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Hello everyone, this is just to let you know that I will be posting on a blog on the Rippling Keys website from next week.

The overarching name for the blog is “Humoresque”, which means a light-hearted piece of music, usually short and lively. It may be fanciful and humorous, apparently!

Probably the best-known humoresque is the one written by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák in 1894. In the summer of that year he composed a set of eight piano pieces, his Opus 101, and the most famous of these is Number Seven in G♭ major.

I’m hoping my blog posts will be received in that vein – they will be short-ish, lively-ish and funny-ish. If you’re lucky, there may even be pictures of my cat, who’s also short-ish, etc etc.

Once you’ve read a couple, you’ll see the sort of thing I’m posting. I would like “Humoresque” to be useful, informative and entertaining! I’ll be glad to know your response with comments, and, of course, any suggestions for future Humoresques!

You can watch the Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek performing Dvořák’s Opus 101 Number 7 in the video below.

PS: The main theme of this Humoresque was once used in a song with lyrics taken from a notice fixed to the lavatory door in an American train. The song was recorded in 1956 by Oscar Brand, on an album entitled “Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads”. But I advise listening to Mr Kahánek’s (and Mr Dvořák’s) version first!