Plena

Plena Libre's latest CD is a scorching live album titled Plena al Salsero, recorded in Monterrey, Mexico.

World Music Central 2008

Drifts of cherry blossom whirled on the pavements as I made my way towards my favourite Prunus avium "Plena", which overhangs the railings of Kennington Park.

London's fragrant front gardens 2010

In "Plena y Bomba," she sings: "In my grandmother's alley, love tastes like cinnamon / In my grandmother's alley, everything is inspiration."

How the Sounds of Africa Have Traveled Jim Fusilli 2011

Though the song titles tell us what we're hearing—"Plena y Bomba," for example, rises from Puerto Rico's bomba and plena folk forms while "Coco y Forro" celebrates northeast Brazil's forró and coco rhythms—Ms. Baca and the band encourage us to move to the polyrhythms while we learn.

How the Sounds of Africa Have Traveled Jim Fusilli 2011

The Paeonia officinalis "Rubra Plena" are nothing special as far as peonies go, but the beetroot spring growth and exotic frill of petals inspired a love of the group that has endured and continues to do so.

Perfect peonies 2010

It is then that the small, double, dusky-violet flowers of Clematis viticella "Purpurea Plena Elegans" bloom.

Suzy Bales: Roses as Climbers, Ramblers and Scramblers 2009

For "Esta Plena," Mr. Zenón composed 10 new pieces: five instrumentals and five with lyrics, on subjects ranging from the Puerto Rican economy to the joys of hearing plena music at a friend's New Year's celebration.

His Jazz Career's Rich Rewards 2008

In "Esta Plena," he phrased and harmonized in threes, in reference to the panderos.

His Jazz Career's Rich Rewards 2008

Earlier this month, Mr. Zenón returned to the Jazz Gallery for the premiere of his "Esta Plena," based on another traditional Puerto Rican musical style of rural origin, plena, and commissioned through the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

His Jazz Career's Rich Rewards 2008

BOOK THIRD l. 127 -- _freta concita terris_ with all the best MSS.; _consita_ Con.l. 152 -- _qua se Plena per insertas fundebat Luna fenestras.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil