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SONGWRITER
Bony Moronie: blues roots of the seminal rock and roll hit
Bony Moronie is one of the best-known tracks of New Orleans singer Larry Williams which, along with his other songs, has...
PIANO
Le Tombeau de Couperin: Ravel's only wartime piece shaped by Baroque canons
The musical output of the leading French impressionist Maurice Ravel was almost completely halted by the arrival of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SONGWRITER
Suavemente: meaning of Elvis Crespo's best song
Suavemente is one of the best-known songs in the merengue genre—a dance style that originated in the Dominican Republic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 to...
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...
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...
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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 English...
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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...
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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...
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...
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