Chris Bonds lists the following characteristics of great tunes:
>Memorable
>Wear like iron
>Singable or hummable
>You catch yourself humming them at odd times of the day
>Unites people in a common cause if accompanied by at
>least 2 of the above ;-)
I guess once I got started I just didn't know when to stop. So I stopped
arbitrarily. But these are along hundreds of tunes I can't forgot.
Bach
Lobe den Herren
Nun Danket Alle Gott
Eine Feste Burg
and hundreds of other chorales
Haydn
2nd mv't String Qt. op. 76/2 "Deutschand"
Handel
Every Valley
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
Mendelssohn
Sweet Remembrance (Songs Without Words)
O Rest in the Lord (Elijah)
Schubert
Ave Maria (probably the most beautiful tune ever written)
Schoene Mullerin
Die Forelle
Die Vogel
and almost every other song he wrote
Schumann
Nussbaum
much more
Dvorak
Second mv't from the New World Symphony
Hugo Wolf
Cradle Song
Nielsen
The Rose Now Blooms
The Tiny Lark
I Bear My Yolk With A Smile
Den Milde Dag (from Springtime in Funen)
Jens Vejmand
Imogen Rose
American spirituals
Let Us Break Bread Together
Got tired at this point!
Andrew Carlan