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The Salve Marinera lyrics and music originated in the zarzuela "El Molinero de Subiza", by Cristóbal Oudrid in 1870. The lyrics of this hymn, written by Mariano Méndez Vigo, [1] are exalting the Virgin Mary as Stella Maris (Our Lady, Star of the Sea). It was adopted by the Spanish Navy as its official anthem towards the end of the 19th ...
See media help. El Noi de la Mare (The Child of the Mother) is a traditional Catalan Christmas song. The song was made famous outside Spain by Andrés Segovia who used to perform Miguel Llobet 's guitar transcription as an encore. [1]
De la Mare was born at 83, Maryon Road, Charlton, then in the county of Kent but now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.He was partly descended from a family of French Huguenot silk merchants through his father, James Edward de la Mare (1811–1877), a principal at the Bank of England; his mother was James's second wife, Lucy Sophia (1838–1920), daughter of a Scottish naval surgeon and ...
Paper and parchment. The Book of the Consulate of the Sea ( Catalan: Llibre del Consolat de Mar, lit. ' Book of the Consulate of Sea ') is a compendium of maritime law that governed trade in the Mediterranean for centuries. Of Catalan origin, it was translated into many languages and served as the basis for current international maritime law .
A catalogue aria is a genre of opera aria in which the singer recounts a list of information (people, places, food, dance steps, etc.) that was popular in Italian comic opera in the latter half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The traditional devices of the catalogue aria include a solidly neutral opening, a section of rising ...
"Granada" is a song written in 1932 by Mexican composer Agustín Lara. The song is about the Spanish city of Granada and has become a standard in music repertoire.. The most popular versions are the original with Spanish lyrics by Lara (often sung operatically); a version with English lyrics by Australian lyricist Dorothy Dodd; and instrumental versions in jazz, pop, easy listening, flamenco ...
The first Russian translation of One Thousand and One Nights, in Russian: Тысяча и одна ночь ( Týsjača i odná nočʹ ), was made by Alexey Filatyev in 1763–1774. [ 8] It was based on Galland's translation and consisted of 12 volumes. [ 8] Later Russian translations were also based on European translations.
Guadalajara (song) " Guadalajara " is a well-known mariachi song written and composed by Pepe Guízar in 1937. [ 1][ 2] Guízar wrote the song in honor of his hometown, the city of the same name and state capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco .