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Outsourcing Doskdom

Hildegard von Bingen

"Frankly, Jackie Paper, I’ve done all I can with strings and sealing wax."

'That was Charlie Parker's 'Ornithology.' I threw in a flat nine in bar 16 and a tritone substitution in bar 22. Who noticed that? Hands up if you noticed!'

Art Garfunkel.

"The times – They have a changed."

Great Moments in Musical Inspiration

An Intimate Union forms between Napster and the Pygmy Sub-Area of Central Africa...

"When it comes to good, old-fashioned roots music, this guy is the BEST!"

I love Harmonica

'Look Clara, I'm telling you for the last time, it's not me who's crazy. It's Eusebius.'

The Lost Tribe

"And now, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto, Number One, first movement."

"This next song is about unbridled corporate greed and its propensity to decimate the planet … I hope you like it."

World Of Cow - 'If you must know, it's my Birthday and I happen to be great friends with Bob Dylan.'

"Now version of 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'."

"Yes it's Mozart...but is it evidence-based Mozart?"

'...Stop trying to funk it up.'

Bob Dylan

Another musical treatise from the 16th century is discovered.

'This next one I wrote myself. It's about pain, misery and heartbreak, until I finally wised up and dumped him.'

Vivaldi and his creative partner

Two people play the guitar and harmonica.

"Here's one I wrote myself. It's called 'Blues for the Guy I'm Laying Off.'"

Richard Wagner

Mykola Lysenko

"Do you have the 'Oxford Companion to Michael Jackson'?"

"This machine kills fascists, and this machine kills fascists, and this one is just a guitar."

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

"This machine isn't killing fascists."

Spinning violinist

Leos Janacek

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

'Everybody stand back! I'm an ethnomusicologist.'

Ceilidh Minogue.