and is also popular in bluegrass music.-Origin of the song:...

  15. Marseillaise
  16. British Grenadiers
  17. Home Sweet Home
    Home Sweet Home
    - Film :* Home, Sweet Home , a film about the life of John Howard Payne* Home, Sweet Home , a British film starring Richard Cooper* Home Sweet Home , a British comedy film starring Frank Randle...

  18. Bluebells of Scotland
    Bluebells of Scotland
    Blue Bells of Scotland is a traditional Scottish folk song .-Text:As with most folk songs, it exists in multiple versions. In the version printed in 1803 in the Scots Musical Museum, the words are:...

  19. Intro. Act III Lohengrin
  20. Sailor's Hornpipe
  21. The Girl I Left Behind Me
  22. Garry Owen
  23. Poet and Peasant
  24. 1812 Overture
    1812 Overture
    The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E flat major, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture or the Overture of 1812 is an overture written by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of...

  25. Tannhauser March
  26. 1812 Overture
  27. Il Bacio
  28. Romeo and Juliet Waltz
  29. Prophete March
  30. Soldier's Chorus (Faust)
  31. O Tender Moon (Faust)
  32. Silver Threads Among the Gold
    Silver Threads Among the Gold
    "Silver Threads Among the Gold", first copyrighted in 1873, was an extremely popular song in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today it is a standard of barbershop quartet singing. The lyrics are by Eben E...

  33. Killarney
  34. Mary of Argyle
  35. Robin Adair
  36. Wedding March
    Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
    Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream...

     (Mendelsshon)
  37. Anvil Chorus
    Anvil Chorus
    The Anvil Chorus is the English term for the Coro di zingari , a piece of music from Act 2, Scene 1 of Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore which depicts Spanish Gypsies striking their anvils at dawn – hence its English name – and singing the praises of hard work, good wine, and their Gypsy...

     (Trovatore)
  38. Yankee Doodle
    Yankee Doodle
    "Yankee Doodle" is a well-known Anglo-American song, the origin of which dates back to the Seven Years' War. It is often sung patriotically in the United States today and is the state anthem of Connecticut...

  39. Dixie's Land
  40. Maid of Athens
  41. Johnny Get Your Gun
  42. Raymond Overture
  43. Light Cavalry Overture
    Light Cavalry Overture
    The Light Cavalry Overture is the overture to Franz von Suppé’s operetta Light Cavalry .Although the opera is rarely performed or recorded, the overture is one of Suppé's most popular compositions, and has achieved a quite distinct life of its own, divorced from the opera of which it originally...

  44. The Keel Row
    The Keel Row
    The Keel Row is a traditional Tyneside folk song evoking the life and work of the keelmen of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was first published in 1770, but may be considerably older...

  45. For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
    For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
    "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow" is a song which is sung to congratulate a person on a significant event, such as, a promotion, a birthday, the birth of a child, or the winning of a championship sporting event. The melody originates from that of the French song "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre...

  46. The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls
  47. Village Blacksmith
  48. Scenes That are Brightest (Maritana)
  49. Lend Me Your Aid
  50. Blue Danube
    The Blue Danube
    The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 , a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866...

  51. Poet and Peasant
  52. Spring Song
  53. Little Brown Jug
    Little Brown Jug
    Little Brown Jug can refer to:*Little Brown Jug , an 1869 song by Joseph Winner. Most or all other uses of this phrase are named after this famous song*Little Brown Jug , a harness race for three-year-old pacing standardbreds...

  54. La Donna e Mobile
    La donna è mobile
    "La donna è mobile" is the cynical Duke of Mantua's canzone from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto . The inherent irony is that it is the callous playboy Duke himself who is mobile...

     (Rigoletto)
  55. Excelsior
  56. Lass of Richmond Hill
  57. Bay of Biscay
  58. Rule Britannia
  59. Vicar of Bray
    The Vicar of Bray (song)
    "The Vicar of Bray" is a satirical songrecounting the career of the Vicar of Bray and his contortions of principle in order to retain his ecclesiastic office despite the changes in the Established Church through the course of several English monarchs...

  60. John Peel
  61. Last Rose of Summer
    The Last Rose of Summer
    The Last Rose of Summer is a poem by Irish poet Thomas Moore, who was a friend of Byron and Shelley. Moore wrote it in 1805 while at Jenkinstown Park in County Kilkenny, Ireland...

  62. Villikins and His Dinah
  63. Buy a Broom
  64. The Ash Grove
    The Ash Grove
    The Ash Grove is a traditional Welsh folk song whose melody has been set to numerous sets of lyrics. The most well-known was written, in English, by John Oxenford in the 19th century....

  65. Sally in Our Alley
  66. Alice Where Art Thou
  67. Sweet Genevieve
  68. Semiramide Overture
  69. Marche aux Flambeaux
  70. Marching Through Georgia
    Marching Through Georgia
    "Marching Through Georgia" is a marching song written by Henry Clay Work at the end of the American Civil War in 1865. It refers to U.S. Maj. Gen...

  71. Merry Wives of Windsor
  72. Stephanie Gavotte
  73. Kirmesse Scene (Faust)
  74. March (Damnation de Faust)
  75. Sword Chorus (Faust)
  76. 1812 Overture
  77. Bohemian Girl Overture
  78. Der Freischutz Overture
  79. Tannhauser March
  80. Three Cheers for the Red White and Blue
  81. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
    When Johnny Comes Marching Home
    "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" is a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.-Origins:...

  82. William Tell Overture
    William Tell Overture
    The William Tell Overture is the instrumental introduction to the opera Guillaume Tell by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement, although he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal...

  83. Good King Wenceslas
    Good King Wenceslas
    "Good King Wenceslas" is a popular Christmas carol about a king who goes out to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen . During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by following the king's footprints, step for step,...

  84. Tannhauser March
  85. Il Balen (Trovatore)
  86. Dio Possente (Faust)
  87. Athalie March
  88. How Can I Leave Thee
  89. Come, Birdie Come
  90. Tarara-Boom-De-Ay
    Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay
    "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" is a vaudeville and music hall song, copyrighted by Henry J. Sayers, and introduced in Boston, Massachusetts in Tuxedo in 1891. The song was best known in the version sung by Lottie Collins in London music halls in 1892....

  91. Tancredi Overture
  92. Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be
    Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be?
    "What Can the Matter Be?", also known as "Johnny's So Long at the Fair" is a traditional nursery rhyme that can be traced back as far as the 1780s in England. There are several variations on its lyrics...

  93. Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
  94. The Bogie Man
  95. Pop Goes the Weasel
    Pop Goes the Weasel
    "Pop! Goes the Weasel" is an English language nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 5249.-Lyrics:There are many different versions of the lyrics to the song...

  96. Amoretten Tanz
  97. Valse des Fleurs (Casse-noisette)
  98. Waltz in A flat (Chopin)
  99. Nocturne (Chopin)
  100. Fragment from Faust
  101. Faust Waltz
  102. Flying Dutchman Overture
  103. Auld Lang Syne
    Auld Lang Syne
    "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song . It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world; its traditional use being to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of midnight...

  104. Old English Gentleman
  105. Zampa
    Zampa
    Zampa, ou La fiancée de marbre is an opéra comique in three acts by French composer Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold...

  106. God Save the King
  107. The Policeman’s Holiday
  108. ?????


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