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!
I’m a pianist so I have many many favorite pieces. 🙂
How about:
Beethoven Waldstein sonata (Op. 53) and Op. 111
Schumann Fantasy in C
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
Handel The Messiah
Elgar Cello Concerto
Hall of the Mountain King.
Anything from Carmen and the Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore.
I am VERY late to this…but I would LOVE to win, so here goes!
It may not be my FAVOURITE classical piece, but it is a piece of music I will never forget.
Way back in the day, I was in Musical Appreciation in University (don’t judge – it was an easy ‘A’).
There was this song, that was a classical piece…and it was paired to a poem.
The piece was by Schubert, his Opus 1, and the poem was by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – The Erlkonig. The music is terrifying, and the poem was the scariest thing I had ever heard. It was about a little boy being carried by his father through the forest on horse back, and the little boy can see something chasing them, but the father just keeps on telling him that it is nothing, that it is just shadows, the fog, whatever…
The child gets more and more terrified as the song progresses, until he finally freaks out, saying that he is being attacked! When the father gets to his destination, he realizes the child has died in his arms.
Sweet. Baby. Jesus.
I better win this, because just remembering this song will bring back the nightmares!
A piece has been growing on me since my 7 year old son has started playing it. Here’s some other kid playing it on youtube.
Handel’s water music, Clare de Lune. I can’t help it I know I’m considered the box-wine lover of classical. I also lover Gianni Scattchi, but what the heck.
Has to be anything by Puccini but my favourite Puccini is ‘Tosca’ and ‘Vissi d’arte. Floria Tosca is such a diva but really feel for her in this aria!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A…
Non opera, has to be the 5 Brahms waltz’s used for Isadora by Frederick Ashton. Beautiful!!
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 In F Minor – I love the French Horn parts in this. I wish I’d heard this when I was choosing an instrument to learn to play. The violin might have lost out to the french horn.
I’m not real fond of this type of music, but I have always loved Pachelbel’s Canon in D. And then my daughter walked down the aisle to it, and that song became part of my heart.
I like all sorts of classical but the first thing that popped into my mind when you asked for a favorite was the Carmina Burana. Of course there are tons of variations and I love them all in their nonsense. I just think it is the coolest piece of music – derived from antiquity and brought to life in modern days. Cool stuff.
2cellos version of viva la vida. I hope that sorta counts..
Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” is my absolute fave.
Granados Andaluza
I love Vivaldi’s Spring. It is so uplifting!
Appalachian Spring / Copland and Carmina Burana / Orff
Any thing by Bach brings me to rapture… My dad used to make us listen to classical music at dinner time so I have a definite taste for it although I cant remember a lot of them…
The blue danube waltz is actually the one song that I always imagine the hero and heroine dance to cement their love….I would so dance it at my wedding 🙂
I tend not to know what I’m listening so while I can hum it I can’t tell you what it is. I think Rhapsody in Blue is the only classical piece that I like and can actually name.
I am also a big fan of Bach and his Cello Suites and my mother loves the Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, so I will give that piece another shout out in her honor.
I love Beethoven’s Fur Elise. It reminds me of my grandmother and a music box she had.
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony!