I can only memorize about two piano pieces at a time, though neither of them is "Yankee Doodle". The second piece varies (right now it's "Fascinating Rhythm", mostly) but the constant is the second movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 545. It's embedded in my finger memory due to a year's worth of practice for a piano recital ages ago. Here is it, played by someone who does it better than I do.
ADDENDUM: Here, for Otepoti, is the version of Fascinating Rhythm in my head (but again, played much better than I could hope to).
My version is up to 1:00. Recording quality ain't great here.
Oh, I learned this one as a self-improvement exercise, too! It put some perspective on my efforts to remember that a. Mozart tossed it off as a money-spinner when he was a bit short, and b. he called it "a little sonata for beginners"!
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Otepoti
So I was wondering, why on earth would anyone have "Fascinating Rhythm" stuck in their head, and then I remembered - this is DarwinCatholic, isn't it? :-)
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Loved that, thank you Mrs Darwin. Especially I loved the photos of the cute grandchildren in the background when he left the piano. I wonder if he recorded himself as a video letter to them?
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