Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Hava Nagila - Karaoke



Transliteration Hebrew text English translation
Hava nagila
הבה נגילה
Let's rejoice
Hava nagila
הבה נגילה
Let's rejoice
Hava nagila ve-nismeḥa
הבה נגילה ונשמחה
Let's rejoice and be happy
(repeat)
Hava neranenah
הבה נרננה
Let's sing
Hava neranenah
הבה נרננה
Let's sing
Hava neranenah ve-nismeḥa
הבה נרננה ונשמחה
Let's sing and be happy
(repeat)
Uru, uru aḥim!
!עורו, עורו אחים
Awake, awake, my brothers!
Uru aḥim be-lev sameaḥ
עורו אחים בלב שמח
Awake my brothers with a happy heart
(repeat line four times)
Uru aḥim, uru aḥim!
!עורו אחים, עורו אחים
Awake, my brothers, awake, my brothers!
Be-lev sameaḥ

Sunday, May 22, 2016

The Oldest Surviving Examples of Music

While browsing today's Reddit front page, I stumbled on curious topic, "What is the oldest surviving piece of music" and I thought that it would be interesting hear how sounded the music somewhere closer to its roots. So the Reddit Research Institute pointed very fast to the answer and I found it rather fascinating.

The 2200 year old Seikilos Epitaph (direct link to the music) is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world. There also is Hurrian hymn n6, which is 3400 years old but there are some issues with the reconstruction, however we can get somewhat the idea of what used to sound like that melody.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Loituma - Ievan Polkka rare techno version live


Now I am on wave to search for rare music video clips and I'll be posting the most interesting of them. Here I found this rare techno version of the Loituma's Ievan Polokka and actually I like it even better then the original. Listen and enjoy!

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Carmina Burana - O Fortuna


Carl Orff's masterpiece O Fortuna, based on 13th century poem:

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!


Friday, April 22, 2016

The Hobbit - Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold from Clamavi De Profundis



First make sure you have quality speakers, because there is a lot going on in therms of instrumental and vocal performance. As far as I understand this particular version is a family project and it is so long, that there is actually second part. If you want to learn more, check the info box in the youtube's page of the song.

Friday, April 08, 2016

El Condor Pasa


On the video we can see an instrumental interpretation of the group "Espiritu Andino". It is an old South American folk song. The lyrics in Quechua:

Kuntur phawan (Yaw kuntur)

Yaw kuntur llaqtay urqupi tiyaq
maymantam qawamuwachkanki,
kuntur, kuntur
apallaway llaqtanchikman, wasinchikman
chay chiri urqupi, kutiytam munani,
kuntur, kuntur.

Qusqu llaqtapim plazachallanpim
suyaykamullaway,
Machu Piqchupi Wayna Piqchupi
purikunanchikpaq.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Little Mammoth's Mother


Mainly for Russian speakers. Old good Russian animated cartoon. There really were good artists years ago.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

God Save the Queen - Mic Conway


I found this while browsing youtube. God Save the Queen by Mic Conway's Whoopee Band (1990). Nice ukulele performance.
Lyrics (I think the original is Sex Pistols'):

"God Save The Queen"

God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb

God save the queen
She ain't no human being
There is no future
In England's dreaming

Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need
There's no future, no future,
No future for you

God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves

God save the queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems

Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid

When there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers in the dustbin
We're the poison in your human machine
We're the future, your future

God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves

God save the queen
We mean it man
And there is no future
In England's dreaming

No future, no future,
No future for you
No future, no future,
No future for me

No future, no future,
No future for you
No future, no future
For you

See more: Mic Conway