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當愛回到過去/When Love Has Gone Past

[Music & Lyrics by Karen Chang/Vocal by Evelyn Chen/Drums by Tom Scrase/Bass by Steve Moodie/Acoustic & Nylon String Guitar by Shane Robertson/Piano by Peniel Chung/Backing vocals by Karen Chang]

[All songs arranged, produced, recorded, mixed and mastering by Karen Chang]

城市裡稀薄空氣  讓我聞到了你的氣息
來來往往人群中  尋找著你熟悉身影
在我的眼裡在我的心裡  你是我唯一回憶

看著你和他的照片  告訴著我他心裡的你
電話裡溫柔聲音  是再也回不到的過去
夢想沒實現對你的思念  全部放進我心底

當愛回到過去  觸動我心中旋律
你的笑容你的背影  是那麼陌生又熟悉
當愛回到過去  讓琴弦將它忘記
遙遠距離隨風飄逸  只剩下鋼琴的回音

就讓愛隨風飄逸

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Jazzed up edition. Found it on an Italian site that has many other great Jazz pieces.

Source

This melody has been in my mind for years. I even made a midi version from my memory to remind myself at the beginning of this year. Finally when I decide to write a letter to my Music 100 teacher back in Mesa, only finding out she is not teaching there anymore. After a little googling, I found her name listed on San Diego Music Teachers Association of California, and the site kindly provides a page to mail instructors using the form provided. I mailed her along with a link to the midi/mp3 I made to ask her for the name of the song, but with no faith that the mail would be delivered to her inbox. Guess what, I got a reply! She was able to tell which song it was from the poor melody I put together.

That’s the tenor chorale from JS Bach’s Cantata #140 “Wachet Auf”. It really s beautiful.

Again, google has guided me to this page: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, where I find exactly what I was looking for, for years. The audio is performed by MIT Concert Choir (Cutter) and under Creative Common Attribution ShareAlike 1.0 License. I converted the ogg file into mp3 and here it is:

I just love it.

Here is a short piece of melody that has stayed in my mind since I took Music 100 long long time ago. Recently I put it together with my poor music-sheet-composition-with-a-mouse skill. Here are the links:

• Synthesized MP3, 503KB
  
• Original MIDI, 1.56KB

If you happen to know the name of this tune, please tell me.

手邊沒照相機也沒有掃描器, 不過這張 CD 是由一位曾經在身邊的可愛女生所創作的. 考完再來補述詳細內容, 順便來個 review + 官網好了.