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Saturday, December 8. 2018

Columbus


I think I missed Columbus Day while I was in Italy. Christoforo Columbo was, of course, from the Republic of Genoa.  He spoke Italian and Spanish, and, I'd like to think, Portuguese too since he had a Portuguese mistress.


Anyway, when I think about Columbus I like to remember the details of our sailing cruise (yes, with sails) in 2015 from Lisbon down the coast to Morocco and then out to the Canary Islands where Columbus always loaded up stuff for his trans-Atlantic trips. 


Evert time our craft left a harbor (Lisbon, Casablanca, Agadir, Tenerife, Palmas, Gomera, etc, our Captain would blast this Vangelis piece over the ship's speakers, so it is seared - seared - into my memory. After all, this was roughly the route that Columbus took on the beginnings of his trips to the West Indies. We saw his house in the Canaries.  Still there.



Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:22 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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BTW, Bird Dog, this is not the first time you have posted a video with that soundtrack. The first time was a video of a reenactment of a medieval procession in Orvieto. Enchanting music. Good to hear it again.
Corteo Storico, Orvieto

When I first saw the Orvieto video, I assumed the music was from medieval times. As the song was written for the 1992 movie, I was mistaken. However I was not that mistaken, as the song is based on an old theme that was first published about 350 years ago, and is probably much older. Folies d' Espagne - Les Cuivres Français
QUOTE:
La Folía (Spanish), also folies d'Espagne (French), Follies of Spain (English) or Follia (Italian), is one of the oldest remembered[citation needed] European musical themes, or primary material, generally melodic, of a composition, on record. Over the course of three centuries, more than 150 composers have used it in their works. The first publications of this theme date from the middle of the 17th century, but it is probably much older.


Handel used the theme in Harpsichord suite in D minor vol.2 No 4 HWV 437 Sarabande, which greatly enjoyed playing in my piano student days.
#1 Gringo on 2018-12-08 15:21 (Reply)
Was this a Star Clipper trip? I think I remember the music from a Star Clipper trip in the Mediterranean.
#2 David Foster (Link) on 2018-12-09 11:47 (Reply)

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