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n. A genre of Cape Verdean music.
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The morna (pronunciation in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole: ) is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde.
Lyrics are usually in Cape Verdean Creole, and instrumentation often includes cavaquinho, clarinet, accordion, violin, piano and guitar.
Morna is widely considered the national music of Cape Verde, as is the fado for Portugal, the tango for Argentina, the merengue for Dominican Republic, the rumba for Cuba, and so on.
The best internationally known morna singer was Cesária Évora. Morna and other genres of Cape Verdean music are also played in Cape Verdean migrant communities abroad, especially in New England in the US, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, West Africa and parts of Latin America.
Morna may refer to:
- Morna (music), a genre of Cape Verdean music
- Morna, Estonia, a village in Estonia
- Morna, a synonym for the plant genus Waitzia
- Morna (band), a band from Slovakia
Morna is a Slovak progressive death metal band founded in 2010 by Michal Vlkovic, Jakub Filip and Robert Ruman. In summer of 2011, Tomas Cvecka, the last missing person, joined Morna as a full-time bass guitarist. In May 2013 the band has released studio album, debut called A Tale Of Woe. Morna is mainly distinctive for its ability to combine varied kind of elements and influences such as melodiousness, progressivity, use of acoustic guitar parts and heavy riffs, death growls and clean vocals and classical hard rock, progressive rock and blues influences.
In February 2014, the debut album A Tale Of Woe was nominated in category Hard and Heavy for Record of the year of 2013 in Radio Head Awards.
In May 2015 the band announced it is gearing up for recording the second full-length studio album. Recording started in July 2015 and continued to the end of November at the same year. In the same month, on 13 November, Morna posted an announcement about the title of the album via its official Facebook page. This album is called Nuisance. Track listing of Nuisance came in the same month as another revealing fact the band has announced to its followers.
With the second full-length studio album, Morna had a nomination in Radio Head Awards 2015 for the Record of the Year. The band has won the award for its work on Nuisance (2015), in category Hard & Heavy. To this date, Morna has been nominated second time in a row for this award and this is its first win. Radio_Head Awards ceremony took place at Stara trznica in Bratislava, on 13th of march of 2016.
Usage examples of "morna".
As the uneasy beasts of the valley watched, she passed the garlanded rod carefully over both Morna and Trussant.
Know that there is no evil in Trussant and Morna but that they will all be trail comrades together.
Aylinn astride Morna, barebacked as if she had mounted in a hurry, Trussant trotting to match her.
Aylinn was off Morna in an instant, swinging the strap of her bag across her shoulders.
He realized that his horse had been snorting and sidling, and he saw that Aylinn with Morna had caught up with him.
The reins of Morna laid loosely as his foster sister set arrow to bow, her moon wand thrust to safety at her belt.
With a last hateful look at her enemy, Brenna turned, keeping her arms firmly around her younger sister as the two followed Morna up the stairs.
When at last the two young women climbed over the balcony and began making their way down the uneven stone wall of the castle, old Morna stood watching, her lips moving in prayer.
Scotland I have thought often about my old nurse, Morna, who has been with me for a lifetime.
This he beheld from Morna Moruna, whereof he saith: 'The contery is hylly, sandy, and baren of wood and corne, as forest ful of lynge, mores, and mosses, with stony hillies.
Here is a mighty stronge and usid borow for flying serpens in sum baren, hethy, and sandy grownd, and thereby the litle round castel of Morna Moruna stondith on Omprenne Edge, as on the limit of the worlde, sore wether beten and yn ruine.
Out of this treasure, and from the treasure of rings and bracelets and torques that were with him, Goll mac Morna paid Fergus for his songs, and, much as Fionn had given, Goll gave twice as much.
But at that terrible sight Goll mae Morna blushed deeply and leaped from the ground.
At his Right hand his son Art, to be afterwards as famous as his famous father, took his seat, and on his left Goll mor mac Morna, chief of the Fianna of Ireland, had the seat of honour.
Art og mac Morna of the Hard Strokes fell to biting his fingers, Cona'n the Swearer and Garra mac Morna grumbled irritably to each other and at their neighbours, even Caelte, the son of Rona'n, looked down into his own lap, and Goll Mor sipped at his wine without any twinkle in his eye.