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"A Slow Song" is a song by British singer-songwriter and musician Joe Jackson, which was released in 1982 as the closing track on his fifth studio album Night and Day. The song was written by Jackson, and produced by Jackson and David Kershenbaum .
By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called "royalty ballads". [20] Some of Stephen Foster 's songs exemplify this genre. By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form.
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
In the 1950s and 1960s many light composers wrote Production Library music for use in film, radio and television, and as a result, many light music compositions are familiar as theme music, an example being Trevor Duncan's March from a Little Suite, used by the BBC as the theme to Dr. Finlay's Casebook in the 1960s, or Edward White's "Puffin ...
However, the Joyce estate was unwilling to allow direct use of Joyce's words at that time, so she altered the lyrics. By 2011, the Joyce estate was open to licensing his work to her, so she re-worked that song as Flower of the Mountain, using Molly Bloom's soliloquy from Ulysses. [97] [98] [99] "Shadows and Tall Trees" Boy: U2: Lord of the Flies
"Travellin' Light" is a UK No. 1 single recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows and released in 1959. [2] It was the follow-up single to Richard's first No. 1, "Living Doll" and remained at No. 1 for five weeks (one less than "Living Doll"). [1] "Travellin' Light" was also a Number 1 hit in Ireland and Norway, selling 1.59 million copies ...
Bego describes the music as being "slow and somber". [3] Music critic Jon Landau said that the song "begins with some instrumental meandering that may, at first, seem pointless" but the song "gathers momentum" so that by the chorus "the music has suddenly and surprisingly become compelling."
"See a Little Light" is a 1989 song by alternative rock musician Bob Mould for his debut solo album Workbook. Written by Mould about his optimism after the break-up of his previous band, Hüsker Dü , the song features relatively upbeat lyrics and a light arrangement highlighted by clean electric guitar and cello.