Tannenbaum -Christmas tree – Albero di Natale
Tannenbaum (in italiano Abete) può essere considerato il canto natalizio “più europeo” della tradizione. La canzone nasce in…
Category: FILM
Annabel Lee in musica
Annabel Lee è il titolo dell’ultima poesia scritta dall’americano Edgar Allan Poe poco prima della sua morte.E’ il…
Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest
La canzone dei pirati Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest (in italiano: Quindici uomini sulla cassa del…
Pubblicato inFILM, Gaelico scozzese/ SCOTTISH GAELIC, Musica scozzese/ Scottish music, Usanze e tradizioni/ Folklore
Dh’èirich mi moch madainn cheòthar
Dh’èirich mi moch madainn cheòthar è una waulking song in gaelico scozzese proveniente dalla tradizione delle Isole Ebridi.…
Well below the Valley (The Maid and the Palmer)
Leggi in italiano Child #21The Maid and the Palmer The Well Below the Valley “The Maid and the…
Pubblicato inFILM, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music, Musica scozzese/ Scottish music, STORIA IRLANDESE/ Irish history
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Leggi in italiano The phrase “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” can cause some confusion as it has…
Pubblicato inFILM, gaelico irlandese/ Irish Gaelic, MITI/Mythology, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music, Musica irlandese/ Irish music
The Secret of Roan Inish
Trasposizione cinematografica del romanzo “Il segreto di Ron Mor Skerry” di Rosalie K. Fry (1959) si racconta di…
Tam Lin Movie 1972
Amazing movie by Roddy McDowall who in 1960's decided to make a modern interpretation of Ballade of Tam…
Pubblicato inFILM, FOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk, MITI/Mythology, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music
“What women really want” / King Henry
King Henry is a medieval ballad not as far removed from our day as one might think. Centuries…
Pubblicato inFILM, Gaelico scozzese/ SCOTTISH GAELIC, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music, Musica scozzese/ Scottish music
Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird A’ Chuain vs Jamie’s on the stormy sea
We find ourselves in the umpteenth case of similarity between Gaelic song and English song in which (wrongly)…
Amhrán Na Farraige (Song of the Sea)
"Song of the Sea" (La canzone del Mare) è un film d'animazione del regista irlandese Tomm Moore uscito…
Pubblicato inCHRISTMAS TIME/Natale, FILM, MUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music, Musica scozzese/ Scottish music, Usanze e tradizioni/ Folklore
Auld Lang Syne: melodies in search of an author
This is an old song that Robert Burns says he heard from an elderly singer. The song includes…
Bidh clann Ulaidh versus Song of the Exile (We will go home)
Bidh clann Ulaidh (in English "The Clan of Ulster") is a lullaby from the Hebrides, where the mother…
Belle Dame sans Merci, by John Keats in music and film
In 1819 the English poet John Keats reworked the figure of the "Queen of Faerie" of Scottish ballads…
Pubblicato inFILM, FOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk, FOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk
Hanging Johnny : hang, boys, hang
"Hanging Johnny" is an halyard shanty in which we talk about the hangman who hangs all those who…
Row me bullies boys row (Alan Doyle)
The most recent version of this popular sea shanty comes from the movie "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves"…
Row, bullies, row Liverpool Judies to Frisco
"Liverpool Judies" is a popular sea shanty which is divided into two main versions: one in which our…
Banks of Newfoundland: an offshore bank fishery
"The Banks of Newfoundland" collected by Kenneth Peacock in 1952 from James (Jim) Rice [1879-1958] of Cape Broyle,…
Banks of Newfoundland: once more we must away
La canzone "The Banks of Newfoundland" raccolta da Kenneth Peacock nel 1952 da James (Jim) Rice [1879-1958] di…
Pubblicato inFILM, Gaelico scozzese/ SCOTTISH GAELIC, LIBRI/Book, TURISMO IN SCOZIA/ Scotland travelling
Outlander book: giving a new wife a fish
A fragment of a poem in Scottish Gaelic dating from at least to the eighteenth century from "Carmina…
