Farmers traditionally leave some of their products at the end of each harvesting season as an offering while their women sing traditional songs.

This opening reverted back to having the men and women sing two different verses, but they were re-shot.

) Unlike the throat singers in other regions of the world, particularly Tibet, Mongolia and Tuva, the Inuit performers are usually women who sing only duets in a kind of entertaining contest to see who can outlast the other.

As women were sometimes forbidden to sing in Church, their place was taken by castrati.

Historically, women were not allowed to sing in the Church so the soprano roles were given to young boys and later to castrati — men whose larynxes had been fixed in a pre-adolescent state through the process of castration.

In Europe, when women were not permitted to sing in church or cathedral choirs in the Roman Catholic Church, boys were castrated to prevent their voices breaking at puberty and to develop a special high voice.

Although some women who sing alto in a choir are contraltos, many would be more accurately called mezzo-sopranos ( a voice of somewhat higher range and different timbre ), and many male countertenors ( this latter term is a source of considerable controversy, some authorities preferring the usage of the term " male alto " for those countertenors who use a predominantly falsetto voice production ).

The women sing a song called Darraðarljóð, which Dörruð memorizes.

Nevertheless, a decree “ issued delineating the cult for the newly deified queen Berenike II … specified that men and women singers were to sing all day in front of the statue of Berenike .”

Groups of pandereteiras are traditional sets of singing women that play tambourines and sing.

* He stopped the production of psalms to Christ, and trained women to sing psalms to himself as an angel come down from heaven.

The falsetto register is used by male countertenors to sing in the alto and occasionally the soprano range, and was the standard before women sang in choirs.

) On this occasion Siwi men meet together on a mountain near the town, Jabal Dakrour, to eat together, sing chants thanking God, and reconcile with one another ; the women stay behind in the village, and celebrate with dancing, singing, and drums.

; Mukoli Bihu: Young unmarried men and women attired in traditional golden silk muga dance the bihu and sing bihu songs in the open fields.

The University of Paris complained: " Priests and clerks .. dance in the choir dressed as women .. they sing wanton songs.

The honoree ( or honorees ) are seated and crowned with flowers while local women dance and sing for them.

They are well versed in pop-culture and sing about funny topics, such as infidelity and boasting about their prowess with women.

During bikutsi, women dance and sing along with the balafon, and lyrics focus on real-life problems, as well as sexual fantasies.

The rest of the men and women sing and clap their hands.

The Royal Artillery Concert Party consists of a handful of soldiers who sing, dance and dress up as women and are stationed permanently in Deolali to entertain the troops.

And since he had so many women, Yeston thought, instead of having the band play the overture, have all the women sing it.

Young men and women at Rodhi often sing call-and-response songs called dohori, which are largely improvised.

A funeral service is held on the following day, where the women sing songs inside the Bundren house while the men stand outside on the porch talking to each other.

# Early meeting phase where men and women sing songs and recite poems to one another.

But the boom of women's boxing came during the 1990s, coinciding with the boom in professional women sports leagues such as the WNBA and WUSA, and with boxers such as Stephanie Jaramillo Delia ' Chikita ' Gonzalez, Laura Serrano, Christy Martin, Deirdre Gogarty, Laila Ali, Jackie Frazier-Lyde, Lucia Rijker, Ada Vélez, Ivonne Caples, Bonnie Canino and Sumya Anani, all world champions, jumping into the scene.

In her successful re-election campaign in 1960, she ran against Democrat Lucia Cormier, the minority leader of the Maine House of Representatives ; it was the first time in American history that two women ran against each other for a Senate seat.

Lucia ( Rampling ) is not specifically identified as Jewish, possibly to depict the plight of all women.

Often, women who sing dramatic coloratura roles have the ability to cross over to the more lyric roles ( and vice versa ); for instance, Joan Sutherland, Diana Damrau ( dramatic to lyric ); Lucia Popp, and Natalie Dessay ( lyric to dramatic ).

In her various capacities as a Minister from 1997-2004, Flood Beaubrun oversaw the construction of the first new correctional institution in St. Lucia for over 100 years, the complete upgrading and revamping to international standards of the main intake area of the islands primary medical institution, the establishment of the 1st women ’ s support center for abused women, the creation of the 1st Mother to Child HIV prevention of transmission program in St. Lucia, plus other programs.

The works feature various women in different emotional states, some accompanied by poems and song lyrics.

Love's song lyrics are predominantly told from a female's point of view, and her earlier work, particularly on Hole's first two albums, was noted for being highly aggressive and critical toward cultural definitions of women.

The song was retitled to " Alma Mater " in the 1980s when its lyrics were changed to refer to women as well as men.

" The last few years I had been complaining about that fact that there weren ’ t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for “ Friday Night Girls " ... I wanted to write a three minute song with every Sex and the City episode that had ever existed, so I did.

The album is Amos's first concept album, with artwork featuring Amos photographed in character of the women portrayed in each song.

In the song A more humane Mikado, the Mikado sings of the punishment for older women who dye their hair or wear corsets, to be " Blacked like a nigger / With permanent walnut juice.

The lyrics to the Meatmen's song " Lesbian Death Dirge " read, " Twisted women in a line.

" A song by Elephant Man proclaims: " When you hear a lesbian getting raped / It's not our fault ... Two women in bed / That's two sodomites who should be dead.

" Many female hip hop artists have challenged male rappers ' use of the word bitch to refer to women, with Queen Latifah asking in her 1993 song " U. N. I. T. Y.

Five thousand women gather at the palace singing a song of peace and pleading with the king to end the war.

The fragment, which is now kept at the Louvre in Paris, France, contains approximately 100 verses of a so-called partheneion, i. e. a song performed by a chorus of young unmarried women.

Later, Sting would perform the song on stage in Chile and Argentina, dancing with some of those same women.

The song bears no relationship to the original song, which is a tongue-in-cheek assessment of Flemish women.

As Wuriupranili prepares herself for her journey across the sky the birds break into song, waking the men and women.

The women engaged in music, song and dance on their way to the place, great sacrifices were made and prodigious amounts of wine were drunk, more than was the case throughout the year.

This song claims that men are also capable of crying ( presumably, in addition to women ) and feel just as sad as the other sex.

The Broken Social Scene song " Texico Bitches ," from their 2010 album, Forgiveness Rock Record, is inspired by women from the city of Texico.

Geffen Records refused to release the song " Yellow Fever " because of its graphic lyrical content about Asian women.

Wealthy Yemeni-American brothers Steve ( Will Ferrell ) and Doug Butabi ( Chris Kattan ) enjoy frequenting Los Angeles nightclubs, where they bob their heads in unison to dance music ( specifically Haddaway's hit song " What Is Love ") and fail miserably at picking up women.

* The epigraph of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ) is from Browne's Hydriotaphia ,( Chap. 5 ): " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture ".

The portrayal of the women in the song is a tribute to the non-traditional, the " too smart for her own good " type of woman who is often misunderstood by society.

According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Voss is the most likely source for the phrase Wein, Weib und Gesang, or, in English, wine, women and song.

Voss's full phrase is Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang / Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebelang (" He who loves not wine, women and song / Remains a fool his whole life long ").