"La Folia" x 2
One of the mysteries of music is why some melodies have such deep roots, deep enough to sustain them across decades, centuries. The most enduring of these, you can't remember when you first heard them. It seems you've always known "Greensleeves." "La Folia" ["mad", "foolish"], though hardly known by its name outside of performance circles, is in its way as deeply embedded in us as is "Greensleeves." Hints of the melody can be found in southern Europe as far back as the 16th century, but it does not appear in the form we know until 1672 in France. Once perfected and published, the melody took hold of us and has not let go yet. Composer after composer has taken up "La Folia" (or is the other way around?) and played with it, usually in the form of "theme and variations." It appears in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, and Vangelis did a version for Conquest of Paradise.
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