A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare: Win a Digital ARC

A Lady By Midnight

A few weeks back, I was tweeting and talking on the podcast about how much I enjoyed the third book in Tessa Dare's Spindle Cove series, A Lady By Midnight (A | BN | K | S). Avon kindly offered up 5 digital ARCs to help me soothe my feelings of guilt for talking about a book so far before the on-sale date. Super easy and quick giveaway ahoy!

If you'd like to win a digital ARC of A Lady By Midnight, leave a comment below and tell me your favorite piece of classical music (the heroine, Kate, is a music teacher in Spindle Cove).

I'll share one of mine: one of my absolute favorites is the second movement to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which you can hear (and watch from a 1952 Carnegie Hall performance) on YouTube. The first movement of the 5th is pretty bad ass, but the second movement is my favorite. 

And if you don't like classical music, you can still enter! TV themes, jazz, instrumental interstitials to commercials, they all totally count. Feel free to post a link to the piece of music you're suggesting, too. This will be one loud entry when I figure out how to make them auto play all at once.

There are no restrictions geographically for this giveaway but please know that winners will need an account with Edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com. The eARCs expire on the book’s on sale date, which is 28 August 2012.

If you're confused about what devices you can use, your questions may be answered at the Edelweiss site.

Standard disclaimers apply: I'm not being compensated for this giveaway, except that I read an ARC a week or so ago. Void where prohibited. Must be over 18 years of age and driving a wagon in order to win. Your mileage may vary. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. Never sass a librarian or a music teacher.

You've got until 11:59pm ET Saturday 16 June, and I'll be picking the winners at random from all your musical suggestions. Ready, set, go!

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  1. Heather Johnson says:

    I like Bach’s cello suite 1 and Schubert’s 9th symphony. 

  2. Kaia says:

    Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is awesome. Alicia Keys even sampled it in her debut single “Fallin’”.

  3. JennyPenny says:

    Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!

  4. magneticwave says:

    I basically love anything by Rachmaninov, but his third piano concerto continually causes me to melt into a nearby piece of furniture and fan myself to prevent instant swooning. BRILLIANT.

  5. Kimberly McGee says:

    I here are a few of my favorites: Franz Liszt’s La Campanella, any & all of Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturnes, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies, and Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

  6. NicAwesomeOle says:

    Fur Elise… Always.

  7. Cheryl says:

    Heh. Awesome rant. I’m right there with him even though I played violin. It was our warm up music. Every morning for years we started with Canon in D Major. Oy.

  8. Sarah says:

    Für Elise, my mother loves it and played it all the time when I was younger, so I have a special connection with it.

  9. Michelle Pierce says:

    A favorite piece of classical music? A good 70% of the music I own is movie and video game scores. I LOVE instrumental music.

    One of the most moving pieces of instrumental music I own is “The Breaking of the Fellowship” from The Fellowship of the Ring score. Whenever I have to write a bittersweet scene, I just set that song on repeat:

    But for sheer fun, this song is one of my favorites right now: Vamo’ Alla Flamenco –

    I can’t help but dance along when I hear it!

  10. Bonnie McNabb says:

    I love Moonlight Sonata and the score of the film Chocolat.  That music suits the film brilliantly!

  11. BethP says:

    Vivaldi, Four Seasons….

  12. Heidijohnjeff says:

    I have always had a great love for Mozart’s music. All of it..

  13. Jane Peach says:

    Beethoven’s Fifth is probably my favorite, though most of his make me happy.  Like some of the other commentors, Copland is also a favorite.  Also, since you mentioned jazz, I’ve got to say Miles Davis – Kind of Blue.  I could (and have) listen to it daily without getting tired of it.

  14. Warinda says:

    My favorite is Beethoven’s Spring Sonata (Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major). It always cheer me up:)

  15. Solange says:

    I don’t listen to classical music all that often but the title of J.S. Bach ‘Air On The G String’ appeals to the 15 year old girl in me. Teehee.

    My actual favourite is Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’. Its one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces I’ve heard.

  16. Don’t enter me in the contest, but my favorites:

    * Ralph Vaughn Williams “Fantasia on Greensleeves” and his “English Folk Song Suite.” (Note: The middle section of “Fantasia on Greensleeves” was part of what I thought of as the essential soundtrack for “This Wicked Gift.”)
    * Saint-Saens’s “Prelude to Le Deluge” and his Organ Symphony.
    * The Messiah.
    * Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides Overture”
    * Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, and Piano Concerto #2.
    * Bach’s French Suites
    * Bizet’s L’Arlesienne
    * Mahler’s Symphony #6 (although don’t listen to this if you don’t feel like being downtrodden and depressed).
    * Smetana’s Ma Vlast

    And I also like the Moonlight Sonata—but I have to put in a good word for the third movement, which is utterly brilliant and almost never gets played.

    I have to stop now.

  17. Aimee Steininger says:

    I REALLY hope I win the ARC, since I loved all the other books in the series, and have literally been counting down until the release of “A Lady by Midnight”!

    I don’t tend to listen to a lot of classical music, but I would have to say that my favourite piece is “Winter, Largo” from Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” It is what I walked down the aisle to when I got married six years ago.

  18. jmv says:

    “O mio babbino caro” from Gianni Schicchi by Puccini.  So beautiful.  Used too much in films/tv but best used in the oh so romantic “Room with a View”

  19. Alainamauro says:

    My current favorite is Antonin Dvorak, the string quintet chamber music pieces. Great in-the-office de-stress music. There are also some great suggestions on here, am going to have to go back through my iTunes library to re-listen.

  20. emily says:

    I’m a fan of the Bach Cello Suites.

  21. Cheryl Mcinnis says:

    I’m more of a heavy metal kind of girl,lol, but when I was pregnant with my youngest daughter and she was doing jumping jacks on my bladder, the only song that was sure to settle her down was “Classical Gas” by Manheim Steamroller. For that reason alone, I love that song 😉

  22. Notmygnome says:

    Currently? It’s a toss up between Piazzolla’s History of the Tango for flute and guitar and Bolling’s Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio. 

  23. Winnie Pang says:

    Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.  Sung by Josh Groban here: 

  24. Brunette Librarian says:

    I love Beethoven – its just dramatic and wonderful. Especially Für Elise! Thank you for the chance, VERY excited for the next installment in Spindle Cove.

  25. azteclady says:

    Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. I can’t remember how young I was the first time I heard it but it has always, always moved me.

  26. Julie in GA says:

    I don’t remember what the name of it was, but I used it for the wedding march when I got married!  It was different from what I had heard before, and a harpist played it.  So romantic.

  27. Patsy says:

    I know it’s a bit trite, but I’ve always loved Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, especially Summer. Maybe because we played it every 3 years or so in orchestra when I was in school, so it reminds me of the feeling you get when you’re just about to go on vacation.  Also, love Tessa Dare, and the second book in this series, “A Week to be Wicked” contains my favorite romance couple ever.

  28. Anna Piranha says:

    Beethoven—either Fur Elise or or Ode to Joy. Rhapsody in Blue, while not technically classical, may actually edge this out.

  29. RJ says:

    First off, the second movement of the Beethoven 5 is probably the prettiest, but it cannot compare to the powerfulness of the third and fourth movements.  The return to C Major with those chords at the begining of the fourth and the entire trio section in the third just blow my mind.  I am not sure if I can chose my favourite piece of classical music because so many of my favourites are my favourites not because of the music, but because of the memories of playing the pieces in various orchestras.  If I had to narrow it down to just one piece, it would have to be Bruch’s Kol Nidrei.  Runners up include the Elgar Cello Concerto (played by du Pre )  and Faure’s Elegy along with anything by Howard Shore and the Pirates of The Caribbean score.  Also, Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance is amazing fun. 

     

     

     

  30. KarenF says:

    Brahms Second Piano Concerto – that piece just grabs me.  I also love Edgar Meyer’s Violin Concerto (that he wrote for Hilary Hahn), pretty much anything by Piazzolla, and Mark O’Connor’s “Fanfare for the Volunteer.”  Oh and there’s a cello concerto (I never remember which one) by Vivaldi that is painfully gorgeous.

  31. Sveta says:

    I enjoy listening to Secret Garden as well as Korean music such as Humming Urban Stereo, J-Walk, which have slow ballads. I’m not much of a fan of classical music.

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  32. Only what I hear in elevators 🙂

  33. Julie in AZ says:

    I’m not much of a classical music person but I absolutely love Rob Paravonian’s rant on Pachelbel’s Canon in D.  🙂

  34. RJ says:

    You are the first cellist I have ever heard saying that they like the cello part Cannon in D (or as my elementary school orch teacher called it “Taco Bell’s Canyon”)

  35. Pkluske says:

    I love Ravel’s ‘Bolero’. It always reminds me of the Seasons. The sweet strings in the beginning is the growth of Spring and then the playful tune of Summer. As it gets more intense it is the beauty of Autumn but with a feeling of a possible loss, a needing to hold on. Then the passionate sounds of Winter. Hold me near, keep me warm, never let me go, the swirling of winter winds brings a breathlessness a heating of bodies to keep warm and then the final climatic end. Oh, yes! Definitely ‘Bolero’.

  36. Am I the only one who searched Google before answering this question 😉 My knowledge of classical music is shockingly limited but I do have a soft spot for Beethoven’s Fur Elise because my grandmother used to play it on the piano at family gatherings.

  37. Lynn V says:

    Mahler’s 5th Symphony! So amazing!

  38. PhyllisLaatsch says:

    There’s a Vivaldi concerto for 2 trumpets that I adore. I used to play the trumpet and never have and never will play as well as you need to for that thing, so it’s purely about listening. Oh, and most of Beethoven. And not sure if Carmina Burana counts, because it’s 20th century, but there’s some amazing stuff in there. I have a hard time choosing 😉

  39. Lisa J says:

    As a rule, I’m a classic rock kind of woman.  My favorite song has to be American Pie.

  40. katherinelynn_04 says:

    Bach’s Cello Suite 3 in C Major. This isn’t my favorite version, but it’s a good one:

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