Category: Traditional song

Lo Fiolaire (The spinner) is a popular song of Auvergne in langue d’oc . The piece was collected by the composer Joseph Canteloube between 1923 and 1930 and appears in the collection Chants d’Auvergne , where he arranged it for soprano and orchestra .

The Forges Girls is a pie-menu , traditional sung dance of Brittany , native of the region of Paimpont in the Ille et Vilaine.

Ein Heller und ein Batzen (in French : “A penny and a shield”) is a drinking song of German folklore composed around 1830 by Count Albert von Schlippenbach  (of) (1800-1886) on a popular melody of Prussia. Oriental 1 , 2.

Een devoot ende profitelyck boecxken (A small devout and profitable book) is a collection ofsongs Catholicconventional the xv th and xvi th centuries, printed by Symon Cock inAntwerpin1539 1 . This collection was to compete with the ” indecentprofane songs” ( “ontamelike, weerlike liedekens” ) 2 .

Ederlezi is a song presented by most of its performers as a traditional folk song ofthe Balkan Roma . It refers to the day of St. George’s Day (Ederlezi). However, it does not appear for the first time until 1988 on the soundtrack of the film The Time of the Gypsies , attributed to Goran Bregović who claims to have composed the music from two couplets of traditional Albanian …

Dixie , also known as I Wish I Was in Dixie or Dixie’s Land , is apopular American song . It was originally composed by an Ohio singer, Daniel Decatur Emmett, under the name of Dixie’s Land and was first published by Phillip Werlein in New Orleans in 1859. The word Dixie is the nickname given to the South of the United States .

Diaraby (or Diarabi ) is a traditional song from West Africa 1 . This song evokes passionate bonds between individuals that are love or a deep friendship based on great mutual admiration 1 . It is notably taken by the Malian singer Ali Farka Touré or the Malian singer Inna Modja on his album Motel Bamako .

Cwm Rhondda (“The Rhondda River Valley” in Welsh ) is: the name of a mining valley ( Rhondda Valley ), or rather two contiguous valleys, Rhondda Fach (small Rhondda) and Rhondda Fawr (great Rhondda); a popular hymn .

El Condor Pasa is primarily amusicaltheater traditionally classified aszarzuela, from which is extracted the famoussongof the same name. The music was composed by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles and the original lyrics written by Julio de La Paz (Julio Baudouin) in 1913 , but the piece was not published until 1933 .

Chants d’Auvergne is a work of the composer Joseph Canteloube written between 1923 and 1930 and published between 1924 and 1955. It consists of five collections of traditional songs collected in Auvergne , which have been harmonized and orchestrated. The composer wrote his score for soprano and symphonic orchestra. He did not want to follow the original music to the letter or make the “authentic” …