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   Songwriter

   Garota De Ipanema: world's best-known bossa nova tune came to Jobim in a bar

   Garota De Ipanema is one of the best-known songs in the bossa nova genre, a dance style that originated in the 1950s as…

   June 9, 2021

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   Meditation

   Progressive rhythms and sacred themes of Shyama Shastri songs

   Syama Sastri was one of the most influential Indian composers of the 18th century whose extensive contributions to the…

   June 7, 2021

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   Music Theory

   Things We Said Today: the only Beatles song featuring Phrygian mode

   Things We Said Today is one of the tracks written by Paul McCartney for The Beatles's 1964 A Hard Day's Night, although…

   June 4, 2021

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   Songwriter

   Gimme Three Steps: the bar where Lynyrd Skynyrd's frontman almost got shot

   Gimme Three Steps is the best-known track from the 1973 debut album by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. The first…

   June 2, 2021

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   Film

   Concerning Hobbits: portraying home with the penny whistle

   Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001…

   May 31, 2021

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   Songwriter

   Firth of Fifth: impressionistic Genesis song as a prog-rock masterpiece

   Firth of Fifth is a ten-minute track released by Genesis on the 1973 album Selling England by the Pound and is…

   May 30, 2021

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   Songwriter

   Suavemente: meaning behind Elvis Crespo's merengue hit

   Suavemente means softly or gently in Spanish, and Elvis Crespo turned the word into the hook of one of the best-known…

   May 26, 2021

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   Songwriter

   Cum On Feel the Noize: Slade's instant hit recipe

   Cum On Feel the Noize is a 1973 single by the English glam rock band Slade that topped the charts a week after its…

   May 24, 2021

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   Oboe

   Marcello's Oboe Concerto arranged by Bach and mistakenly attributed to Vivaldi

   Concerto in D minor for oboe, strings, and continuo, also known as Marcello's Oboe Concerto, can rightfully be called a…

   May 21, 2021

10. 

    Songwriter

    Terraplane Blues: first song to compare car problems with intimate relationship

    Terraplane Blues is the first single released by Robert Johnson—a traveling blues performer deeply revered by many rock…

    May 18, 2021

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    Songwriter

    Mambo Italiano: Bob Merrill's meaningless lyrics composed on restaurant napkin

    Mambo Italiano is a timeless hit in the mambo genre written by American songwriter Bob Merrill in the 1950s on a…

    May 16, 2021

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    Meditation

    Hare Krishna Mantra: meaning and purpose of best-known Hindu chant

    The Hare Krishna mantra is a highly popular religious chant in India, the original lyrics of which can be traced back…

    May 15, 2021

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    Music Theory

    9 Beatles songs that combine harmonic major with Ionian mode

    The polyphonic structure of Western classical music distinguishes it from other musical traditions such as Indian…

    May 12, 2021

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    Songwriter

    D'yer Mak'er: meaning of Led Zeppelin's most controversial song

    D'yer Mak'er, released on Led Zeppelin's 1973 album Houses of the Holy, remains the most controversial track the band…

    May 10, 2021

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    Orchestra

    Dido's Lament: sadness and simplicity of Purcell's best-known song

    When I Am Laid In Earth or Dido's Lament is probably one of the saddest songs of the Baroque era, written by the…

    May 8, 2021

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    Violin

    Larks' Tongues in Aspic: the classic theme behind best prog-album opener

    Larks' Tongues in Aspic is a pentalogy of instrumental suites recorded by several generations of musicians for the…

    May 5, 2021

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    Songwriter

    El Farsante and 7 more songs by Ozuna in Dorian and Aeolian modes

    Few could have imagined that a career in music could have such an outstanding start as the one of Puerto Rican urbano…

    May 3, 2021

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    Songwriter

    Yakety Yak: teenager's answer to household chores in a hit song

    Yakety Yak is one of the best-known songs written by American songwriting partners Jerome Leiber and Michael Stoller…

    May 1, 2021

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    Film

    Hedwig’s Theme: magical mood cast by the celesta melody

    Hedwig's Theme, also known as the main theme of all eight Harry Potter films, was the first piece written by John…

    April 28, 2021

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    Songwriter

    I Shot the Sheriff: Burnin' spliff nearly destroyed Bob Marley's original recording

    I Shot The Sheriff is one of Bob Marley's best-known songs first released on the 1973 album Burnin' and popularized a…

    April 26, 20211 comment