Patria may refer to:
Patria is a cycle of music-theatre works written over a period of 40 years by R. Murray Schafer. The title derives from the Latin word for "homeland". The cycle is framed by a prologue The Princess of the Stars and an epilogue And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon, and includes ten other major works. All twelve of the works place heavy emphasis on the location of performance. The third production in the series, Patria 3: The Greatest Show, was adapted into the film Carnival of Shadows. The cycle is in a continual state of evolution as participants of And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon return to perform the work each summer, revising the content of the performance to accommodate the current environment of the site and needs of the performance community.
In 1966, Schafer originally conceived of Patria as a bipartite work, where the two halves would be performed simultaneously on separate stages. Instead, the two halves became Patria 1 and 2. By 1979, Schafer began to think of Patria as a cycle of six works. By 1990, the cycle settled into its current form of a dozen works.
Patria (Homeland) is an album released by the Chilean folk group Quilapayún in 1975.
Hace algun tiempo me preguntaba un chiquillo
Por el significado de la palabra Patria.
Me sorprendio con su pregunta
y con el alma en la garganta le dije asi:
“Flor de barrio, hermanito, Patria, son tantas cosas bellas...
Como aquel viejo arbol que nos habla de Puebla,
Como el carino que aguardas despues de muerta tu abuela
Patria, son tantas cosas bellas....”
“Son las paredes de un barrio, que separa esa pareja,
es lo que lleva en el alma todo aquel cuando se aleja.
Son los martires que gritan: Bandera, Bandera, Bandera, Bandera.”
No memorices lecciones de dictaduras ni encierros,
La Patria no la definen los que suprimen a un pueblo.”
“La Patria es un sentimiento en la mirada de un viejo,
son la eterna primavera, risa de hermanita nueva,
te contesto hermanito: Patria son tantas cosas bellas...”