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You Probably Haven't Heard *Of* This Tune, But You've Almost Certainly Heard It. Is It History's Most Enduring Melody? by Artsjournal1

"La Folia" seems to have appeared first as a folk-dance tune in late medieval Portugal. Over the next century, it spread to Spain and Italy and composers started adapting it; in the 17th and 18th centuries, "La Folia" and variations on it were all over the place (even colonial Latin America). Today some of those […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12pm on August 6, 2019 ☆ ⚑

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