The folk music of England is traditionally based music, which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music. Folk music has been preserved and transmitted orally, through print and later through recordings. The term is used to refer to English traditional music and music composed, or delivered, in a traditional style. English folk music has produced or contributed to several important musical genres, including sea shanties, jigs, hornpipes and dance music, such as that used for Morris dancing. It can be seen as having distinct regional and local variations in content and style, particularly in areas more removed from the cultural and political centres of the English state, as in Northumbria, or the West Country. Cultural interchange and processes of migration mean that English folk music, although in many ways distinctive, has particularly interacted with the music of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. It has also interacted with other musical traditions, particularly classical and rock music, influencing musical styles and producing musical fusions, such as electric folk, folk punk and folk metal. There remains a flourishing sub-culture of English folk music, which continues to influence other genres and occasionally to gain mainstream attention.
The Lover may refer to:
Rakastava (The Lover), Op. 14, is a suite by Jean Sibelius. He completed it in 1912, scored for string orchestra, percussion and triangle. He based it on his earlier composition of the same name, a song cycle of four movements for men's chorus a cappella completed in 1894. The works are based on a Finnish text from Book 1 of Kanteletar.
Sibelius completed in 1894 Rakastava, a cycle of four songs for men's chorus a cappella on a Finnish text from Book 1 of the collection of Finnish folk poetry Kanteletar. He first set it in 1894, as an entry for a local competition. He won the second prize, while the first went to his former teacher. Sibelius arranged the cycle for men's chorus and string orchestra in 1894, and for mixed choir in 1898.
Sibelius used the cycle as the basis for an orchestral suite Rakastava for string orchestra, percussion and triangle, to which he assigned the opus number. 14. He completed it in 1912 when he also wrote his Fourth Symphony. Sibelius conducted the Rakastava suite often together with his symphonies to the 1920s, because the piece "captivated audiences".
The Lover (French: L'Amant) is a 1992 drama film produced by Claude Berri and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Based on the semi-autobiographical 1984 novel by Marguerite Duras, the film details the illicit affair between a teenage French girl and a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French Indochina. In the screenplay written by Annaud and Gérard Brach, the 15 1/2-year-old protagonist is portrayed by actress Jane March, who turned eighteen shortly after filming began. Her lover is portrayed by actor Tony Leung Ka-fai. The film features full-frontal male and female nudity.
Production began in 1989, with filming commencing in 1991. The film made its theatrical debut on 22 January 1992, with an English release in the United Kingdom in June and in the United States in October of the same year. The film won the Motion Picture Sound Editors's 1993 Golden Reel award for "Best Sound Editing — Foreign Feature" and the 1993 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film. It received a fairly positive review from the general audience and a mostly negative review from American critics. Overall, the film's performances and cinematography were generally praised.
Was it not hurt enough to feel?
Was it not cage enough to hold your head inside?
You will not find me waiting
You will not see me smile
This is the lover that you left me for
I hope you're happy too
Was it not hell enough to burn?
Was it not smoke enough to suffocate you?
I won't be waiting for you
I will be hiding from you
This is the lover that i left you for
I hope you're happy too
Was it not gold enough to steal
Was it not steel enough to make you
Want to hold your head inside?
....and cry?
We've gone too far to go the distance
We've gone too far to go
We've gone too far to go the distance
We've gone too far to go
We've gone too far to go the distance
We've gone too far to go
We've gone too far to go the distance
We go...
This is the lover that you left me for
This is the lover that you left me for
This is the lover that you left me for
This is the lover that you left me for