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Sur le Pont d'Avignon. Pont d'Avignon at dusk. " Sur le pont d'Avignon " ( pronounced [syʁ lə pɔ̃ daviɲɔ̃]) ("On the Bridge of Avignon") is a French song about a dance performed on the Pont d'Avignon (officially Pont Saint-Bénézet) that dates back to the 15th century. The dance actually took place under the bridge and not on the bridge ...
The 16th-century composer Pierre Certon used the melody in a mass with the title of "Sus le Pont d'Avignon". [43] The modern version of the song dates from the mid-19th century when Adolphe Adam included it in the opéra comique Le Sourd ou l'Auberge pleine which was first performed in Paris in 1853. The opera was an adaptation of the 1790 ...
Jean Sablon. Jean Sablon (Nogent-sur-Marne 25 March 1906 – Cannes 24 February 1994) was a French singer, songwriter, composer and actor. He was one of the first French singers to immerse himself in jazz. The man behind several songs by big French and American names, he was the first to use a microphone on a French stage in 1936.
Avignon is commemorated by the French song 'Sur le Pont d'Avignon' ('On the bridge of Avignon'), which describes folk dancing. The song dates from the mid-19th century when Adolphe Adam included it in the Opéra comique Le Sourd ou l'Auberge Pleine , which was first performed in Paris in 1853.
[1] [2] Music journalist Nick Coleman said that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else." [1] Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation. In many cases, songs celebrate individual cities, presenting them as exciting and liberating.
I always thought the song was a reference to the abundance of prostitutes during the Avignon papacy. Since I have no proper sources I will not edit the article though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1C03:B00:8C00:D53E:C812:A808:689D 16:27, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
Chants d'Auvergne ( French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃ dovɛːʁɲ]; English: Songs from the Auvergne ), by Joseph Canteloube, is a collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France, arranged for soprano voice and orchestra or piano between 1923 and 1930. The 27 songs, collected in five series, are in the local language, Auvergnat, a ...
333.1939. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ( The Young Ladies of Avignon, originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) [ 2] is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó, a ...