Category: Traditional song

Thame sgths mi leam fhin (in Scottish Gaelic , “I’m tired and I’m alone”), is an old Gaelic song.

This Land Is Your Land is one of the most famous folk songsof the United States . The lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie in 1940 on an existing music, and that, in response to God Bless America by Irving Berlin he considered unrealistic and sufficient. Tired of hearing Kate Smith sing this song, he wrote a reply, God Blessed America for Me 1 , and changed the words in the interpretations, sometimes adding to …

La Tolosenca ( La Toulousaine ou Ò mon país ) is an Occitan songwritten by Lucien Mengaud with music by Louis Deffès composed in 1845.

Tri martolod (Three sailorsinBreton) is atraditional Breton song, made famous by the interpretation, the arrangement and the recordings made byAlan Stivell. This is a three-step round that we encounter on the whole coast of Brittany and more particularly in South Cornwall . You can also dance it in gavotte of Bas- Léon .

The pirekua is a traditional Tarascan song today among the P’urhépecha of the state of Michoacán, Mexico 1 . It has been classified as intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO on November 16 , 20102 .

The polyphony is a musical expertise, a singing practice – involving several musical parts – very much alive in the Pyrenees Gascon, that is to say in southern Gascony , in Pyrénées-Atlantiques ( Basque Country and Béarn ) and Hautes-Pyrénées 1 , ( Bigorre )

Por una cabeza is a very famous tango composed in 1935 by Carlos Gardel on a text by Alfredo Le Pera . This work was originally composed in A major 1 . It was then adapted to the violin and the piano sometimes in A major 2 , 3 , sometimes in G major 4 , 5 . The main motif is probably inspired by Mozart’s work: the Rondo in C major for violin and orchestra, KV 373 (some …

The valicha is a Peruvian song whose abbreviation quechua comes from the Spanish name Valeriana . It is the most traditional and popular of the Huaynos and is considered by the inhabitants of Cusco as the second hymn of the city. The composition of this theme was created in honor of a very popular woman from Cusco.

The Vieux Chalet is a Swiss song written in 1929 by Father Joseph Bovet .

The so- called “Flemish” vivat is a song with half-French and half-Latin lyrics formerly (and sometimes still) sung during festivals or weddings in the north of France. This Flemish vivat has other functions; it is most often sung during wedding dinners, but it can also accompany a birthday (birth or marriage 1 ), or even a personal success (bac, permit, promotion …) [ref. necessary]