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Though I am a nondrinker with conviction, it doesn't hinder me the least to listen to and like drinking songs, particularly seeing as in the European Middle Ages water was anything but safe to drink, coffe, tea, and cacao weren't known yet, and milk and other drinkable dairy products were...

Today I will still continue with the witches' Sabbath, seeing as Walpurgis Night lasts from April 30 to May 1. Thus today I chose the "Songe d'une nuit du sabbat" from Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique" Op. 14. This piece is the musical rendering of an artist's "dream of a night of the...

The grandfather of some friends of mine, being over 90 years old, after staying in the hospital since before the emergence of the epidemic died right there from pneumonia in combination with Corona, leaving behind his wife devastated, she being also over 90 years old. This is the only Corona...

Seeing as we have Walpurgis Night (April 30), the night when the witches are out and about, my choice of the day is fitting the occasion: "Night on the bare mountain" composed by Modest Mussorgsky, a piece depicting the witches' Sabbath, taking place on Ivan-Kupala (July 6) rather than Walpurgis...

My favorite lyrics are from the "Ode to Joy" or "Ode an die Freude" as it is called in German, Beethoven's setting of one of Schiller's poems in the finale of his 9th symphony. As famous as it is, rightfully so, as beautiful it is, too. Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir...

And me again, with traditional music as well. Today I have chosen the "Canto de los Seri e Yaqui", the chant of the Seri and Yaqui, featuring songs of the native people of Sonora in Mexico, performed by Yaki Kandru. The title on YouTube "Musica con Fotutos" is a mix up when compared to the...

Only ten books are allowed at most? That's far too few! But I shall try to manage. Seeing as I am no English native speaker, coming from Germany and all, my list will undoubtedly include some German language books, though I will try to write the English title if I read the German translated...

My choice today is "Vinta", a traditional Philippine dance depicting a sea journey on a traditional Philippine boat known as vinta. It is musically performed by Fiesta Filipina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Be3_i3dTj4

Today I have chosen "Steter dienest der ist guot" composed by the Minnesänger known as Tannhäuser in modern German and Tanhûser in Middle High German, the language of his era and songs. This song tells of a courtly love gone awry and is performed by I Ciatarlani. Normally I make a point not to...

I don't think it is correct but possibly @MoonlightFairy?

My song of the day is "Morena" which could be translated as "Brunette", a traditional Sephardic song. The Sephardi Jews are the Jews of the Iberian peninsula speaking Ladino, a Spanish-based language influenced by Hebrew, and who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1496...

@IndigoNight Then you don't have to go too far back. I started participating in this thread on April 1st.

Me again. My choice of the day is "Telema", a traditional song of the Romani people (or gypsies as they are commonly but politically incorrectly known) from Russia, performed by Loyko. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOt0_Uy-Fy0

Today I have chosen an excerpt (the full version is 9:44 long but not availiable on YouTube) from "Ceann Drochaid' Innse-breiridh (The End of Inchberry Bridge)", a traditional Hebridean Scottish Gaelic song preserved in "Colin Campbel's Instrumental Book 1797". Due to a unique method of...

Today I have chosen a song about what I wish everybody in the corona crisis to find, and if not in real life then at least online. "Pastyme with good companye" is a song composed by King Henry VIII of England. Composers on the throne might not be all too common but are nothing unusual as well...

This time I have decided to go with Guillaume de Machaut, THE French composer of the 14th century. The ballade "Amours me fait desirer" tells of a love burning so intensely that the loving man is in danger of dying if not the lady of his heart gives love to him. The problem, though, is that the...

I continue with traditional music, this time coming from the Mayas. The song "Ahometa Ku Yaxi" is a Mayan dancing song. I don't know who this Anfredo Roel is who is attributed with the music in the YouTube video but on the CD the Mayan musicians remain nameless so perhaps he is one of them...

Today I chose a traditional folk song from North Korea, though the traditional North Korean music also practiced in South Korea nowadays. This song called "Yawolseon-yuga" which can be trandlated as "Boatride by Moonlight" tells about, well, what its title implies. It is sung by Yu Ji-suk...

My choice of the day is the Spanish song "Niña, si encontrares a Cupido" composed by an anonymus in around 1700. The title can be translated as "Girl, if you encounter Cupido". This love song tells a girl what to do if she encounters Cupido, the god of love, while asleep and how to coverse with...

My song of the day is "Ich bin a Bal-agole" or "I am a coachman" as it would be translated. This song from the New Jewish School was composed by Solomon Rosowsky based on a traditional Yiddish folk song. Its tragicomic Yiddish lyrics tell of a Jewish coachman whose work is seemingly without end...