This year's work features Susan Philipsz's sound installation of three separate versions
of a traditional folk song played simultaneously in otherwise empty gallery.
Not exact matches
The more ritualized yet contemporary music from Taizé (composed by Jacques Berthier) and the newly composed yet
folk - based
songs of the Iona Community in Scotland apparently smack too much
of traditional religion to find wide acceptance in the Next Church.
Just one bite
of a burrito, tostada, or quesadilla, and your taste buds will be singing
traditional Mexican
folk songs!
The trio's rootsy mix
of updated
traditional folk songs, rockabilly, surf, and country make for a concert the whole family can rock out to.
Music Together in Susquehanna Valley is proud to teach the Music Together © curriculum which includes an award - winning mix
of original
songs and
traditional tunes from a range
of musical styles, including
folk, blues, jazz, and world music.
The
song Llewyn chooses to perform is «The Death
of Queen Jane,» a gorgeous take on a
traditional folk ballad about Queen Jane Seymour's (not the medicine woman) death during childbirth as she pleads for a cesarean section to ensure the safety
of her as yet unborn child.
In each Kodály - inspired lesson we use a
traditional folk song to help develop understanding
of melodic and rhythmic concepts in three stages — Introduce, Identify, and Implement.
I tried to continue on, but I kept stopping to watch the scores
of street performers set up on every block or so playing everything from jazz, solo guitar, opera, Latin percussion, and
traditional folk songs.
Sam Amidon composes new tunes for
traditional folk ballads and an array
of cover
songs that he's attentively made his own.
As the youngest
of thirteen children born to Mexican immigrant parents, Hinojosa grew up listening to
traditional Mexican
songs as well as the pop and
folk stations
of the 60s on her parents» radio.
But how did a
traditional Scots
folk song — with lyrics that many people scarcely understand — emerge as one
of the world's most enduring popular
songs?
All lyrics and music on the album are written by Martin Creed, with the exception
of the New Shutters which is Martin's arrangement
of a
traditional Neapolitan
folk song.
After immigrating to the US in 2010, Tomah became a founding member
of the Liberian Women's Chorus for Change, which adapts Liberian
folk songs and creates new music in
traditional styles, in an effort to generate collective strength and to offer resources for change for Philadelphia's Liberian community.
««Good Night Sweetheart» (1931) is based on themes from Schubert's Symphony in C and Liszt's preludes»); ««The Lion Sleeps Tonight,» also known as «Wimoweh» — recorded by the Weavers in 1952 and the Tokens in 1961 — is based on a
traditional African
song»); and
folk songs based on religious tunes («[T] he melody
of [Bob] Dylan's first big hit, «Blowin» in the Wind,» was based on an antislavery spiritual, «No More Auction Block».