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Cuccurucucù
"Cuccurucucù" is a 1981 song by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, from his best-selling album ''La voce del padrone''. Background The song's lyrics consists of fragments of memories of Battiato's youth, even if some biographical verses were eventually modified and adjusted for metric and sound purposes, eg. ' Istituto Magistrale' replacing 'Liceo Classico'. The title as well as the refrain and part of the melody are citations of Tomás Méndez' "Cucurrucucú paloma". The song also includes citations and references to other songs which marked Battiato's adolescence, including Bob Dylan's " Just Like a Woman" and "Like a Rolling Stone", The Beatles' "Lady Madonna" and "With a Little Help from My Friends", The Rolling Stones' " Ruby Tuesday" (which Battiato will eventually cover in his album '' Fleurs''), Mina's " Le mille bolle blu", Nicola Di Bari's "Il mondo è grigio, il mondo è blu", and Milva's "Il mare nel cassetto". Lyrics also contain citations from Homer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Voce Del Padrone (album)
''La voce del padrone'' is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, released by EMI Italiana in 1981. The album followed ''L'era del cinghiale bianco'' (1979) and ''Patriots'' (1980), which signaled a return by Battiato to a more pop-oriented style. Besides being Battiato's first pop success, it was also the first Italian LP to sell more than one million copies. Overview Before ''L'era del cinghiale bianco'' Battiato had begun to collaborate with violinist and composer Giusto Pio. In ''La voce del padrone'' Battiato could rely on Pio's collaboration too, even if violin was never used in the scores. Album The album is a mixture of synthpop, dance and progressive. " Bandiera Bianca" quotes " Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan, while "Cuccurucucù" borrows the refrain from the Tomás Méndez song "Cucurrucucú paloma". The better known songs of this album are "Summer on a Solitary Beach", "Bandiera bianca" and " Centro di gravità permanente". Track listing # "Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucurrucucú Paloma
"Cucurrucucú paloma" (Spanish for ''Coo-coo dove'') is a Mexican huapango-style song written by Tomás Méndez in 1954. The title is an onomatopeic reference to the characteristic call of the mourning dove, which is evoked in the refrain. The lyrics allude to love sickness. Over the years the song has been used in the soundtrack of several films and has gained international popularity. It initially appeared in the classic Mexican comedy ''Escuela de vagabundos'' screened in 1955, where it was sung by the star of the film, Pedro Infante. The song also gave its name to the 1965 Mexican film '' Cucurrucucú Paloma'', directed by Miguel Delgado, in which it was performed by Lola Beltrán, who starred as "Paloma Méndez". In Pedro Almodovar's film '' Talk to Her'' (2002) the piece is rendered by the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso in an art-song style quite different from the mariachi folk-kitsch of its original cinema presentation. Other films in which the song is used inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Battiato
Francesco "Franco" Battiato (; 23 March 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs explore many themes (including, but not limited to, philosophy, art, spirituality, science, introspection, innovation, Western esotericism, esotericism, religiousness), and have spanned genres such as experimental pop, electronic music, minimal music, minimalism, Avant-garde music, avant-garde, progressive rock, new wave music, new wave, symphonic music, sound collage, opera, oratorio and movie soundtrack. He was for decades one of the most popular singer-songwriters in Italy. His unique sound, song-crafting and especially his lyrics (often containing philosophical, intellectual and culturally exotic references, as well as tackling universal themes about the human condition) earned him a unique spot on Italy's music scene, and the nickname of "Maestro, Il Maestro". His work includes songwriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Singles
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Scherzo
A scherzo (, , ; plural scherzos or scherzi), in western classical music, is a short composition – sometimes a movement from a larger work such as a symphony or a sonata. The precise definition has varied over the years, but scherzo often refers to a movement that replaces the minuet as the third movement in a four-movement work, such as a symphony, sonata, or string quartet. The term can also refer to a fast-moving humorous composition that may or may not be part of a larger work. Origins The Italian word ''scherzo'' means " joke" or "jest." More rarely, the similar-meaning word ''badinerie'' (also spelled ''battinerie''; from French, "jesting") has been used. Sometimes the word ''scherzando'' ("joking") is used in musical notation to indicate that a passage should be executed in a playful manner. An early use of the word ''scherzo'' in music is in light-hearted madrigals of the early baroque period, which were often called ''scherzi musicali'', for example: * Claud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dadaist
Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had spread to New York City and a variety of artistic centers in Europe and Asia. Within the umbrella of the movement, people used a wide variety of artistic forms to protest the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalism and modern war. To develop their protest, artists tended to make use of nonsense, irrationality, and an anti-bourgeois sensibility. The art of the movement began primarily as performance art, but eventually spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up technique, cut-up writing, and sculpture. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent toward violence, war, and nationalism and maintained political affinities with radical politics on the left-wing and far-left politics. The movem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Serra
Michele Serra (born 10 July 1954) is an Italian journalist, writer, and satirist. Biography Serra was born in Rome, but moved to Milan in 1959. In 1975 he started working for ''L'Unità'', then the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). Serra is a long-time left-wing supporter, although he abandoned PCI's successor, the Partito Democratico della Sinistra, in 1991, because of dissent against the party's directions. In 1986, he began to write satire for ''L'Unità'' satiric supplement ''Tango'', winning the Satire Prize Forte dei Marmi the same year. In 1987 he also started collaborating for Mondadori's weekly '' Epoca'', but abandoned it in 1990, when the publisher house was acquired by right-winged tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. In 1989, ''Tango'' was replaced by ''Cuore'' as ''L'Unitàs satirical supplement, and Serra was appointed by Massimo D'Alema as its director. ''Cuore'' was published weekly independently starting from 1991. In the same period Serra also be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuni Russo
Giuseppa Romeo (7 September 1951 – 13 September 2004), known professionally as Giuni Russo (), was an Italian singer who specialised in experimental music after a short successful stint as an art-pop singer in the early 1980s. With her five-octaves range, she could produce extremely high notes and experimental sounds. She sang in Italian, English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Latin. Biography Giuseppa Romeo was born in Palermo, Sicily, on 7 September 1951, the eighth of nine siblings. Busy with several family matters, her father Pietro registered her three days later, on 10 September. As a child, singing was more important to Russo than playing or studying. She was often asked to perform at school. Her teacher offered her own desk to Russo to be used as a stage, but she was so shy she preferred to perform while hiding behind the classroom door. Her first public appearance was on a small stage actors from the Politeama Theatre in Palermo. With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iliad
The ''Iliad'' (; , ; ) is one of two major Ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Odyssey'', the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version. The ''Iliad'' is often regarded as the first substantial piece of Western literature, European literature and is a central part of the Epic Cycle. Set towards the end of the Trojan War, a ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean Greek states, the poem depicts significant events in the war's final weeks. In particular, it traces the anger () of Achilles, a celebrated warrior, from a fierce quarrel between him and King Agamemnon, to the death of the Trojan prince Hector.Homer, ''Iliad, Volume I, Books 1–12'', translated by A. T. Murray, revised by William F. Wyatt, Loeb Classical Library 170, Cambridge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homer
Homer (; , ; possibly born ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Despite doubts about his authorship, Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history. The ''Iliad'' centers on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the last year of the Trojan War. The ''Odyssey'' chronicles the ten-year journey of Odysseus, king of Homer's Ithaca, Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. The epics depict man's struggle, the ''Odyssey'' especially so, as Odysseus perseveres through the punishment of the gods. The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a literary language that shows a mixture of features of the Ionic Greek, Ionic and Aeolic Greek, Aeolic dialects from different centuries; the predominant influence is Eastern Ionic. Most researchers believe that the poems w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milva
Maria Ilva Biolcati, (; 17 July 1939 – 23 April 2021), known as Milva (), was an Italian singer, stage and film actress, and television personality. She was also known as ''La Rossa'' (Italian for "The Redhead"), due to the characteristic colour of her hair, and additionally as ''La Pantera di Goro'' ("The Panther of Goro, Emilia–Romagna, Goro"), which stemmed from the Italian press having nicknamed the three most popular Italian female singers of the 1960s, combining the names of animals and the singers' birthplaces. The colour also characterised her leftist political beliefs, claimed in numerous statements. Popular in Italy and abroad, she performed on musical and theatrical stages the world over, and received popular acclaim in her native Italy, and particularly in Germany and Japan, where she often participated in musical events and televised musical programmes. She released numerous albums in France, Japan, Korea, Greece, Spain, and South America. She collaborated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
