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"Mysterious" is Jentina's third and final single from her eponynomus debut album, Jentina, and was released only in Italy. Plans were made for a UK release but were cancelled.

A music video, directed by Ben Ib was made for this single with a futuristic theme. The video was mostly computerized with Jentina singing in many different locations and appearing in many different magazines.

Track listing[link]

1. Mysterious
2. Mysterious [The Vanden Plas Remix]
3. Mysterious [James Ford Remix]
4. Mysterious [Return to The Stone Age Mix]

Chart performance[link]

Look up mysterious, mysteriousness, or mystery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Mystery, mysteries, or mysterious may refer to:

Religion[link]

• Sacred mysteries, supernatural phenomena associated with a divinity or religious ideology
• Mystery play, a form of medieval European dramatic theatre dealing with religious themes

Culture[link]

Genres[link]

• Mystery fiction, a genre of detective fiction
• Mystery film, a genre in cinema

Literature[link]

• Mystery (novel), a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub
• Mystery, a cat character in Emily the Strange
• Mysteries (novel) or Mysterier, an 1892 existentialist novel by Knut Hamsun

Film and television[link]

• Mystery!, a long-running PBS program showcasing British detective fiction
• Mystery TV, a Canadian digital television channel
• Mystery (television), a children's television show
• "Mystery" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of the children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse

Music[link]

• Mystery (band), a Canadian progressive rock band formed in 1986
• Mysterious, a 1988 release by Shizuka Kudō
• Mystery (Vanilla Fudge album), a 1984 release by Vanilla Fudge
• Mystery (Faye Wong album), a 1994 release by Faye Wong
• Mystery, a 2006 release by Evonne Hsu
• Mystery (Yoga Lin album), a 2008 release by Yoga Lin
• "Mysterious", from the 1999 album Eye II Eye by Scorpions
• "Mysterious" (song), from the 2005 album Jentina by Jentina
• "Mystery", from the 1984 album The Last in Line by Dio
• "Mystery" (Live song), from the 2006 album Songs from Black Mountain by alternative rock group Live
• "Mystery", from the album Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One by The Olivia Tremor Control
• "Mystery", a comic song written and performed by Hugh Laurie for the television series A Bit of Fry & Laurie
• "Mystery", a 1984 pop song, sometimes jazz, by the a cappella group The Manhattan Transfer

People[link]

• Mystery (pickup artist) (born 1971), stage name of entertainer Erik Von Markovik

Other[link]

• Mystery (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe
• Mystery (lugger), a Mount's Bay lugger

Ships[link]

• USS Mystery, the name of more than one proposed or actual United States Navy ships

See also[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mystery

• Anomaly (disambiguation)
• Fushigi (disambiguation), Japanese for "mystery" or "secret"
• Mystère (disambiguation)
• Secret
• unsolved problem

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Three singers-a trio-singing a song while accompanied on a lute played by one of the singers. Das Konzert [The Concert] (c. 1490, Lorenzo Costa).

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing. A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs. The lyrics (words) of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, though they may be religious verses or free prose.

A song may be for a solo singer, a duet, trio, or larger ensemble involving more voices. Songs with more than one voice to a part are considered choral works. Songs can be broadly divided into many different forms, depending on the criteria used. One division is between "art songs", "pop songs", and "folk songs". Other common methods of classification are by purpose (sacred vs secular), by style (dance, ballad, Lied, etc.), or by time of origin (Renaissance, Contemporary, etc.).

A song is a piece of music for accompanied or unaccompanied voice or voices or, "the act or art of singing," but the term is generally not used for large vocal forms including opera and oratorio.^[1] However, the term is, "often found in various figurative and transferred sense (e.g. for the lyrical second subject of a sonata...)."^[1] The noun "song" has the same etymological root as the verb "to sing" and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the word to mean "that which is sung" or "a musical composition suggestive of song." The OED also defines the word to mean "a poem" or "the musical phrases uttered by some birds, whales, and insects, typically forming a recognizable and repeated sequence and used chiefly for territorial defence or for attracting mates." ^[2]

Cultural types[link]

Art songs[link]

Art songs are songs created for performance in their own right, usually with piano accompaniment, although they can also have other types of accompaniment such as an orchestra or string quartet, and are always notated. Generally they have an identified author and composer and require voice training for acceptable performance. German-speaking communities use the term art song ("Kunstlied") to distinguish so-called "serious" compositions from folk song ("Volkslied"). The lyrics are often written by a poet or lyricist and the music separately by a composer. Art songs may be more formally complicated than popular or folk songs, though many early Lieder by the likes of Franz Schubert are in simple strophic form. They are often important to national identity.

Art songs feature in many European cultures, including but not limited to: Russian (romancy), German (Lieder), Italian (canzoni), French (mélodies), Scandinavian (sånger), Portuguese (canções), Spanish (canciones). There are also highly regarded British and American art songs in the English language. Cultures outside of Europe that have a classical music tradition, such as India, may or may not feature art songs. The accompaniment of European art songs is considered as an important part of the composition.

The art song of the period in which they originally flowered is often a duet in which the vocalist and accompanist share in interpretive importance. The pieces were most often written to be performed in a home or salon setting, although today the works enjoy popularity as concert pieces. The emergence of poetry during this era was much of what inspired the creation of these pieces by Brahms, Schumann, Schubert and other composers. These composers set poems in their native language. Many works were inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Heine. Another method would be to write new music for each stanza to create a unique form; this was through-composed form known in German as durchkomponiert. A combination of both of these techniques in a single setting was called a modified strophic form. Often romantic art songs sharing similar elements were grouped as a song cycle.^[3]

Folk songs[link]

Folk songs are songs of often anonymous origin (or are public domain) that are transmitted orally. They are frequently a major aspect of national or cultural identity. Art songs often approach the status of folk songs when people forget who the author was. Folk songs are also frequently transmitted non-orally (that is, as sheet music), especially in the modern era. Folk songs exist in almost every culture.

Popular songs[link]

Modern popular songs are typically distributed as recordings and are played on the radio, though all other mass media that have audio capabilities are involved. Their relative popularity is inferred from commercially significant sales of recordings, ratings of stations and networks that play them, and ticket sales for concerts by the recording artists. A popular song can become a modern folk song when members of the public who learn to sing it from the recorded version teach their version to others. Popular songs may be called pop songs for short, although pop songs or pop music may instead be considered a more commercially popular genre of popular music as a whole.

See also[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Song

• Air (music)
• Animal song: bird song, whale song, zoomusicology
• Aria
• Ballad
• Canticle
• Category:Musical forms
• Hymn
• Instrumental
• Lied
• Madrigal (music)
• Song structure (popular music)
• Vocal music
• Theme song
• Poem and song
• Singing

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Marcello Sorce Keller (1984), "The Problem of Classification in Folksong Research: a Short History", Folklore, XCV, no. 1, 100- 104.