Adventures in Music-Melody (1953)
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00:15 - Is everybody here?
00:42 - Yes, teacher.
00:44 - Suzy Sparrow.
00:45 - Here, teacher.
00:46 - Bertie Birdbrain.
00:48 - Here, teacher.
00:49 - The Canary Sisters.
00:51 - Here.
00:51 - Here.
00:52 - Here.
00:54 - Penelope Pinfeather.
00:55 (Penelope humming)
00:57 - Here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
01:01 - Here.
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01:06 - Today's lesson will be about
01:08 something we really can't do without.
01:10 - Hot food?
01:11 - No, about something everybody loves.
01:15 - Money?
01:18 - No, the subject, ah yes,
01:22 the subject for today is melody.
01:24 - A melody, like when you get sick?
01:27 - No.
01:28 ♪ M-E-L-O-D-Y, melody ♪
01:30 ♪ The subject for today will be a melody ♪
01:35 - Gosh, teacher, what is a melody?
01:37 - Now, if you take a few notes, say two.
01:40 (piano notes)
01:41 Or three.
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01:44 Or four.
01:45 (piano notes)
01:48 You can always add more.
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01:51 And pupils, what have you got?
01:53 - What have you got?
01:54 ♪ You've got a melody ♪
01:57 - Great!
01:58 Now let us fly to nature and lend an ear
02:01 to the multitude of musical sounds we hear.
02:04 - I don't hear nothing.
02:05 - Gosh, that's better.
02:09 ♪ When there are big chirps in the warm spring ♪
02:11 - I love it.
02:12 ♪ And the cricket rubs his wings together ♪
02:14 ♪ When the wind blows free through the willow tree ♪
02:17 ♪ Mother nature's busy making melody ♪
02:22 ♪ Oh, the bird and the cricket and the willow tree ♪
02:25 ♪ Yes, the bird and the cricket and the willow tree ♪
02:27 ♪ Oh, you don't need a ticket for the concert ♪
02:29 ♪ In the ticket from the birdie ♪
02:31 ♪ And the cricket and the willow tree ♪
02:33 - The willow tree?
02:34 ♪ The bird and the cricket and the weeping willow tree ♪
02:40 - Now of all the creatures on this earth,
02:42 only two species can sing.
02:45 Us, birds, and this animal called Homo sapiens.
02:50 - Homer Sapphens?
02:52 - Man to you.
02:55 You see, he even makes melody when he talks.
03:00 Why, what do you mean?
03:02 (trumpet playing)
03:05 What do you know about that?
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03:10 And the female of the species
03:12 is even more musical than the male.
03:15 Here we have an example of a few,
03:17 of overlapping melodies.
03:20 - Listen, Mabel, I've got the real dirt on this certain,
03:22 you know, who you won't believe it.
03:23 Besides, you'll laugh yourself to death.
03:24 (all chattering)
03:27 - We have here a child.
03:31 (all chattering)
03:34 Quiet!
03:36 Now we have here a chart we drew.
03:38 (all screaming)
03:43 Now we have here a chart which will clearly demonstrate
03:46 how our lives are lived from A to Z,
03:49 step by step to a melody.
03:52 ♪ We are born ♪
03:56 ♪ We are born ♪
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04:05 ♪ We go to school ♪
04:08 ♪ Oh, how happy I will be ♪
04:10 ♪ When I've learned my A, B, C ♪
04:14 ♪ Higher education ♪
04:17 (all cheering)
04:20 ♪ Mating season ♪
04:27 ♪ Bring to me only with thine eyes ♪
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04:35 ♪ We've married ♪
04:41 ♪ Here comes the bride ♪
04:43 ♪ And there goes the groom ♪
04:47 - The prime of life.
04:49 (all cheering)
05:00 We begin to resent our birthdays.
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05:05 That first gray hair.
05:13 We are beginning to slow down.
05:22 (all screaming)
05:25 We are about finished.
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05:30 We go to our reward.
05:36 ♪ Old and golden slippers ♪
05:42 ♪ Old and golden slippers ♪
05:44 ♪ Golden slippers have wine to wear ♪
05:46 ♪ To walk the golden street ♪
05:48 Next, we'll discuss inspiration.
05:53 I want each one of you to draw me a picture
05:55 of something we make melodies about.
05:59 Susie Sparrow.
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06:06 ♪ Take a lemon drop moon in a marshmallow sky ♪
06:13 ♪ Take a candy cane kid with a gleam in his eye ♪
06:19 ♪ When in walks a dream from heaven above ♪
06:26 ♪ Then a song fills his heart ♪
06:30 ♪ And he sings of love ♪
06:35 ♪ Love, love, love, love, love, love, love ♪
06:41 Penelope Pinfeather, recite your piece.
06:45 ♪ Sailing, boating upon the ocean blue ♪
06:49 ♪ Gave the inspiration for this song we sing to you ♪
06:53 ♪ A life on the ocean wave ♪
06:55 ♪ A home on the rolling deep ♪
06:59 Here's another one.
07:02 ♪ Oh, the old iron horse went a chugging along ♪
07:04 ♪ Chugging along, chugging along ♪
07:06 ♪ Oh, the hammer, the rails with a bucket full of nails ♪
07:08 ♪ Singing the railroad song ♪
07:11 Don't forget cowboys.
07:13 ♪ Get along, get along, get along ♪
07:15 ♪ With a coyote yippee and a yippee aye ♪
07:18 And engines.
07:19 (imitating engine)
07:22 ♪ Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie ♪
07:30 Are there any more?
07:35 ♪ Motherhood, motherhood ♪
07:43 ♪ Gives one a thrill that no other could ♪
07:47 ♪ Beautiful, beautiful motherhood ♪
07:52 ♪ Oh, we sing about the moon ♪
07:59 ♪ We sing about the rain ♪
08:02 ♪ We sing about steamboats ♪
08:04 ♪ And we sing about planes ♪
08:08 ♪ We sing about beauty ♪
08:10 ♪ But the fact remains that we never ♪
08:15 ♪ We never ever sing about brains ♪
08:19 Now students, in conclusion I wish to point out
08:24 that beautiful symphonies are often created
08:28 from simple melodies like the bird and the cricket
08:31 and the willow tree.
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09:33 ♪ The bird and the cricket and the willow tree ♪
09:54 ♪ And the willow tree ♪
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