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!
Gotta go with Mozart’s Symphony No. 40: I! Vivaldi’s Spring is also great, especially since it always reminds me of grand Regency balls (despite the fact that it was composed a couple of centuries before the Regency period…).
Beethoven’s 9th, Ode to Joy.
Oh my gosh. I love music waaaay to much to just pick one lol. I’ll give a short list though!
All time favorite classical piece is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture. I know, I know. Not anything someone hasn’t heard before, but the cannons are awesome! And hey it fits for Tessa’s Spindle Cove series! So does that give me brownie points?
I also love Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 1:
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9: II:
My favorite piece is the second movement of Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony. It’s so dramatic. At one point, just when you think it can’t get any bigger, it gets huge. The first time I heard it live I got chills.
What a great giveaway! I love these two works:
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring:
Gabriel’s Oboe:
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending.
I can’t wait to read what everyone else’s faves are!
I never tire of hearing the Ghost trio number 5 by Beethoven. It’s amazing haunting and beautiful, with just two violins and a piano.
My favorites are Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1 and Pachelbel’s Canon in D. (And to the person who posted that Youtube Pachelbel Rant, haha, thanks very much, that was hilarious!)
Mine is a Bach two part invention.So much fun to play.
Vivaldi’s Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra, R 93 in D Major
I love this song and this performance:
It’s a classic to me.
I have long loved the Intermezzo from the Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, so much so that I am seriously considering walking down the aisle to it!
My favorite to play on the piano when I’m feeling out of sorts is Beethoven Moonlight Sonata. But I am a total sucker for elmer fudd singing kill the rabbit kill the rabbit. Sigh, classic looney tunes.
Pretty much anything by Satie or Rachmaninov.
Anything by Tchaikovsky. I watched Sleeping Beauty on repeat as a kid. Even as a 5 year old, I thought the princess was kind of boring, but the music was incredible!
Rachmaninov symphony no.2—purely lush and romantic. I fell in love with it decades ago when I was in high school. Still love it.
Pachelbel’s Canon in D…my walk down the aisle and cue the happy tears song. But I also LOVE Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns. I guess that would be my dance in the moonlight and cue the wicked laughter song.
My favourite piece of classical music is the third movement of Brahms’s second piano concerto. It’s a middle-of-the-night, lying in bed and don’t have to worry about an early morning start piece of music. Happy, melancholy, whatever my mood, I’m always grateful almost to tears when it comes up on my iPod shuffle.
I feel terribly uncultured, but I don’t actually like most classical music. I mean, I guess I like most of the major Baroque composers, and at least several Romantics, but for music I love and listen to all the time I’m all about contemporary music. In particular, I adore the epic score to Battlestar Galactica by Bear McCreary, and really, love pretty much everything he’s ever composed.
Gabriel Faure – Pavane Op.50, the version conducted by Charles Dutoit with the Montreal Symphony and Choir. It is the most amazing piece of music I have ever heard – when I first heard it, I literally had to stop the car and listen. Definitely a what is that moment.
I walked down tje aisle to Moonlight Sonata so that’s a particular favorite of mine!
I like a piece called Nachtmusic (there’s probably some fancy little dots or accents in there somethere…)
And, I have an Edelweiss account so please count me in! 🙂
My very favorite classical piece is Vivaldi’s Spring. As soon as I hear those opening notes, it just lifts my spirits and really makes me feel good.
One of my favorites is Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. I remember when I was younger I heard my brother playing it, and I wanted to learn it too, but my piano teacher said the difficulty level was too high for me. I ended up teaching it to myself.
Oh , wow ! Look at all the music I had never heard that I now get to enjoy !
I’d choose The Ode To Joy, and Hendel Messiah pieces.
Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Also the Hawaii Five-o theme. 🙂
Night on Bald Mountain. Completely. It makes me feel mysterious and dangerous. 🙂
OH, that is way too hard to pick. I only LISTEN to classical music. (OK I listen to some other stuff sometimes, but only classical at home & at work… I have to make an effort to listen to something else :D)
I think Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, 2nd movement, would have to be right up there though. The time during which it was composed, and the first time it was played (at a benefit concert for soldiers during the Napoleanic Wars) just make the *whole* work more than a piece of music.
Pachebel’s Canon in D, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Strauss Jr.‘s On the Beautiful Blue Danube… so many!
So cliche, but I love the Swan Lake Overture by Tchaikovsky.
Rachmaninoff’s concerto #2 in C minor is my favorite. Please include me in the giveaway 🙂
I am quite find of Beethoven’s Pastorale… So pretty!
I love Rachmaninoff’s Concerto # 2 in C minor. Please include me in the giveaway 🙂
Elgar’s ‘Pomp & Circumstance’ because it was supposed to be a funeral march. :)) PLEASE, Lady Luck, pick me.
Pretty much anything by Aaron Copland is on my ‘favorites’ list.
I love, love, love Introitus from Mozart’s Requiem.
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture!
Gah, hard to choose, but the first classical piece that captivated me was Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Peer Grynt is another favorite of mine. Always puts a smile to my face 🙂 Here is a video of Copenhagen Phil doing a flash mob in the Copenhagen Metro:
. Beautiful.
I LOVE Vivaldi’s “Winter” from the Four Seasons. Everyone else loves Spring, but the Winter? Kills me. However, the Flower Duet from Lakme? I know nothing about that opera, except that that song moves me in amazing ways.
Anything my daughter has finally learnt to perform on her flute. It starts off so bad but after hours of practice I suddenly fall in love with the piece as it evolves & am in awe that it is my daughter creating that sound.