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One of the most famous works of this artist is the ballad "Nwahulwana" ("night bird"), first released in 1988. The song was featured in a Microsoft commercial in California, [ 2 ] and in 2001 was part of the soundtrack for the movie The Pledge (directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson ).
" Gi Talo Gi Halom Tasi" (Chamorro pronunciation: [gi tæloʔ gi hɑlum tɑsi]; English: "In the Middle of the Sea"), also known as "Satil matawal Pacifico" (Carolinian pronunciation: [sætil mɐtɐwɐl pɐsifiku]), is the regional anthem of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States.
"O Canada" (French: Ô Canada) is the national anthem of Canada.The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée composed the music, after which French-language words were written by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.
English: The lyrics to O Canada, the national anthem of Canada, in English, French, and Inuktitut, official languages in Canada. Typeset in lilypond 2.10.33 . Français : Les textes à Ô Canada , l'hymne national du Canada , dans anglais , française, et Inuktitut , langues officielles du Canada.
The "Sakura Sakura" melody has been popular since the Meiji period, and the lyrics in their present form were attached then. [citation needed] The tune uses a pentatonic scale known as the in scale (miyako-bushi pentatonic scale) and is played in quadruple meter and has three parts (ABBAC) which stretch over 14 bars (2 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 2).
Jaya Bhārata Jananiya Tanujāte, Jaya Hē Karnāṭaka Māte (pronounced [Jaya bha:rata jananiya tanuja:te, jaya he: karna:ʈaka ma:te]; lit. ' Victory to you Mother Karnataka, The Daughter of Mother India! ') is a Kannada-language poem composed by Kuvempu.
Ar Hyd y Nos" (English: All Through the Night) is a Welsh song sung to a tune that was first recorded in Edward Jones' Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards (1784). The most commonly sung Welsh lyrics were written by John Ceiriog Hughes (1832-1887), and have been translated into several languages, including English (most famously by ...
Zeman's original Czech lyrics framed the polka as a love song, whereas Brown and Timm's English version framed it as a song celebrating the repeal of Prohibition in the United States. At first the English version of the song was relatively unknown and unpopular, but it gained a great deal of popularity after The Andrews Sisters recorded it in 1939.