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Re: Music I love
« Reply #950 on: December 19, 2011, 12:20:16 PM »
"As it turns out, you really don’t need drugs to get high – in fact both music and a feeling of love can create reactions in the brain similar to the highs of cocaine.

...Scientists found that when subjects were listening to music that they said "gave them goosebumps" their dopamine levels rose by 6-9%, with one subject’s dopamine levels rising 21%.  By comparison, cocaine takes dopamine levels up by 22% or more.  A favorite piece was Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.”

Music & Love: Just Like Drugs
http://www.homehealthtesting.com/blog/2011/01/music-love-just-like-drugs/



The Albert Hall in London September 15 2001.
Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Orchestra
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #951 on: December 19, 2011, 12:35:20 PM »
This music gives me goosebumps and has drug-like effect on me

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #952 on: December 19, 2011, 12:49:56 PM »
... and has drug-like effect on me
Then I'd recommend small doses of Vivaldi for your withdrawal therapy ;D:

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #953 on: December 19, 2011, 01:12:45 PM »
I've overdosed :-[   Doctor, the drugs you've prescribed are addictive   :D
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #954 on: December 19, 2011, 04:43:31 PM »



This is one of my favorites, "Otra Luna".  I started listening to this style of music when I picked up dancing Argentine tango as a hobby.  I just really enjoy some of the melodies.
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #955 on: December 19, 2011, 05:51:53 PM »
I CANTI DELLE NOSTRE MONDINE
(The songs of our 'rice cleaners')

Rice (Oryza sativa) was first introduced from India to Europe by the Arabs in Spain in the XI century. The Spaniards then tried to cultivate it in their domains in Southern Italy without much success. Eventually it reached Lombardy in the XVth century, where its cultivation flourished and spread to other regions in the Po valley thanks to the fertile soil and abundance of water there.

Huge risaie (rice paddies) were a common sight in our areas up to the 1970s - Italy had become Europe's major producer - and the cultivation season reached its peak in the summertime with its monda (clean-up), i.e. the transplanting of the young rice shoots and eradication of infesting plants in the paddies. This back-breaking work used to be done by seasonal hired workers - mostly women, up to almost 300,000 in the 1950s - called monda-riso, or mondine for short. In 1949 a Neo-realist movie entitled Riso amaro (Bitter rice) documented their hard life.


One way to alleviate their hard work was singing away the day with anything from current pop tunes to left-wing political songs (poor peasant women obviously tended to lean in that direction ;)) to specific 'situational' songs. I was reminded tonight of this long-forgotten world by a TV documentary on a very active choir group called Coro Mondine di Novi (http://www.mondinedinovi.it/new/) - their logo below shows some sprightly choristers :D:



A song that originated in the rice paddies - Bella ciao (So long pretty one, lyrics at http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/music/lyrics/it/bella-ciao.htm) later became the favoured songs of our partisans in the 1940s:

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #956 on: December 19, 2011, 06:29:12 PM »
Doctor, the drugs you've prescribed are addictive   :D
Me no Doctor, be Patient, Sister ;D.

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #957 on: December 20, 2011, 08:10:15 AM »
Alright, it's really m ;) ore a choro...

Kind of hard to dance to that. Still, very nice song.
More of a samba tempo than a [95bpm] rumba tempo.  Modern samba music was heavily influenced by [and possibly derived from] Brazilian choro.  And you can dance to choro [but the jump lift at 2:30 is a bit tricky]:

« Last Edit: December 20, 2011, 11:21:49 AM by JohnDearGreen »

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #958 on: December 20, 2011, 11:17:28 AM »
Very nice!
 
 :applaud:
 
Thx
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #959 on: December 20, 2011, 11:36:21 AM »
This music gives me goosebumps and has drug-like effect on me
dancing-in-the-moonlight goddess:
Your pic looks a whole lot like the one of Ginger at 1:15 in the video below.
I like the last line: "Is there anything I can do for you?.....No"



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Re: Music I love
« Reply #960 on: December 20, 2011, 12:08:09 PM »
Speaking of Fred & Ginger, I think this is probably the longest musical number ever screened, from 1'40" here:


To this entire sequence:

For a total of more than 15' :o :D.
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #961 on: December 20, 2011, 12:59:38 PM »
dancing-in-the-moonlight goddess:
Your pic looks a whole lot like the one of Ginger at 1:15 in the video below.
I like the last line: "Is there anything I can do for you?.....No"

 :thumbsup:

Ginger Rogers is beautiful!

BTW, do you know why is being called a "Ginger" (used as slang)  laughable in the USA but an insult in GB ?    ;D

I like the last line: "Is there anything I can do for you?.....No"

Why???  Won't your heart  let your feet do things that they should do ?   :)



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Re: Music I love
« Reply #962 on: December 20, 2011, 02:53:05 PM »
Quote from: ghost of moon goddess link=topic=9589.msg284956#msg284956
Why???  Won't your heart  let your feet do things that they should do ? 

Why?  Well, the better dancer will usually steal the lady...but in a few rare cases the blonde gets away:


So sorry Ginger, you got all the headlines...but Vera is the better dancer:
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #963 on: December 20, 2011, 04:26:43 PM »
Pah, a REAL man doesn't need a woman to dance, just a coat-hanger ::):


or...an umbrella ;D:

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #964 on: December 20, 2011, 04:48:18 PM »

I love the voice of Romanian singer Andreea Balan as I find her vocal tone and pitch to be just about perfect. Her music is also awesome and matches her personality which oozes through her songs.

This is my favourite ditty of hers at the moment. Adult minded people enjoy. 8)


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Re: Music I love
« Reply #965 on: December 20, 2011, 05:15:11 PM »
A little stage trick ;). Viewers may have wondered about Ginger's semi-transparent skirt swirling beautifully and never much raising when she dances (from 5:15 onwards) this unforgettable song by Irving Berlin:


The trick was a 'necklace' of small lead beads sown into her skirt hem. After shooting this scene several times, Fred complained loudly with the director about his bruised shins :D.
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #966 on: December 20, 2011, 05:51:07 PM »
BTW, do you know why is being called a "Ginger" (used as slang)  laughable in the USA but an insult in GB ?
If this is your source...
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3.  ginger
A rare natural hair colour which inspires odd and sometimes fearful reactions from the more common coloured hair types. Typically redheads are believed to be more sexual than normal, highly artistic, fierce fighters, and to have a greater tolerance for pain than average. The sun is their only real enemy. DeScendants of vikings. The Romans were said to have put red haired males born in the empire into training as soldiers since they were believed to be fierce warriors. Rome also gave up on taking Ireland due to the number of redheads they saw there. Women with ginger hair are greatly admired in the US yet feared in the UK.
Being called a "Ginger" is an insult in England but laughable in the US.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ginger

...it contains a lot of rot:

1. Vikings were not yet much active/known in classical Roman times.
2. Light-haired recruits in Roman legions were mostly from Germanic tribes.
3. IINM, Rome never considered invading Ireland not because of its redheads, but simply because it contained little worth plundering ;). A major reason for invading England was its tin mines, the metal being used mixed with copper to make bronze and then being coined into Aesses until 23 BC, when it was replaced by pure copper coins.


Bronze Aes, circa 240-225 BC
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #967 on: December 20, 2011, 08:38:16 PM »
 
Regarding Moon Goddess's question to us about why ginger is an insult in GB, I guess it is because many English discriminate against the Irish.
 
1. Vikings were not yet much active/known in classical Roman times.
2. Light-haired recruits in Roman legions were mostly from Germanic tribes.
3. IINM, Rome never considered invading Ireland not because of its redheads, but simply because it contained little worth plundering ;) . ....

While the Romans did not invade Ireland, the Norsemen certainly did starting in the 700s.   I have made a couple of golf trips to courses along the Irish coast.  One can see remnants of tall stone towers used in defense against the raiders.
 
During the Viking raids and plundering, the Norsemen supposedly were attracted to the redheaded women, and the Norsemen took them as captives to Norway.  And that is why Norway has a significant number of redheads today.  I imagine the Vikings captured more redheads from Scotland. 

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #968 on: December 21, 2011, 05:40:41 AM »
 
While the Romans did not invade Ireland, the Norsemen certainly did starting in the 700s.
Precisely, AFTER the fall of the Roman Empire, while the quoted definition seems to imply that they did it in Roman times ;).

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Red hair occurs on approximately 1–2% of the human population. It occurs more frequently (2–6%) in people of northern or western European ancestry, and less frequently in other populations.


Anyway, redheads were already in Britain and on the Continent before Viking times:
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Several accounts by Greek writers mention redheaded people. A fragment by the poet Xenophanes describes the Thracians as blue-eyed and red haired. Herodotus described the Budini people as being predominantly red haired. Dio Cassius described Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, to be "tall and terrifying in appearance... a great mass of red hair... over her shoulders."

The Roman historian Tacitus commented on the "red hair and large limbs of the inhabitants of Caledonia", which he connected with some red haired Gaulish tribes of Germanic and Belgic relation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair

When I first visited Vienna in 1981, I was surprised by the abundance of natural redheads there - I don't think it was due to the Irish, or the Vikings either ;D
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #969 on: December 21, 2011, 06:21:41 AM »
It appears that a hangover from the middle ages, ginger prejudice, still exists in the UK  :(

Is gingerism as bad as racism?  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6725653.stm
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #970 on: December 21, 2011, 06:37:33 AM »
Brits call her red-haired Goddess

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #971 on: December 21, 2011, 07:30:50 AM »

Anyway, redheads were already in Britain and on the Continent before Viking times:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair


Yes, but why so many redheads in Norway, going back to Eric the Red?  I am somewhat biased because decades ago I had a  redheaded girlfriend from Tromsa, Norway (served as administrator at Norway Embassy, Iran, and nothing wrong about her).  This opinion says 20% of the  coastal Norwegians have red hair.  True?
 
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090905202840AAuIIN9
 
Did Harald "Bluetooth" have red hair?  Imagine that color scheme. 
 
With the genetic information now available, the recessive gene should be traceable to its origins.  I could find no convincing information (one source says it is Iranic, another Neaderthal).  If the redhead gene is a mutation and a recessive gene, it could occur anywhere.  Any predominance of a recessive gene depends upon Mendel, et al. 

Anyway, JMO there is nothing wrong with ginger haired people.  I dated briefly a UW with red hair.  She traced her roots to Poland, and before that who knows.   
 
Back to the music.
 
 

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #972 on: December 21, 2011, 07:37:16 AM »
With respect for the Christmas season and the classic theme of many recent posts, an African rendition of a Schubert composition:
 
 

 

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #973 on: December 21, 2011, 07:40:44 AM »
Another African rendition of a traditional religious Christmas song (truncated):
 

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #974 on: December 21, 2011, 07:44:11 AM »
One final Christmas song reflecting the number of recent posts with "South of the Border" music:
 

 

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