19 (number) - Music

Music

• 19 is the debut album from English soul and jazz singer Adele.
• 19 is the fourth studio album from Russian pop singer Alsou.
• 19 is Evan Yo's first album, because Yo was nineteen years old when the album was released.
• "19" is a 1985 song by Paul Hardcastle, including sampled soundbites taken from a documentary about the Vietnam War in which 19 is claimed to have been the average age of United States soldiers killed in the conflict (an assertion which is widely disputed). The song was parodied by British satirist Rory Bremner under the pseudonym 'The Commentators,' as N-n-nineteen, Not Out, the title referring to the batting average of David Gower, the England cricket captain, during his side's risible performance against the West Indies in 1984 when they lost 5-0.

• With a similar name and anti-Vietnam War theme, "I Was Only Nineteen" by the Australian group Redgum reached number one on the Australian charts in 1983. In 2005 a hip hop version of the song was produced by The Herd.
• Other songs titled 19:
  • "Nineteen" by Bad4good
  • "Nineteen" by Buck-O-Nine
  • "Nineteen" by Phil Lynott
  • "Nineteen" by the Old 97's
  • "Nineteen" by Tegan and Sara
  • "Nineteen" by Phil Lynott
  • "19" by Dogs (French band)

• Nineteen has been used as an alternative to twelve for a division of the octave into equal parts. This idea goes back to Salinas in the sixteenth century, and is interesting in part because it gives a system of meantone tuning, being close to 1/3 comma meantone. See 19 equal temperament.

• Some organs use the 19th harmonic to approximate a minor third.