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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...

Today I have chosen the song "Sound the Trumpet" from "Come, ye sons of Art: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary" composed by Henry Purcell to a text from Nahum Tate in 1694 and sung by countertenors Andreas Schöll and Christophe Dumaux. I shall not say more about the music, for the YouTube video...

Today I continue with French dancing music. "La Quinte Estampie Real" is, literally translated, the fifth royal Estampie, the Estampie being a dance popular in Medieval France. This very dance comes from "Le Manuscrit de Roi", a Medieval French manuscript filled with Estampies and other dances...

Today I feel like posting dancing music again. The chosen piece is a "Volte", an (originally) French dance from the Early Baroque, i.e. form the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. Originally found on a CD focused on the dances of Michael Praetorius, this very Volte chosen here was composed by...

And here now the song I wanted to post today. I still continue with traditional music, now with the Japanese song "Sōran bushi", a work song of the fishermen of Hokkaido sung when catching herring and musically performed by Ensemle Sakura. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCfoW58LYA

@Nick_Asano: That's curious! I always test the links after posting them and it worked just fine. I tested the link again and it still works for me. Could be that the song is accessible in limited regions only. Here the link to a slightly different version by another interpreter which I hope will...

And me again. Today I have chosen the German folk song "Spinn, spinn meine liebe Tochter" whose melody comes from the Lower Rhine in 1863 and whose text is taken from the poetry collection "Des Knaben Wunderhorn". The piece is sung by soprano Anneliese Rothenberger accompanyied by the Chor der...

Today is the first time my post follows my own post, but oh well... My choice of the day is "C'est dans la ville de Bytown", a folk song from Quebec attested from 1914. This French-language love song based on a melody first attested in Amsterdam in 1620 and still danced in Belgium tells about...

Dear scanlators, what you have translated as "Delphsaurus" is with certainty a Dilophosaurus, though I can imagine that Graeco-Latin dinosaur names are rather hard to read in Hangul. As someone with a deep interest in palaeobiology, I would be grateful if you use the correct name in future...

Today I chose a love song again. "Tant m'abelis" by Berenguier de Palou from the early 12th century is a typical troubadour song where the singer praises his beloved lady to whom he is committed while following the rules of courtly love. It is sung in Old Occitan, the Medieval form of the...

Yamawarawa (a yōkai; cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamawaro )

Seeing as we have Good Friday (at least still here in Germany) my choice of music is Easter-themed. To be exact it is Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Op. 36, the "Russian Easter Festival Overture". Classical music ahead! Era: Romantic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4e8CvxV4Ho

Before listening to this music a short introduction to music archaeology should prove necessary. It is really rare to find notated music from before the Middle Ages. As far as I know (and I am a layman in this regard), while Ancient Greek notated music is still comparatively found aplenty (most...

Another nice and sunny day, another piece of dancing music, though this time of a completely different cultural origin. This dance is Precoumbian in origin, based on the musical traditions of the Nahuatl-speaking people, the former Aztecs, which survived the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The...

A nice sunny day like today calls for some joyous dancing music, I believe. Hence, the "Branle de la "Haye"", published in Thoinot Arbeau's dance collection "Orchesographie: par lequel toutes personnes peuvent facilement apprendre & practiquer l'honeste exercise de dances" from 1589. This...

Today I decided to share one of my absolute favourite songs. "Morte merce", or "Welcome death" as it's title can be translated into English, is a 15th Century Italian song probably written by L. Gustiniani to a melody composed by Juan Cornago. In the second half of this performance by Ensemble...