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  2. Mysterioso Pizzicato - Wikipedia

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    Common version of the motif from Mysterioso Pizzicato Play ⓘ. Mysterioso Pizzicato, also known as The Villain or The Villain's Theme, is a piece of music whose earliest known publication was in 1914, when it appeared in an early collection of incidental photoplay music aimed at accompanists for silent films.

  3. Category:19th-century songs - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "19th-century songs" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total.

  4. List of music released posthumously - Wikipedia

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    The song Ataman or "Атаман" was released on what would have been Viktor's 50th Birthday, 22 years after his death. Brazilian singer Cazuza's album Por aí was released in 1991. He died of AIDS in 1990. The song "Where Is Love" by Mel and Kim was released in 2018. Mel Appleby died in 1990 from pneumonia while battling cancer.

  5. Music hall songs - Wikipedia

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    Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten. In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company, Francis, Day and Hunter, published between forty and fifty songs a month.

  6. Songs of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Another song with a reportedly secret meaning is "Now Let Me Fly" [3] which references the biblical story of Ezekiel's Wheels. [4] The song talks mostly of a promised land. This song might have boosted the morale and spirit of the slaves, giving them hope that there was a place waiting that was better than where they were.

  7. Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Wikipedia

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    The collection of love, soldiers, wandering, and children's songs was an important source of idealized folklore in the Romantic nationalism of the 19th century. Des Knaben Wunderhorn became widely popular across the German-speaking world; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , one of the most influential writers of the time, declared that Des Knaben ...

  8. List of best-selling sheet music - Wikipedia

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    The first song to became "popular" through a national advertising campaign was "My Grandfather's Clock" in 1876. [3] Mass production of piano in the late-19th century helped boost sheet music sales. [3] Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies.

  9. Temperance songs - Wikipedia

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    Temperance songs are those musical compositions that were sung and performed to promote the Temperance Movement from the 1840s to the 1920s. It was a distinct genre of American music. In the early 19th century, the yearly per capita consumption of alcohol in the US was as high as 3.9 gallons (14.8 liters) in the 1830s. [2]