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  • Los Panchos's Mexicantos LP cover

    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...
  • Vasantrao Deshpande LP

    Vasantrao Deshpande's musical career sparked by Begum Akhtar

    Vasantrao Deshpande was an eminent Indian artist best known for his contributions to vocal classical music and the...
  • Roman numerals indicating chords of minor and major scales

    Popular songs showing the submediant chord in all diatonic modes

    In musical theory, the submediant refers to the sixth scale degree of the diatonic scale, and the triad rooted in the...
  • Muskrat Love by T.E.J. Records

    Muskrat Love: the polarizing song of America

    Muskrat Love is a sweet and slightly strange song about a romantic relationship between two anthropomorphic muskrats,...
  • Godebski Reunion of Musicians by Georges d'Espagnat. Schmitt, De Severac, Calvocoressi, Godebski & son, Roussel, Vines (at piano), Ravel.

    Miroirs: Ravel's piano suite that put his avant-garde friends to work

    Miroirs or Mirrors is an essential piano suite by the French impressionist Maurice Ravel, each movement of which is...
  • Queen CD cover

    Seven Seas of Rhye: song of imaginary land brought to life by Ionian and Mixolydian modes

    Seven Seas of Rhye first appeared as an instrumental track on Queen's 1973 self-titled debut album and later released as...

  • A Dios le Pido: Juanes' Spanish lyrics behind the song success

    A Dios le Pido or I beg to God is the best-known track of the Colombian songwriter and guitarist Juanes who made history...
  • Scene from Whoopee, 1930

    Makin' Whoopee: cautionary song warning against the trappings of marriage

    Makin' Whoopee is an ironic song describing the successive transformation of the relationship between two lovers from...
  • Symphonic Adiemus by Karl Jenkins

    The meaningless song lyrics of Adiemus

    Adiemus is a cross-genre project conceived by Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist Karl Jenkins to refresh...
  • Knights of Cydonia by Muse

    Knights of Cydonia: Dorian-mode refrain boosting best Muse song

    Knights of Cydonia by English alternative rock band Muse has been repeatedly placed at the top of many fan-voted charts...
  • Mariposa Traicionera by Maná

    Mariposa Traicionera: meaning and flamenco roots of Maná's top hit

    Mariposa Traicionera is one of the best-known tracks by Maná, a multi-awarded Mexican quartet whose flexible style...
  • Shiv Parvati Vivah by Raja Ravi Varma

    Mrityunjaya Mantra: meaning and lyrics of the oldest Shiva chant

    The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra lyrics first appeared as a verse in the Rigveda—a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns composed...
  • Terracotta Plate Attributed to the Chimaera Painter

    6 songs combining harmonic minor and Aeolian mode

    The polyphonic structure of Western classical music distinguishes it from other musical traditions such as Indian...
  • Grateful Dead by Herb Greene

    Mexicali Blues: debut song by the Grateful Dead's psychedelic poet

    Mexicali Blues was first released by Bob Weir, an acclaimed rhythm guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of the...
  • Dance of Death replica of 15th century fresco

    Danse Macabre: skeletal images in Saint Saens' iconic xylophone

    The concept of the Danse Macabre (literally meaning the Dance of Death) dates back to the Medieval period when European...
  • Exile on Main St. LP cover

    Tumbling Dice: hundred reels of tape for a messy Rolling Stones mix

    Tumbling Dice is the lead single from the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. released in 1972, infamous for its...
  • Livin' la Vida Loca LP

    Livin' la Vida Loca: why is Ricky Martin's best song so catchy?

    Livin' la Vida Loca is likely one of the best-known tracks in the entire repertoire of the Puerto Rican...
  • Three Little Fishies by Art Gentry

    Three Little Fishies: origin of the cautionary children's song

    Three Little Fishies is a well-known novelty song with cautionary tale lyrics that was first recorded by the Hal Kemp...
  • Cape Fiolent by Ivan Aivazovsky

    Suite bergamasque: did Debussy record his best-known piano piece?

    Suite bergamasque is one of the best-known piano works of the French impressionist Claude Debussy written in 1890 and...
  • Townes Van Zandt

    Pancho and Lefty: gangster song that saved Townes Van Zandt from a speeding ticket

    Pancho and Lefty is perhaps the best-known song of American songwriter Townes Van Zandt released on his sixth studio...

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