MUSIC

EY YO, EY YO VEN A MARBELLA, ES ESPECIAL – Cristina Spătar

Cristina Spătar – Marbella Ey yo, ey yo ven a Marbella, es especial. Ey yo, eu yo, es una aventura, muy sensual. I’m gonna be your only lover, forever stay by your side we’re gonna see the world together, oh oh oh. This night is gonna be your witness, making love on the sand, swear love under moonlight, moonlight. Give …

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY – Take me home, Country Road / John Denver

TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROAD > Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze. Country roads, take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia, mountain mamma, take me home, country roads. All my memories gather round her, miner’s lady, stranger to …

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY – One Dance, by Drake

ONE DANCE – Baby I like your style. Grips on your waist front way, back way.You know that I don’t play streets not safe, but I never run away, even when I’m away. Oti, oti, there’s never much love when we go. I pray to make it back in one piece. I pray, I pray. That’s why I need a …

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY – Maintenant je reviens, by Jean-Louis Aubert

MAINTENANT JE REVIENS > Maintenant je reviens, a ce que j’ai toujours été, je reviens a pied, reviens en février, maintenant je reviens, a ce pour quoi je suis fait, je reviens chanter, est-ce bien un métier? Je reviens de tout, ce qui n’est pas moi, non ce n’étais pas moi, je reviens vers vous, et je n’en reviens pas, …

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THE PERFECT ENCAPSULATION OF THE DREAMS – Venice and crucial role in the development of opera

Venice, city of corruption, sickness and decay? Not Only. Venice has also played a crucial role in the development of opera (perhaps more than you might expect). That city has been home to countless opera premieres, and for some of Italian operatic composers (Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi, Gioacchino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi). Rossini’s Otello is set entirely in Venice. …

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DANCES AND MUSIC FROM THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

Music was an essential part of civic, religious, and courtly life in the Renaissance. From the Renaissance era, both secular and sacred music survives in quantity. Renaissance music is music written in Europe during the Renaissance and has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and to close it around 1600. The exchange …

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DON’T THINK TWICE IT’S ALRIGHT – Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright > It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe it don’t matter, anyhow an’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe if you don’t know by now, when your rooster crows at the break of dawn. Look out your window and I’ll be gone, you’re the reason …

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SIA – Cheap thrills

Sia – Cheap Thrills > Up with it girl, rock with it girl, show dem it girl, bounce with it girl, dance with it girl, get with it girl. Come on, come on, turn the radio on. It’s Friday night and it won’t be long. Gotta do my hair, put my makeup on. It’s Friday night and it won’t be …

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THE IRISH BALLAD – Tom Leher

Tom Lehrer– The Irish ballad > About a maid I’ll sing a song, sing rickety-tickety-tin, about a maid I’ll sing a song who didn’t have her family long, not only did she do them wrong, she did every one of them in, them in she did every one of them in. One morning in a fit of pique, sing rickety-tickety-tin, …

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ROMAN GUITAR – Song, by Bruno di Lazzaro

Under a blanket of stars Roma looks beautiful to me. Lonely my heart, disillusioned of love, wants to sing in the shadow. A fountain wetsuit, and a balcony up there, oh Roman guitar, you accompany me. Plays, plays my guitar, letting crying my heart, without a home and without love, only you remain to me. If the voice is a …

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