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Greensleeves: the folk melody behind Vaughan Williams' Fantasia
Greensleeves is one of the best-known English folk melodies, first published in 1580 as a broadside ballad titled A Newe...
SONGWRITER
Porque Te Vas: origin and meaning behind Jeanette's best song
Porque Te Vas is the most influential ballad recorded by Janette Anne Dimech, known professionally as Jeanette, which...
SONGWRITER
La Cucaracha: the song about a stoned legless cockroach as a ridicule against Mexican dictator
La Cucaracha is a fiery Mexican song in the corrido style, a poetic form of the ballad genre prevalent in Central...
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Music Theory
5 songs featuring Dorian mode
Out of all seven diatonic scales, the major and minor scales have been the two most prevalent in Western music...
Poetry
On the Massacre of Glencoe: Walter Scott lyrics set to Beethoven's arrangement of folk melody
The Massacre of Glencoe is one of the darkest chapters in Scottish history which saw the treacherous slaughter of...
Poetry
Down by the Salley Gardens: famous Yeats poem evoking old Irish love ballad was set to the traditional air
Down by the Salley Gardens is a famous two-stanza poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats whose contribution to the...
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Authentic recreation of Alfonso X El Sabio's medieval works
Alfonso X el Sabio, byname Alfonso the Wise, or the Learned (1221-1284) was the king of Castile and Leon. Along with his...
SONGWRITER
Who is the true architect behind The House of the Rising Sun?
The authorship of The House of the Rising Sun can not be accurately determined to this day, since the song is a folk...
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