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The "Marines' Hymn" is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first director of the USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala.Its music originates from an 1867 work by Jacques Offenbach with the lyrics added by an anonymous author at an unknown time in the following years.
"Palaces of Montezuma" is a song by the alternative rock band Grinderman. It is the eighth track and third single from the band's second and final studio album, Grinderman 2 , and was released on 14 March 2011 on Mute Records .
Motezuma, RV 723, is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi with an Italian libretto by Alvise Giusti.The libretto is very loosely based on the life of the Aztec ruler Montezuma who died in 1520.
Montezuma, an 1884 opera by Frederick Grant Gleason; Montezuma (Sessions opera), a 1963 opera by Roger Sessions; Montezuma, or La Conquista, a 2005 opera by Lorenzo Ferrero; Montezuma, a 1980 film score by Hans Werner Henze "Montezuma", a song from the 1994 album Apurimac II by Cusco "Montezuma", a song from the 2011 album Helplessness Blues by ...
The song is taken from the group's fifth studio album, Montezuma's Revenge, released on Hieroglyphics Imperium. In 2013, a documentary about the band was released entitled Til Infinity: The Souls of Mischief. [4]
The song's lyrics paint a heavily romanticized portrait of Montezuma and his empire. On the facade of the Royal Palace of Madrid , there is a statue of the emperor Moctezuma II, along with another of the Inca emperor Atahualpa , among the statues of the kings of the ancient kingdoms that formed Spain .
Montezuma is an opera in three acts by the American composer Roger Sessions, with an English libretto by Giuseppe Antonio Borgese that incorporates bits of the Aztec language, Nahuatl, as well as Spanish, Latin, and French.
Aside from songs associated with the military, such as "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" by Harry Carlton and Joe Tunbridge and "Halls of Montezuma", music by Jacques Offenbach, Hail the Conquering Hero contains two original songs by Preston Sturges: