有哪些故事性强的英文歌推荐
推荐霉霉Taylor Swift的歌。众所周知,霉霉的创作总和自己的感情经历有过,基本上新交上男友或者新分手都会有歌出现。所以必然故事性很强,拿其中比较有名的love story来简单分析一下:
We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes and the flashback starts
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air
See the lights see the party the ball gowns
See you make your way through the crowd
And say hello
Little did I know
That you were Romeo you were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you please don't go
And I said
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes
So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes
Escape this town for a little while
Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go
And I said
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes
据说这首歌的创作背景是霉霉的父母强烈反对她和一个男生交往,霉霉得到了《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的灵感,联系自己的生活实际写下了这首歌。而且不同于莎士比亚的悲剧结尾,霉霉的结尾两人用真挚的爱情感化了父母,过上幸福的生活。
从歌词来看,故事性非常强。开篇就指出了两人相识于年少,然后开始闪回。当年自己站在阳台上,在灯红酒绿中看见了翩翩少年罗密欧。父母不同意,于是自己只能哭泣。请求罗密欧带走自己,两人双宿双飞,快乐的过日子。
从语言方面,因为有很多叙述的成分,所以过去时,现在时和将来时的使用非常多元化。大家在听歌的时候可以顺便巩固一下时态哟~
From 夏子老师,一个接地气的知识分子。 微信公众号:夏子英文课
Caprice是96年成立的学院派新古典组合,它的成员都是受过古典音乐培训来自俄罗斯各大剧院交响乐团的青年成员。在音乐风格上,他们不同于以往的古典组合,并不沉闷,却有一种精灵的神圣感。就像托尔金笔下的精灵族一样,有一天,你误闯到森林深处,听到一群精灵在嬉戏,仙女在歌唱。
他们足够独特,你能从音乐里听出他们扎实的音乐功底,不论是对古典音乐的演绎,还是精彩的大转音,都处理得很棒。
这次要推荐的是他们Sister simplicity这张专辑,所有歌词全都出自莎士比亚、拜伦、王尔德等大文豪的诗作。直接把诗唱出来,而且唱得那么美,从始至终悠扬婉转,如一道清泉,蜿蜒穿过白雪皑皑的群山、幽邃深谧的森林和广袤无垠的原野。
1,《The Dole of the King's Daughter》
这首歌就是由王尔德的诗改编的。从数量上看,王尔德一生所写的诗歌甚至还没有超过一百首,但他的诗歌在形式上却有着多样的尝试和贡献,诗风适度变化而又不失整饬,华贵、靡丽而不艳俗,沉郁、伤感却依旧清新。
这让这首歌变成了音乐与诗歌的绝妙结合,一个美丽公主的后花园一切静谧而安好,只有她知那星光深处芦苇丛生的河荫卧着亡去的骑士与依旧动人的侍从,是开在她胸襟的鲜红玫瑰。
“七星耀于静水,七星悬于夜幕。”“她的灵魂背负七宗罪,而他仅受于一罪。”
结尾是这般意味深长。
2,《A Red Red Rose》
这首是Caprice结合了英国19世纪浪漫主义诗人Robert Burns那首著名的《A Red Red Rose》。它采用了苏格兰民谣的形式,语言简洁,感情真挚。这首诗有一种韵律美,在Caprice的演绎下,让人忍不住觉得,诗歌果然是需要用来听的,不是用来读的啊。这首歌英专的人应该听起来很亲切~
“O my luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O my luve is like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.”
整首诗歌都让人感到浓浓的爱意,这首诗是诗人的代表作.它开了英国浪漫主义诗歌的先河.对济慈、拜伦等人有很大的影响。
这首
3,《Autumn》
这首不同于上面两首,整首歌的风格更加萧肃,这首歌词是雪莱的秋:挽歌,歌曲意象符合雪莱对秋的描绘。
The warm sun is falling, the bleak wind is wailing,
The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,
And the Year
On the earth is her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead,Is lying.
金乌坠,寒风号,
光枝叹,白花凋。
大地是临终之床,
落叶即为裹尸布---此年正一命呜呼。
纵观雪莱的一生,他的核心是“抗议”。基于“改造世界的强烈爱好”,他的诗歌就是革命的传道。他的墓志铭上刻着“波西·比西·雪莱,众心之心”,下面还有莎士比亚的诗句:“他的一切未曾消逝,只经历了一场海的变异,变得更加丰富,更加奇丽”。
以上就是对Caprice的一些介绍,确切地说是对他们这张Sister simplicity专辑的介绍,他们不同专辑的风格都会有所侧重和变化,是我非常喜欢的一个组合。
Here lie remains of a ship
That sailed to close to the storm
Capsized grounded washed-up sounded
I hear their voices sirens singing in the street
I thought they might be calling out for you for me
I hear their voices sirens calling out emergency
for you for me for you for you for you
for you for you for you for me
Here lies the body of a captain
Foundered in the waves collected by the sirens
Oh wise women of the sun
Oh what have you done
Save this frail one left by Poseidon
I hear their voices sirens singing in the street
I thought they might be calling out for you for me
I hear their voices sirens calling out emergency
For you for me for you for you for you
For you for you for you for me
For you for you for you for you
For you for you for me
I realize the lights of
All retreating cars shine red
I realize you will not take back
Any of those words you've said
What did you say
What did you say
Why didn't you stay
Here lie all the photographs
All that I remember taken under sent asunder
How I drift through history
A small Sargasso sea
Rising sinking still I'm thinking
I hear their voices sirens singing in the street
I thought they might be calling out for you for me
I hear their voices sirens calling out emergency
For you for me for you for you for you
For you for you for you for me
For you for you for you for you
For you for you for me
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