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America (West Side Story song)

Index America (West Side Story song)

“America” is a song from the musical West Side Story. Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics and Leonard Bernstein composed the music. [1]

63 relations: Admiral Insurance, AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, AllMusic, America (Simon & Garfunkel song), Antonín Dvořák, Blue Rondo à la Turk, Buick, Bulerías, Carmen, Chris Squire, Classical guitar, Contradanza, Cross-beat, Dave Brubeck, Don't Tread on Me (Metallica song), Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, For New York, George Chakiris, Girlfriend, Glee (season 3), Glee (TV series), Habanera (aria), Hemiola, Hispanic, Huapango, Immigration, John Williams, Keith Emerson, King Kurt, Late Night with David Letterman, Latin percussion, Leonard Bernstein, Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Emerson, Lake and Palmer album), Mark Salling, Metallica, Musical theatre, Name That Tune, Naya Rivera, Ogg, Paul Shaffer, Prejudice, Progressive rock, Puck (Glee), Puerto Rico, Rita Moreno, Royal Albert Hall, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Santana Lopez, Simon & Garfunkel, ..., Stephen Sondheim, Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák), The First Time (Glee), The Muppet Show, The Muppets, The Nice, Trini Lopez, Trini Lopez at PJ's, United States, Volume 2 (Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album), West Side Story, West Side Story (film), Yes (band). Expand index (13 more) »

Admiral Insurance

Admiral, a trading name of EUI Limited, is a car insurance specialist founded in January 1993.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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America (Simon & Garfunkel song)

"America" is a song performed by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel, which they released from their fourth studio album, Bookends, in 1968.

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Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer.

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Blue Rondo à la Turk

"Blue Rondo à la Turk" is a jazz standard composition by Dave Brubeck.

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Buick

Buick, formally the Buick Motor Division, is an upscale automobile brand of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

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Bulerías

Bulería (interchangeable with the plural, bulerías) is a fast flamenco rhythm in 12 beats with emphasis in two general forms as follows: 1 2 4 5 7 9 11 or 1 2 4 5 6 9 11 It may also be broken down into a measure of followed by a measure of (known as hemiola) counted as such: 1 1 2 4 5 7 9 - 1 2 4 5 7 9 11 An interesting counting method has been used by Pepe Romero, in his book Classical Guitar Style and Technique, which is 2 measures of time followed by 3 measures of time.

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet.

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Chris Squire

Christopher Russell Edward Squire (4March 1948 – 27June 2015) was an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist and a founder of the progressive rock band Yes.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar (also known as concert guitar, classical acoustic, nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar) is the member of the guitar family used in classical music.

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Contradanza

Contradanza (also called contradanza criolla, danza, danza criolla, or habanera) is the Spanish and Spanish-American version of the contradanse, which was an internationally popular style of music and dance in the 18th century, derived from the English country dance and adopted at the court of France.

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Cross-beat

In music, a cross-beat or cross-rhythm is a specific form of polyrhythm.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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Don't Tread on Me (Metallica song)

"Don't Tread on Me" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica, from the eponymous fifth album, Metallica.

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Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem

Dr.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.

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For New York

For New York (Variations on Themes of Leonard Bernstein) (originally titled To Lenny! To Lenny!) is a one-movement orchestral composition by the American composer John Williams.

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George Chakiris

George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is an American dancer, singer and actor.

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Girlfriend

A girlfriend is a female friend or acquaintance, often a regular female companion with whom one is platonic, romantically or sexually involved.

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Glee (season 3)

The third season of the musical comedy-drama television series Glee was commissioned on May 23, 2010 by Fox while the first season aired.

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Glee (TV series)

Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19, 2009, to March 20, 2015.

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Habanera (aria)

Habanera (music or dance of Havana) is the popular name for "" ("Love is a rebellious bird"), an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen.

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Hemiola

In music, hemiola (also hemiolia) is the ratio 3:2.

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Hispanic

The term Hispanic (hispano or hispánico) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.

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Huapango

Huapango is a Mexican folk dance and music style, part of the style son huasteco.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Keith Emerson

Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English musician and composer.

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King Kurt

King Kurt are a psychobilly rock band from the UK.

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Late Night with David Letterman

Late Night with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman.

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Latin percussion

The term Latin percussion refers to any number of a large family of musical instruments in the percussion, membranophone, lamellophone and/or idiophone family used in Latin music, which in turn is a very loosely related group of musical styles, mainly from the Latin American region, and ultimately having roots or influences in African tribal music.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Emerson, Lake and Palmer album)

Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

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Mark Salling

Mark Wayne Salling (August 17, 1982 – January 30, 2018) was an American actor and musician.

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Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Name That Tune

Name That Tune is an American television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs.

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Naya Rivera

Naya Marie Rivera (born January 12, 1987) is an American actress and singer.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Paul Shaffer

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015).

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Prejudice

Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person or group member based solely on that person's group membership.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Puck (Glee)

Noah "Puck" Puckerman is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer and singer.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Saint John) is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Santana Lopez

Santana Lopez is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)

The Symphony No.

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The First Time (Glee)

"The First Time" is the fifth episode of the third season of the American musical television series Glee, and the forty-ninth overall.

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The Muppet Show

The Muppet Show is a family-oriented comedy-variety television series that was produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and features The Muppets.

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The Muppets

The Muppets are an ensemble cast of puppet characters known for their self-aware, burlesque, and meta-referential style of variety-sketch comedy.

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The Nice

The Nice were an English progressive rock band active in the late 1960s.

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Trini Lopez

Trinidad "Trini" López III (born May 15, 1937) is an American singer, guitarist, and actor.

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Trini Lopez at PJ's

Trini Lopez at PJ's is the debut, live album by singer and guitarist Trini Lopez, released in 1963 on Reprise Records.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Volume 2 (Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album)

Volume 2 is the second album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, known in this recording as "Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass".

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West Side Story

West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

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West Side Story (film)

West Side Story is a 1961 American romantic musical tragedy film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

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Yes (band)

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.

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America (Leonard Bernstein song), America (West Side Story), America 1956 Song, América (song).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(West_Side_Story_song)

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