Music and Us: Our New Playlist
Being from England, I feel like we have a lot of culture when it comes to music and also being so close to many countries in Europe I feel like I know quite a bit about other cultures and their music too. I think a big part of that is because of playing soccer and meeting people from all around the world too. The 4 countries am going to talk about is obviously England, then I will talk about Turkey, Spain and lastly Ireland. I understand that these are all in Europe but I feel like these cultures have so much history with music and its something that hopefully people enjoy learning about The traditional song I chose for England is " The water is Wide" even though this song was created in 1906 and am sure there are older songs out there, this one personally kind of shows how the music in England has been for years and the meanings behind it. This song is about dealing with themes of love, separation and longing, it is normally played with just a guitar or harp melodies which ...