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Music post: Columbus Day
Early for Columbus Day, because I won't be around for the day itself:
The Waverly Consort, Ayo visto lo mappamundi (I have seen the map of the world), from their marvelous CD "1492: Music From the Age of Discovery." Renaissance choral music. You have to love a language that has one word for "map of the world."
I have seen the map of the world
And the charts used by navigators,
But I think Sicily [or Cecilia; it's one of those songs where it's either the country or the girl]
Most beautiful in this world.
There are three Sicilies, no more,
And all three are crowned;
King Alphonse holds two:
Citrafaro and Ultrafaro.
The third is on the calendar.
Do not speak of the fourth,
Which is on no map.
You get there in another world.
I have seen Corsica and Sardinia,
And the island of Medea.
I've experienced them all,
Cyprus, Candia and Morea.
In the galleys I have searched out
The new islands of Castile;
But Sicily is so beautiful
That my mind is confounded.
The Waverly Consort, Ayo visto lo mappamundi (I have seen the map of the world), from their marvelous CD "1492: Music From the Age of Discovery." Renaissance choral music. You have to love a language that has one word for "map of the world."
I have seen the map of the world
And the charts used by navigators,
But I think Sicily [or Cecilia; it's one of those songs where it's either the country or the girl]
Most beautiful in this world.
There are three Sicilies, no more,
And all three are crowned;
King Alphonse holds two:
Citrafaro and Ultrafaro.
The third is on the calendar.
Do not speak of the fourth,
Which is on no map.
You get there in another world.
I have seen Corsica and Sardinia,
And the island of Medea.
I've experienced them all,
Cyprus, Candia and Morea.
In the galleys I have searched out
The new islands of Castile;
But Sicily is so beautiful
That my mind is confounded.