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Lynne wrote the song quickly when Face the Music was almost complete but he didn't think they had a good lead single. [3] Lynne said: I wrote this in a matter of minutes. The rest of the album was done. I listened to it and thought, 'There’s not a good single.' So I sent the band out to a game of football and made up 'Evil Woman' on the spot.
Kassia, Cassia or Kassiani (Greek: Κασσιανή, romanized: Kassianí, pronounced; c. 810 – before 865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. [1] She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. [2]
Women were generally the subject of the writings of troubadours, however: "No other group of poets give women so exalted a definition within so tightly circumscribed a context of female suppression." [ 13 ] The tension between the suppression of women present in the poetry of the troubadours and similar themes in the poetry of the trobairitz is ...
Music portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Medieval composers . It includes Medieval composers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Lo Boièr is a song with a slow, alternate rhythm. The third verse of every stanza is a mantric-sounding succession of vowels as a sort of refrain. [5] [6] The song's lyrics tells the story of an oxherd who finds his wife ill and tries to comfort her with food, which the woman replies to by serenely explaining the way she wants to be buried after she dies.
The song is a virelai, belonging to the style ars nova, and is one of the most often heard medieval tunes today. Many modern recordings omit the lyrics, however. One of the most famous musical pieces of the Middle Ages, 'Douce Dame' has been performed by a plethora of artists, mostly but not always in medieval style.
Medieval music generally refers the music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. [1] The first and longest major era of Western classical music, medieval music includes composers of a variety of styles, often centered around a particular nationality or composition school. The lives of most ...
Canu Heledd (modern Welsh /'kani 'hɛlɛð/, the songs of Heledd) are a collection of early Welsh englyn-poems. They are rare among medieval Welsh poems for being set in the mouth of a female character. One prominent figure in the poems is Heledd's dead brother Cynddylan.