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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]
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 ...
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 ...
The Misterio de Elche[ 1] ( Spanish pronunciation: [misˈteɾjo ˈðe ˈeltʃe] ), in English the Mystery Play of Elche[ 2] or Elche Mystery Play and in Valencian Misteri d'Elx ( Valencian pronunciation: [misˈtɛɾi ˈðɛʎtʃ] ), is a liturgical drama from the Middle Ages that reenacts the Dormition and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary .
Hasta Siempre, Comandante. "Hasta Siempre, Comandante ," ( "Until Forever, Commander" in English) or simply "Hasta Siempre", is a 1965 song by Cuban composer Carlos Puebla. The song's lyrics are a reply to revolutionary Che Guevara 's farewell letter when he left Cuba, in order to foster revolution in the Congo and later Bolivia, [ 1] where he ...
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 ...
See media help. The " Himno Nacional del Perú " [ a] ("National Anthem of Peru"; also known as " Marcha Nacional del Perú ," or "National March of Peru"; " Somos libres ", or "We are free!") is the national anthem of Peru. It was composed by José Bernardo Alcedo, and its lyrics were written by José de la Torre Ugarte in 1821.
Galleons. Nuestra Señora de la Visitación - Former English galleon Dainty, captured by the Spaniards in the action of San Mateo Bay in 1594. León Coronado - Former French galleon Lion Couronné, captured by the Spaniards in 1651. The term galeón continued in use in Spanish sources for much longer than in the navies of Northern Europe ...