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Circus music (also known as carnival music) is any sort of music that is played to accompany a circus, and also music written that emulates its general style. Popular music would also often get arranged for the circus band, as well as waltzes , foxtrots and other dances.
Circus Maximus was composed at the behest of the conductor Jerry Junkin, Director of Bands at the University of Texas at Austin.Junkin had originally approached Corigliano about composing a wind ensemble piece years before, but the composer turned the offer down, later remarking, "the thought of that enormous ensemble, composed of so many instruments I had never written for, overwhelmed me."
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"Circus" is a song co-written and performed by American singer Lenny Kravitz and released on December 11, 1995 by Virgin Records, as the second single from his fourth studio album, Circus (1995). There were produced two music videos for the song: one directed by Ruven Afanador [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the other by Martyn Atkins. [ 5 ]
Most of the lyrics came from a 19th-century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal appearance at Rochdale. It was one of three songs from the Sgt. Pepper album that was banned from playing on the BBC, supposedly because the phrase "Henry the Horse" combined two words that were individually known as slang for heroin.
After it was released as a single from Circus in 2009, the track performed poorly on the charts and did not manage to enter the top 40 in most countries. The single's accompanying music video was directed by Dave Meyers, and pays tribute to the music video of Madonna's "Take a Bow" (1994). In the video, Spears is an aristocratic woman involved ...
Essentially a synth-pop track, the music is accentuated by acoustic guitar and a continuous circus-like accordion. The lyrics touch on social issues, rare for the duo, and centre on the lament of "working men", whose bright futures and job securities are left shattered in the modern world of greedy corporations and technology.
The score in an 1897 piano reduction "Entrance of the Gladiators" op. 68 or "Entry of the Gladiators" (Czech: Vjezd gladiátorů) (German: Einzug der Gladiatoren) is a military march composed in 1897 [1] by the Czech-born Austrian composer Julius Fučík.