{"id":1324,"date":"2011-05-15T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2011-05-15T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T17:00:44","slug":"maidens-prayer-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"evolution of Maiden&#8217;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maiden's_Prayer\">this history of the song Maiden&#8217;s Prayer on Wikipedia<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><h2>1856<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/yqe5NCoQ1w0\">Sentimental salon tosh original<\/a>, published as &#8220;Modlitwa dziewicy&#8221; in 1856 in Warsaw, Poland<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A medium difficulty short piano piece for intermediate pianists. Some have liked it for its charming and romantic melody: others have described it as &#8220;sentimental salon tosh.&#8221; The pianist and academic Arthur Loesser described it as &#8220;this dowdy product of ineptitude.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yqe5NCoQ1w0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>1935<\/h2>\n<p>That sounds almost nothing like the Bob Wills version, published in 1935, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kg_0u9Z-9V4 \">via YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American musician Bob Wills arranged the piece in the Western swing style and wrote lyrics for it. He published it first in 1935 as &#8220;Maiden&#8217;s Prayer&#8221;; later, it became a standard, recorded by many artists. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kg_0u9Z-9V4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>2009<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xltyqGmkoSY\">Mike Auldridge casual jam on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>74 years after the Bob Wills version it keeps just the chord progression and a few fragments of the melody.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xltyqGmkoSY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working from this history of the song Maiden&#8217;s Prayer on Wikipedia&#8230; 1856 Sentimental salon tosh original, published as &#8220;Modlitwa dziewicy&#8221; in 1856 in Warsaw, Poland A medium difficulty short piano piece for intermediate pianists. Some have liked it for its charming and romantic melody: others have described it as &#8220;sentimental salon tosh.&#8221; The pianist and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}