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  • Jairo Varela

    Cali Pachanguero: meaning behind essential Colombian salsa by Jairo Varela

    Cali Pachanguero is one of the best-known salsa songs that played a big part in the rising popularity of Colombian dance...
  • Kumar Gandharva

    Kumar Gandharva and the perseverance of musical spirit over disease

    Kumar Gandharva was an eminent vocalist who sang Hindustani ragas and Carnatic devotional songs while also exploring...
  • Roman numerals indicating chords of minor and major scales

    Popular songs showing the mediant chord in all diatonic modes

    In musical theory, the mediant refers to the third scale degree of the diatonic scale, and the triad rooted in the third...
  • Jethro Tull LP cover

    Locomotive Breath: fine groove born from Jethro Tull's studio session

    Locomotive Breath is one of the more popular songs written by the British prog-rock band Jethro Tull, first released on...
  • Iguacu Falls Brazil

    Gabriel's Oboe: soulful Morricone tune that soothes the Iguazu Falls

    Gabriel's Oboe is a short instrumental piece written by Ennio Morricone for a key scene in Roland Joffé's period drama...
  • Ferry Cross the Mersey film poster

    Ferry Cross the Mersey: Merseybeat classic arranged by the Fifth Beatle

    Ferry Cross the Mersey is the best-known track of the Liverpool rock band Gerry and the Pacemakers released in the...
  • Abraxas LP cover

    Oye Como Va: meaning and origin of the best-known cha-cha-chá song

    Oye Como Va is one of the best-known cha-cha-chá songs, owing its unfading popularity to Carlos Santana who recorded his...
  • Roxy Music LP cover

    Ladytron: Roxy Music's lunar landing with mellotron, oboe, and synth

    Ladytron is one of Roxy Music's most noteworthy tracks released on their 1972 debut album. One of the song's strongest...
  • Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress by Diego Velázquez

    Pavane for a Dead Princess: who inspired Ravel's early piano piece?

    Pavane pour une infante défunte or Pavane for a Dead Princess is a well-known piano piece with a leisurely and charming...
  • Flowers by Childed

    4 best stereo techniques to record nature sounds

    The best time to record woodland sounds of crickets is at the very beginning of autumn when birdsongs have gone mostly...
  • The Day the Music Died by Civil Aeronautics Board

    La Bamba: meaning and tragedy behind the best-known son jarocho

    The widely known La Bamba epitomizes one of the most striking examples of the ways in which an old folk tune could be...
  • Vishnu On Sheshnag by Raja Ravi Varma

    Vishnu Sahasranama: chant meaning and complete lyrics by Subbulakshmi

    Sahasranāma, literally meaning a thousand names in Sanskrit, is a common term for Dharmic religions of the Indian...
  • Terracotta Kylix Attributed to the Pistoxenos Painter

    6 songs to unpack Ionian mode and the major scale

    The polyphonic aspects of Western classical music distinguish it from other musical traditions such as Indian Сlassic...
  • Garcia 1972 LP cover

    Sugaree: Jerry Garcia's song referencing his lyricist's criminal past

    Sugaree is a 1972 track that first appeared on Jerry Garcia's debut solo album, the guitarist who is widely regarded as...
  • The Country Dance by William Hogarth inspired Kubrick's interior scenes

    Handel's Sarabande: obscure keyboard suite that found its iconic orchestration in Barry Lyndon movie

    The sarabande is a fiery carnival dance that originated in the 16th century in Central America and then spread to Spain...
  • Lloyd Price

    Lawdy Miss Clawdy: how Lloyd Price's first hit mixes blues and classics

    Lawdy Miss Clawdy is a rhythm and blues track that kicked off the career of the prolific New Orleans songwriter Lloyd...
  • Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show LP cover

    Marie Laveau: ballad of the legendary Voodoo Queen

    Dedicated to the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau was composed by award-winning writer Shel...
  • Boudha Stupa by Nabin K. Sapkota

    Shurangama Mantra as a vital Buddhist practice to save the universe and achieve enlightenment

    Shurangama Mantra is the longest Buddhist chant highly revered in Tibet and China, where it is considered to be the...
  • The Peanut Vendor

    El Manisero: essential rumba song behind Caribbean music world expasion

    El Manisero or The Peanut Vendor is an essential rumba song written circa 1928 by the leading Cuban composer Moisés...
  • Les Indes Galantes

    Les Indes Galantes: Rameau's controversial opera as the essence of Rococo style

    Les Indes Galantes is Jean-Philippe Rameau's first stage work in the opéra-ballet form with a prologue and four entrées...

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