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Mantra of Avalokiteshvara: meaning and purpose of popular Buddhist chants
Popular songs featuring the Phrygian mode and Neapolitan chord
Popular songs using the Lydian mode
Mixolydian mode: famous examples of the Mixolydian major scale in classical and pop music
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Oye Como Va: meaning and origin of the best-known cha-cha-chá song
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La Bamba: meaning and tragedy behind the best-known son jarocho
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6 songs to unpack Ionian mode and the major scale
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Sugaree: Jerry Garcia's song referencing his lyricist's criminal past
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Lawdy Miss Clawdy: how Lloyd Price's first hit mixes blues and classics
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Marie Laveau: ballad of the legendary Voodoo Queen
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Caldonia: the song that spawned the term rock and roll
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Statesboro Blues: no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell
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1930s
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Hushabye: folk roots of famous rock and roll lullaby
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1950s
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1960s
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Mairzy Doats lyrics inspired by 15th century nursery rhyme
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Coal Miner's Daughter was forced to remove a third of the lyrics from her autobiographical song
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1960s
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1970s
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Incense and Peppermints: a tangled story of song production
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Wabash Cannonball: the ballad of the railway Flying Dutchman
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1930s
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Last Train to Clarksville: a duo of songwriters behind the first Monkees hit
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1960s
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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: the reveille that defined a generation
USA
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Lully's Passacaglia of Armide revised by Bear McCreary in Outlander score
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Soundtrack
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Baroque
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2010s
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Iron Butterfly's longest song anticipated metal genres
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Rock
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1960s
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Minnie the Moocher: essential step in the history of scat singing by Cab Calloway
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1930s
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8 songs to introduce Aeolian mode and natural minor scale
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Foxey Lady and the Hendrix chord
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1960s
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Bogner Shiva: boutique guitar amplifier found its tracking in metal genres
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Plagal cadence exemplified by 9 songs in all diatonic modes
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I Wanna Be Sedated: pure classical harmony cementing the Ramones' hit in punk rock history
USA
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Rock
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1970s
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Taking off with Pistol Packin' Mama
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1940s
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Maybellene: Chuck Berry changed the lyrics of his first hit while recording
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7 songs featuring Mixolydian mode
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1960s
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1970s
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Subterranean Homesick Blues popularized Dylan's idea of an official lyric video
USA
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Folk
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Rock
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1960s
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Shaman's Blues: quintessential The Doors song refined their most controversial album
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Rock
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1960s
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Om Namah Shivaya: chant meaning and lyrics diversity in songs set in Panchakshari Mantra
India
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USA
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Devotional Song
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Mantra
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Indian Classical
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Smokestack Lightning: the eternal Howlin' Wolf blues of the passing trains
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