Moondog the nom de plume of Louis T. Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), was an American composer, musician and poet, who also invented musical instruments - all this despite being blind, and, for three decades, homeless. May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Marysville is a city located in Marshall County, Kansas. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... New Age music, is a vaguely defined style of music that is generally quite melodic and often primarily instrumental. ... Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features and core self expression. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Early life

Born in Marysville, Kansas, he started playing a set of drums that he made himself from a cardboard box at the age of five. Hardin was blinded in a farm accident at the age of 16. After learning the principles of music in several schools for blind young men across middle America, he taught himself the skills of ear training and composition. Principally self-taught, he studied with Burnet Tuthill and at the Iowa School for the Blind. He had a particular interest in Native American music.

Street musician

From the late 1940s until 1974, Moondog lived as a street musician and poet in New York City, busking mostly on 53rd Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan. In addition to his music and poetry, he was also known for the distinctive Viking garb that he wore, which included a horned helmet. He partially supported himself by selling copies of his poetry and his musical philosophy. Because of his street post's proximity to the 52nd Street club strip, he was well-known to many jazz musicians and fans. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne warriors and traders of Norsemen (literally, men from the north) who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of the British Isles and mainland Europe as far east as the Volga River in Russia from the late 8th–11th century. ... 52nd Street, properly West 52nd Street, is a cross street in Manhattan in the Broadway district known as Swing Street, the street of jazz, the street that never sleeps or, simply, the street. The blocks of 52nd Street between 5th and 7th avenues were renowned in the mid 20th century...

Moondog's work was early championed by Artur Rodzinski, the conductor of New York Philharmonic in the '40s. He released a number of 78s, 45s and EPs of his music in the 1950s, as well as several LPs on a number of notable jazz labels, including an unusual record of stories for children with actress Julie Andrews in 1957. For ten years no new recordings were heard from Moondog until producer James William Guercio took him into the studio to record an album for Columbia Records in 1969. The track "Stamping Ground", with its odd preamble of Moondog saying one of his epigrams, was featured on the sampler double album Fill Your Head with Rock (CBS, 1970). The melody from the track "Bird's Lament (In memory of Charlie Parker)" was later sampled by Mr. Scruff as the basis for his song "Get a Move On", which was then used in commercials for the Lincoln Navigator SUV. Artur Rodzinski (January 1, 1892 - November 27, 1958) was a Polish conductor. ... The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States. ... The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) as a 33 â…“ LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc. ... The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) as a 33 â…“ LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. ... EP can stand for: EP is the IATA code for Iran Aseman Airlines Extended play, a music recording (usually consisting of several tracks, but shorter than a typical album) European Parliament, the parliamentary body of the European Union Evolutionary psychology, a belief that psychology can be better understood in light... This does not cite its references or sources. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States around the start of the 20th century. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James William Guercio (born in 1945 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American music producer, musician and songwriter (occasionally credited as Jim Guercio), and is probably best known for his work as the producer of Chicagos early albums. ... Columbia Records is the oldest brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Charles Bird Parker, Jr. ... Mr. ... The Lincoln Navigator is a full-size luxury SUV produced by the Lincoln division of Ford Motor Company. ... This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers, and should be edited to rectify this. ...

A second album produced with Guercio featured Moondog's daughter as a vocalist and contained song compositions in canons and rounds. The album did not make as large an impression in popular music as the first had. The two CBS albums were re-released as a single CD in 1989. In music, a canon is a contrapuntal composition that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e. ... A round is a musical composition in which two or more voices sing exactly the same melody over and over again, but with each voice beginning at different times. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The English pop group Prefab Sprout included the song 'Moondog' on their seminal album Jordan: The Comeback released in 1990 as a tribute to Hardin. Prefab Sprout is an English pop band that rose to moderate fame during the 1980s. ...

Inventions

In a search for new sounds, Moondog also invented several musical instruments, such as the "Oo", a small triangular shaped harp, the "Ooo-ya-tsu", and the "Trimba", a triangular percussion instrument invented in the late 40s. The Original Trimba today is still played by Stefan Lakatos, Swedish percussionist, close friend and pupil of Moondog, who also taught him how to build the instrument.

Germany

Moondog had an idealised view of Germany ("The Holy Land with the Holy River" — the Rhine), where he settled in 1974. A young German student named Ilona Goebel hosted him, first in Oer-Erkenschwick, and later on in Münster in Westphalia, Germany, where he spent the remainder of his life. The Rhine (Dutch: ; French: ; German: ; Italian: ; Romansh: ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe at 1,320 kilometres (820 miles), with an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Oer-Erkenschwick is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... For other places with the same or similar names, and other uses of the word, see Munster (disambiguation) Münster is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Westphalia (German: Westfalen) is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Bielefeld, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, and Osnabrück and included in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. ...

Moondog visited America briefly in 1989, for a tribute in which Phillip Glass himself asked him to conduct the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, at the New Music America Festival in Brooklyn, stimulating a renewed interest in his music. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Philip Glass looks upon sheet music in a portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz. ... Brooklyn (named after the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ...

He recorded many albums, and toured both in the US and in Europe — France, Germany and Sweden.

Early recordings

Singles

• "Snaketimes Rhythm" 1949-1950 SMC
• "Moondog's Symphony" 1949-1950 SMC
• "Organ Rounds" 1949-1950 SMC
• "Oboe Rounds" 1949-1950 SMC
• "Surf Session" c. 1953 SMC
• "Caribea Sextet"/"Oo Debut" 1956 Moondog Records

EPs

• Moondog On The Streets Of New York 1953 Decca/Mars
• Moondog And His Honking Geese 1955 Moondog Records

LPs

• Improvisations At A Jazz Concert 1953 Brunswick
• Moondog And His Friends 1953 Epic (reissued as Jazztime USA vol. 2 in 1955 on the Brunswick label)
• Moondog 1956 Prestige
• More Moondog 1956 Prestige
• The Story Of Moondog 1957 Prestige
• Tell It Again (with Julie Andrews) 1957 Angel/Capital

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Tracks on compilations

• New York 19 (edited by Tony Schwarz) 1954 Folkways
• Music in the Streets (edited by Tony Schwarz) 1954 Folkways

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Later recordings

Singles

• '"Stamping Ground Theme" (from the Holland Pop Festival) 1970 CBS

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LPs

• Moondog (not the same as the 1956 LP) 1969 Columbia
• Moondog II 1971 Columbia
• Moondog In Europe 1977 Kopf
• Moondog - Selected Works 1978 Musical Heritage Society
• H'Art Songs 1978 Kopf
• A New Sound Of An Old Instrument 1979 Kopf
• Bracelli 1986 Kakaphone

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Cassettes

• Facets 1981 Managarm

CDs

• Elpmas 1992 Kopf
• Moondog + Moondog II 1992 Columbia
• Big Band 1995 Trimba
• Alphorn Of Plenty 1995 Hat Art
• To A Grain Of Rice 1996 Paradise Records
• Sax Pax For A Sax with the London Saxophonic (1997) Kopf
• Moondog Vol. 1 & 2 2000 Beat Goes On
• The German Years 1977-1999 2004 ROOF Music
• Un hommage a moondog 2005 trAce label
• Bracelli und Moondog 2005 Laska Records
• Rare Material 2006 ROOF Music

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Tracks on compilations

• Fill Your Head With Rock 1970 CBS
• The Big Lebowski motion picture soundtrack 1998 Mercury
• Fsuk Vol. 3: The Future Sound of the United Kingdom 1998 Fsuk
• Miniatures 2 2000 Cherry Red

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Moondog's music performed by other musicians

• Moondog and Suncat Suite (1957) by British Jazz musician Kenny Graham, featuring one side of interpretations of the work of Moondog.
• "All Is Loneliness" by Big Brother and the Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin (1967)
• "Moon Dog" by Pentangle (1968)
• Canons on the Keys by Paul Jordan, 1978 (unreleased)
• "Theme and Variations" performed by John Fahey on the album Rain Forests, Oceans, and Other Themes (1985) [1]
• "Crescent Moon March" covered as "For You Blue" by Laibach on Let It Be, 1988
• Lovechild Plays Moondog 7" on Forced Exposure (1990)
• "Synchrony Nr. 2" by Kronos Quartet (1997)
• Trees Against The Sky compilation album 1998 SHI-RA-Nui 360°
• "All Is Loneliness" by Antony and the Johnsons, live (2005)
• "Sidewalk Dances" - Joanna MacGregor (2005) Sound Circus SC010
• "Bird's Lament (In Memory of Charlie Parker)" was sampled and used extensively on the song "Get a Move On" by the DJ Mr Scruff.

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External links

• Life and Times of Moondog
• Moondog's Corner - The Official Moondog Website
• Interview with Moondog, May 1998
• Stefan Lakatos, Sweden, Moondog interpreter on the Trimba
• Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland
• 2006 London Jazz Festival - Bach Meets Moondog - Joanna MacGregor
• 2003 Britten Sinfonia Moondog tour with Joanna MacGregor