Various Positions, the Glossary

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1. 93 relations: Album, AllMusic, Anjani, Anohni and the Johnsons, ARIA Charts, Arrangement, Audio engineer, Audio mixing (recorded music), Backing vocalist, Barbra Streisand, Bass guitar, Bathsheba, Bob Dylan, Book of Judges, Brazil, C major, Careless Love (album), Casio, CBC Radio, Chord progression, Classical guitar, Classical music, Columbia Records, Compact disc, Contemporary folk music, Country music, Dance Me to the End of Love, David, David Campbell (composer), Death of a Ladies' Man (album), Delilah, Dominant (music), Drum kit, Dynasty (1981 TV series), Extermination camp, Fiddle, Gospel music, Guitar, Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song), I Am a Hotel, I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen album), Instant film, Jann Arden, Jeff Buckley, Jennifer Warnes, John Cale, John Lissauer, Johnny Cash, Keyboard instrument, Leonard Cohen, ... Expand index (43 more) »

2. Albums produced by John Lissauer
3. Leonard Cohen albums

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Anjani

Anjani Thomas (born July 10, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist, best known for her work with singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, as well as Carl Anderson, Frank Gambale, and Stanley Clarke.

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Anohni and the Johnsons

Anohni and the Johnsons (previously known as Antony and the Johnsons) is a music ensemble originally based in New York City that presents the work of English singer-songwriter Anohni and her collaborators.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Audio mixing (recorded music)

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of optimizing and combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.

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Backing vocalist

A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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Bathsheba

Bathsheba (or; בַּת־שֶׁבַע, Baṯ-šeḇaʿ, Bat-Sheva or Batsheva, "daughter of Sheba" or "daughter of the oath") was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, according to the Hebrew Bible.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Book of Judges

The Book of Judges (Sefer Shoftim; Κριτές; Liber Iudicum) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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C major

C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common keys used in music.

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Careless Love (album)

Careless Love is the third studio album by American singer Madeleine Peyroux, released on September 14, 2004, by Rounder Records.

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Casio

is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.

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CBC Radio

CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Chord progression

In a musical composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural) is a succession of chords.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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Contemporary folk music

Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid-20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Dance Me to the End of Love

"Dance Me to the End of Love" is a 1984 song by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen.

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David

David ("beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.

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David Campbell (composer)

David Richard Campbell (born 7 February 1948) is a Canadian-American arranger, composer, and conductor.

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Death of a Ladies' Man (album)

Death of a Ladies' Man is the fifth studio album by Leonard Cohen, produced and co-written by Phil Spector. Various Positions and Death of a Ladies' Man (album) are Leonard Cohen albums.

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Delilah

Delilah (meaning "delicate";Gesenius's Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon Dalīlah; Dalidá) is a woman mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible.

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Dominant (music)

In music, the dominant is the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale.

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Drum kit

A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.

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Dynasty (1981 TV series)

Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981, to May 11, 1989.

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Extermination camp

Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)

"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984).

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I Am a Hotel

I Am a Hotel is a 1983 Canadian made for TV short musical film, written by Leonard Cohen and Mark Shekter and directed by Allan F. Nicholls.

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I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen album)

I'm Your Man is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, released on February 2, 1988 by Columbia Records. Various Positions and I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen album) are Leonard Cohen albums.

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Instant film

Instant film is a type of photographic film that was introduced by Polaroid Corporation to produce a visible image within minutes or seconds of the photograph's exposure.

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Jann Arden

Jann Arden (born Jann Arden Anne Richards; March 27, 1962) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, author and actress.

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Jeff Buckley

Jeffrey Scott Buckley (raised as Scott Moorhead; November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997) was an American musician and singer-songwriter.

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Jennifer Warnes

Jennifer Jean Warnes (born March 3, 1947) is an American singer and songwriter who has performed as a vocalist on a number of film soundtracks.

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John Cale

John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground.

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John Lissauer

John Lissauer is an American composer, producer, and performer.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.

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Madeleine Peyroux

Madeleine Peyroux (born April 19, 1974) is an American jazz singer and songwriter who began her career as a teenager on the streets of Paris.

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Martin Gore

Martin Lee Gore (born 23 July 1961) is an English musician and songwriter.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo (stylised in all caps) is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer.

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New Skin for the Old Ceremony

New Skin for the Old Ceremony, released in 1974, is the fourth studio album by Leonard Cohen. Various Positions and New Skin for the Old Ceremony are albums produced by John Lissauer and Leonard Cohen albums.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Official Finnish Charts

The Official Finnish Charts (Suomen virallinen lista; Finlands officiella lista) are national record charts in Finland compiled and published by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.

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Orchestration

Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra.

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Patricia O'Callaghan

Patricia Mary O'Callaghan (born October 2, 1970) is a classically trained Canadian singer.

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Phil Spector

Harvey Phillip Spector (December 26, 1939 – January 16, 2021) was an American record producer best known for his innovative recording practices and entrepreneurship in the 1960s along with his two trials and conviction for the murder of Lana Clarkson in the 2000s.

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Photography

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Q (radio show)

q with Tom Power (previously known as Q with Jian Ghomeshi) is a Canadian arts magazine show produced by and airing on CBC Radio One, with syndication to public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio Exchange.

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Recent Songs

Recent Songs is the sixth studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1979. Various Positions and Recent Songs are Leonard Cohen albums.

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Record producer

A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Ron Sexsmith

Ronald Eldon Sexsmith (born January 8, 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario.

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Royalton Hotel

The Royalton Hotel is a hotel at 44 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States.

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Samson

Samson (Šīmšōn "man of the sun") was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution of the monarchy.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director.

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Sid McGinnis

Sidney Foster "Sid" McGinnis (born October 6, 1949) is an American musician and guitarist, best known for his work on the CBS television show Late Show with David Letterman, as part of the CBS Orchestra.

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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Soft rock

Soft rock (also known as light rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions.

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Southern France

Southern France, also known as the south of France or colloquially in French as le Midi, is a defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Marais Poitevin,Louis Papy, Le midi atlantique, Atlas et géographie de la France moderne, Flammarion, Paris, 1984.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Subdominant

In music, the subdominant is the fourth tonal degree of the diatonic scale.

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In music, the submediant is the sixth degree of a diatonic scale.

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Suzanne (Leonard Cohen song)

"Suzanne" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1960s.

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Sylvie Simmons

Sylvie Simmons is a London-born, California-based music journalist, named as a "principal player" in Paul Gorman's book on the history of the rock music press In Their Own Write (Sanctuary Publishing, 2001).

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal group founded in 1969 in New York City, performing music genres like A cappella, Brazilian jazz, swing, vocalese, rhythm and blues, pop, and standards.

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Tower of Song

Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen is a tribute album to Leonard Cohen, released in 1995 on A&M Records.

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Trisha Yearwood

Patricia Lynn Yearwood (born September 19, 1964) is an American country singer.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Walter Yetnikoff

Walter Yetnikoff (August 11, 1933 – August 9, 2021) was an American music industry executive who was the president of CBS Records International from 1971 to 1975 and then president and CEO of CBS Records from 1975 to 1990.

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Waltz

The waltz, meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple (4 time), performed primarily in closed position.

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Watchmen (film)

Watchmen is a 2009 American superhero film based on the 1986–1987 DC Comics limited series of the same name co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons (with co-creator and author Alan Moore choosing to remain uncredited).

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See also

Albums produced by John Lissauer

• Final Exam (album)
• New Skin for the Old Ceremony
• Various Positions

Leonard Cohen albums

• Dear Heather
• Death of a Ladies' Man (album)
• I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen album)
• Leonard Cohen discography
• New Skin for the Old Ceremony
• Old Ideas
• Popular Problems
• Recent Songs
• Songs from a Room
• Songs of Leonard Cohen
• Songs of Love and Hate
• Ten New Songs
• Thanks for the Dance
• The Future (Leonard Cohen album)
• Various Positions
• You Want It Darker

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Various_Positions

Also known as The Captain (Leonard Cohen song), The Law (Leonard Cohen song).

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