Articles about 'Music'
June 10th, 2011
Here’s a dulcet Japanese song composed and performed by David W Solomons.
Enjoy!
Mama Lisa
June 3rd, 2011
Project Gutenberg just released "Songs from Alice in Wonderland" for free on the internet. Scores and midis are provided in the online book.
Here are two songs in the book for your enjoyment…
How doth the little Crocodile
Listen to Midi Tune
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the...
May 14th, 2011
My husband and I went to see Jazz artist Sonny Rollins in concert last night. This guy is 80 years old. He was cranking out great jazz for the entire concert… a full hour and a half. I wondered if his attitude has kept him so young of heart. He said to the audience (I...
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March 17th, 2011
Most Americans in their thirties and forties are familiar with "Schoolhouse Rock", the short cartoons on educational subjects that appeared in between commercials during weekend kids programming in the seventies. Who among us, of that age, doesn’t know the words that come after "Conjunction junction…" or "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly…"?
What I never knew until recently is...
February 24th, 2011
I just posted “Mamy don’t yo’ cook no mo’” from the Work Projects Administration’s Slave Narratives.
For that project, the government sent out interviewers to talk with and write down the memories of ex-slaves, many of whom were still alive. Thanks to this, today we can read about their lives in their own words....
January 23rd, 2011
Sheila wrote from North Carolina asking about a circle dance song:
I sang this in kindergarten 55 years ago. I don’t know the correct spelling of these words, but this is what the refrain sounded like…
Mumbo, hot-toe, mata relay, relay
Mumbo, hot-toe mata relay relay roan.
It was a circle dance with one child in the middle,...
November 26th, 2010
Zee Avi is a wonderful singer from Malay. She sings in both Malay and English.
Below is a video of a medley she created using English and Malay lullabies. Here’s what she wrote about it…
Some of my favourite lullabies that were sung to me by my mother and grandmother when i was a little one...
November 1st, 2010
The Ghosts’ High Noon is a ballad written by W.S. Gilbert, with the tune created by Arthur Sullivan. It’s from Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera called Ruddigore or The Witch’s Curse.
Below you’ll find different renditions of the song. Sometimes it’s sung as a ballad, other times it’s read as a poem.
Listen...
September 22nd, 2010
Tonight is the full moon festival of Jugoya in Japan. People view the moon and celebrate the harvest. Celebrating includes the Green Tea ceremony and listening to people playing the koto.
Below you can hear the koto.
Jugo-ya displays are created for the festival. Here is one from Ayako Egawa in Japan…
Ayako wrote the following...
August 4th, 2010
Here’s a video of Rahim AlHaj from Iraq playing a musical instrument called the Oud. The Oud is a string instrument that’s pear shaped. It’s used in Middle Eastern music.
Enjoy!
Mama Lisa
May 1st, 2010
Helen Korablev sent me links to some bilingual Russian English tales online. They were originally written in Russian, but they have English translations next to them. Two were written by the famous Russian author, Pushkin.
Helen wrote:
Lisa, hi!
I’m sending you links to some lovely Russian tales. I hope it will be useful...
April 15th, 2010
Nyango Melissa, who has sent me many songs from Cameroon in Africa, sent me this email today…
Hi, all:
You can listen to some samples from African Harmony and watch them at rehearsal. Just scroll down the home page.
African Harmony is the choral group of the Minnesota African Women’s Association, MAWA’s cultural program. African Harmony is made...
March 26th, 2010
Lucy sent me a great link for lesson plans for world music. Here’s what she wrote:
Lisa,
Your fabulous website has been an invaluable resource for me this year, as friends and I have been running weekly ’round the world’ school workshops in music, drama and art. In fact, your website is the first...
January 18th, 2010
On December 7th, 2009 at 1:30 Greenwich Mean Time, people in 156 countries joined together to sing “All You Need is Love” at exactly the same time to raise global awareness of AIDS in Africa, here they are…
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Think of what can we do if we join together...
December 22nd, 2009
Many people love the Italian Carol Tu scendi dalle stelle (You Come Down from the Stars)… Many more love Andrea Bocelli’s rendition of it… So I bring you the Italian lyrics, an English translation and the video together this Christmas season!
Tu scendi dalle stelle
(Italian)
Tu scendi dalle stelle
O Re del Cielo
E vieni in una...
December 2nd, 2009
Rose wrote me asking about the Afrikaans version of Brahms’ Lullaby that’s sung in South Africa…
Dear Lisa,
When I was a baby in Joburg, my mom used to sing a Brahms lullaby…
Slaap my kindkie slaap sag,
onder rose fannaag,
iers die armpies on my neck,
en dan warmpies toe gedek,
more frieg as God vill,
word my kindkie ge vek
Sorry...
December 2nd, 2009
In the 1930’s, the US government did a series of interviews with former slaves. Project Gutenberg, just posted some of the interviews from Texas from 1936-1938. They’re called Slave Narratives.
Wes Brady
I pulled out some excerpts that revolved around songs that some of the former slaves remembered singing. Some were kids songs, some dancing songs,...
November 29th, 2009
Here you’ll find some quotes about music…
Music is the universal language of mankind. -Longfellow
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Berthold Auerbach
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Music is very much the same as air and water. It’s very much a natural element of the earth, you know when you hear birds, when you hear leaves...
November 19th, 2009
This week we added two languages to Mama Lisa’s World of International Songs, bringing us up to a hundred languages on the site!
We added a song from West Sumatra in Indonesia where they speak Minangkabau.
We also added a Frisian Lullaby in the West Frisian language. The Frisian language is the...
October 19th, 2009
Michael wrote:
Hi Lisa,
We just returned from a vacation in Croatia. We are German and have 3 little girls. They learned a song from a “mini disco”. I hope you can tell me the name of the song.
From what we understood it sounds like this:
Kille killi jakasaka okoama bum (repeats) Olee mal jole…….
Do you know...
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