He kept going until a couple of months later he had completed more than 280 pieces, and gathered them under the umbrella title "The Book of Angels," with each tune named after a Hebrew angel.
But the tune — named not after any Spanish term but rather for M. J., a k a Michael Jackson — was an anomaly, and in that sense a good illustration of Mr. Cruz's complicated relationship with Latin jazz, as a genre and a set of expectations.
A Kunqu Opera GCN score contains contents such as the title, key signature, qupai (qupai is the general term for the tune names used in traditional Chinese lyrics and music writing, and every qupai singing tone has its own musical form, tone, and tonality), lyrics, and notes.
A tune named "Arlington" accompanied Newton's verses as much as "New Britain" for a time in the late 19th century.
It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named "New Britain" to which it is most frequently sung today.
In 1978, future Mute Records founder Daniel Miller wrote a creepy spoken-word synth-punk tune named "Warm Leatherette," inspired by an equally creepy novel titled "Crash" by J.G Ballard about a group of people who achieve sexual stimulation from car crashes.
In 1978, future Mute Records founder Daniel Miller wrote a creepy spoken-word synth-punk tune named "Warm Leatherette," inspired by an equally creepy novel titled Crash by J.G Ballard about a group of people who achieve sexual stimulation from car crashes.
Mr. Graham popularized what guitarists call the DADGAD tuning, named for the notes on the six strings from lowest to highest.
In the fall of 1959, a dashing Los Angeles writer of tunes named Lew Spence got a call from Frank Sinatra's people.
Thelonious Jr. remembered his father as "a guy who had a fabulous love affair with his wife, who partied with his children, who wrote tunes named after family members".
When they lift the card to their ears, the vibration swells into a sound, a rhythm, and then a syncopated tune: "Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl..."...
