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- In his 2015 book Love Songs: The Hidden History, Ted Gioia explained how love ballads emerged in the 8th-century tunes of medieval Arab female slaves in Spain. Some 400 years later, 12th-century European troubadours spread their songs of longing, an early indication that pleasure and pain are natural bedfellows in a love song.
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Feb 14, 2024 · Love songs have been written by people as diverse as Confucius and Dolly Parton, and the love song remains a core part of 21st-century lives; an ingredient at every stage of romance, from a...
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Feb 16, 2015 · INTERESTED in songs about love and sex going back to ancient fertility rites, through the medieval troubadours and the German art song and into the age of “Tangled Up in Blue,” Ziggy Stardust, and bedroom R&B?
Jul 25, 2015 · In China, love songs appeared in the Shijing, the body of ancient folk songs and poems compiled by Confucius in around 500 BCE. In the Middle Ages, the Middle East saw a deep tradition of female slaves singing love songs to their masters, which would eventually influence European music in a big way.
Sep 18, 2021 · Every genre of music contains its own love songs. Every chapter in recorded history conveyed love through music. Although the general themes that were conveyed during each chapter of history were vaguely different, love songs were apparent as early as 2,000 BCE.
Feb 18, 2023 · The first evidence we have of love songs in ancient history dates back to Mesopotamia, where romantic and "suggestive" lyrics were written by the high priestess Enheduanna around 2000 BC. Fun fact: Enheduanna is also the earliest known named author in world history.
Feb 14, 2017 · The “love song” is undoubtedly timeless, pervading over the centuries–the themes of beauty, time, passion and heartache can be seen very early on in William Shakespeare’s sonnets, (among some of the first expressions of the love song), and with these universal ideas of love remaining ever-significant subject matter of popular music ...
Feb 8, 2017 · From today's top 100 Billboard songs to ancient Sumerian scripts, human beings have always sung about love. So how have love songs changed across the ages? Have they evolved to reflect society's understandings of love? Or have we been singing about basically the same things for millennia?
