{"id":8126,"date":"2024-08-11T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T09:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=8126"},"modified":"2024-08-11T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T09:19:26","slug":"imitation-is-the-highest-form-of-flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2024\/08\/11\/imitation-is-the-highest-form-of-flattery\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitation is the highest form of flattery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We attended a concert last week at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danishguitarcamp.dk\">Danish Guitar Camp<\/a>, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlo-marchione.com\">Carlo Marchione<\/a> played a collection of music written for various instruments in the 1700s. One of those pieces was an arrangement of the Adagio from Mozart&#8217;s Klaviersonate in B-Major K. 570, which I had never heard before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As soon as he started, I thought&#8230;. waitaminute&#8230;. this tune sounds awfully familiar&#8230; as a Canadian&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wait&#8230; what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a listen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/dk\/album\/klaviersonate-in-b-dur-kv-570-ii-adagio\/1575557013?i=1575557649\">first 10 seconds of the Mozart<\/a>, then listen to the first 10 seconds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/dk\/album\/national-anthem-of-canada\/1452225572?i=1452228340\">Canadian National Anthem<\/a>. I suspect that Calixa Lavall\u00e9e might have had the Mozart tune in the back of his head when he sat down to work on Th\u00e9odore Robitaille&#8217;s commission.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We attended a concert last week at the Danish Guitar Camp, where Carlo Marchione played a collection of music written for various instruments in the 1700s. One of those pieces was an arrangement of the Adagio from Mozart&#8217;s Klaviersonate in B-Major K. 570, which I had never heard before. As soon as he started, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71,25,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-history","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-274","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8127,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}