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  • My Lady Greensleeves by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    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...
  • Amjad Ali Khan LP cover

    Amjad Ali Khan: the revered classical player whose ancestors canonized the sarod

    Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is among the most honored Indian virtuosos whose musical skill was nurtured in the tradition of his...
  • Bruce Springsteen's LP cover

    Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out: nonsensical song title that reveals Springsteen's band origin story

    Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out was first released on Bruce Springsteen's breakthrough album Born to Run and remains one of his...
  • Pink Floyd's Animals LP cover

    Mixolydian mode in Pink Floyd songs

    The Western music theory as we know it traditionally uses three major diatonic scales. Each scale's harmonic structure...
  • Pedro Navaja CD cover

    Pedro Navaja: song meaning and origin of the lyrics

    Pedro Navaja is a true pop culture statement of a song written by Panamanian Latin-jazz musician Rubén Blades and...
  • Exposition Universelle de Paris

    Estampes: the world cultures of Debussy's imagination

    Estampes, conceived as a three-piece piano suite by the French Impressionist Claude Debussy, is rightfully recognized as...
  • Spring at Spivaki Records

    Spring soundscapes featuring a song thrush

    Of all the songbirds in the northern hemisphere, the nightingale clearly stands out for its deep vocal overtones and...
  • Fleetwood Mac's Rhiannon single cover

    Rhiannon: The Fleetwood Mac song that made the list of popular girls' names

    Rhiannon is one of the best-known Fleetwood Mac tracks originally recorded for their 1975 eponymous album and released...
  • The Beatles' Twist and Shout single cover

    Beatles songs composed with just three primary chords

    The harmonic analysis of The Beatles' output reveals their particular devotion to the Ionian mode, which is found in...
  • A Quien Quiera Escuchar CD cover

    La Mordidita: meaning behind the three-chord Latin hit

    La Mordidita is a notable Latin dance hit released by Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin in 2015. The song was written by...
  • Ave verum corpus LP cover

    Ave verum corpus: influential Mozart score for the crucial Catholic chant

    Ave verum corpus is one of the best-known sacramental chants that originated in the Medieval period and has since been...
  • Ganesh statue by Musictales.club

    Vinayagar Agaval: medieval lyrics linking Ganesha with yoga practice

    Vinayagar Agaval is a popular sacred hymn of South India praising Ganesh—one of the most worshipped deities in the Hindu...
  • Blue Sky – Night Thunder LP cover

    Carolina in the Pines: origins of Michael Murphey's love song

    Carolina in the Pines is a seminal track by Michael Murphey, a highly influential country-genre artist with over thirty...
  • The Doors' Bring Out Your Dead LP

    The Doors songs with Aeolian and harmonic minor modes

    Known since the Baroque era, the homophonic texture remains the most convenient songwriting technique based on the...
  • Súbeme la Radio single cover

    Súbeme la Radio: meaning and harmony behind the hot dance hit

    Súbeme la Radio is a 2017 Latin dance track recorded by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias in collaboration with Cuban...
  • Je te veux original sheet сover

    Je te veux: Satie's love song refashioned as piano piece

    Je te veux is one of the best-known pieces by the French Romantic composer Erik Satie, famous for popularizing his...
  • Nature sounds at Spivaki records

    Relaxing magic of a spring thunderstorm recorded in the woods

    It is no secret that regular listening to records with sounds of pristine nature contributes to relaxation and stress...
  • Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy LP cover

    Rhinestone Cowboy: origins of Glen Campbell's best-known track

    Rhinestone Cowboy is a notable country track that hit the tops of global charts in the 1970s, extending beyond the...
  • Led Zeppelin Box Set cover

    Lydian mode in Led Zeppelin songs

    The musical output of the English rock band Led Zeppelin can be confidently classified as classically oriented. More...
  • Ricky Martin's Vente Pa' Ca cd cover

    Vente Pa' Ca: surprising harmony behind Ricky Martin's party song

    Vente Pa' Ca is a 2016 dance track recorded by award-winning Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin featuring Colombian...

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