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Thread #170041   Message #4111493
Posted By: Felipa
26-Jun-21 - 02:40 PM
Thread Name: Any July Songs
Subject: RE: Any July Songs
songs for Bastille Day (14 July)
http://www.top2040.com/2015/07/songs-for-bastille-day-french-revolution.html (mainly pop songs about freedom but first on the list is more directly connected to the occasion, "Bastille Day by Rush. An obvious top choice. The songs rocks out, and the deserves another listen. So we're marching to Bastille Day, the guillotine will claim her bloody prize..."

https://frenchculture.org/music/12057-music-bastille-day

"If you are curious about Bastille Day's traditional songs
This year, to celebrate Bastille Day, we offer you a special playlist with tunes inspired by July 14. Amongst French Revolution songs, you will find Chant du Départ, a revolutionary and war song written by Étienne Nicolas Méhul (music) and Marie-Joseph Chénier (words) in 1794. This song was the official anthem of the First Empire. Nowadays, it is also the regional anthem of French Guiana.

"We also invite you to discover (or rediscover) La Marseille which is the country's national anthem, written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria. In 1946, in London, the great French jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt improvised a gypsy jazz version of it with the French-Italian jazzman Stéphane Grappelli. A delight for the ears!

2Popular songs about July 14 include Douce France, written by Charles Trénet in 1943; the famous Song of Roland, one of the oldest French epic poem, written in 1083; as well as 14 Juillet (July 14), a song written in 1940 by the Swiss composer Gilles Jean-Villard for the occupied France and sung in 1943 by the French artist Renée Lebas."

The playlist of 14 songs is at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZHf4lSQbr972PKcPApakP?si=zEiVHSk_QCGysdrE9r27UA&nd=1