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Cycle of Holy Songs (1951), for voice & piano; Flight for Heaven (1952), song-cycle for voice & piano; Four Dialogues (1953–1954), for soprano, tenor, & two pianos; Three Poems for Demetrios Capetanakis (1954), for voice & piano; Poèmes pour la paix (1953–1956), for medium voice & strings; Five Poems of Walt Whitman (1957), for voice & piano
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971) is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou.Many of the poems in Diiie were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
Sea Pictures. Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar. Many mezzo-sopranos have sung the piece. The songs are: [1]
Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was considered the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Frequently described as a neoromantic composer, he showed limited interest in the ...
Ossian ( / ˈɒʃən, ˈɒsiən /; Irish Gaelic / Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), [1] and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian. Macpherson claimed to have collected word-of-mouth ...
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
ISBN. 0-425-20560-6. Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics is a collection of poems and lyrics written by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It was first issued in the United States as a hardcover edition by G. P. Putnam's Sons, on November 4, 2004. Later in November 2005, it was issued in Canada and Europe in paperback format by ...
List of compositions by opus number. The most common method of numbering Finzi's works is by opus number as assigned by his publishers during his lifetime. [1] Songs: 1. "Rosy Maiden Winifred"; 2. "Dead in the Cold"; 3. "Lullaby, Oh Lullaby!"; 4.