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  2. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Song Album Musical artist Literary work Author Comments Citations "7th Step" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One: Deborah Pardes: Angela's Ashes: Frank McCourt [29] "40" War: U2: The 40th Psalm of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament [30] "1984" Diamond Dogs: David Bowie: Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell

  3. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    "Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.

  4. Art song - Wikipedia

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    The composer's musical language and interpretation of the text often dictate the formal design of an art song. If all of the poem's verses are sung to the same music, the song is strophic . Arrangements of folk songs are often strophic, [ 1 ] and "there are exceptional cases in which the musical repetition provides dramatic irony for the ...

  5. SongMeanings - Wikipedia

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    From the website, she chose the discussion on The Beatles's song, "I Am the Walrus", as an example, due to its cryptic lyrics. Barton quoted one of the comments from the website, which considered the song as a "philosophy of life", and that it was a song that was a prime example of one that "threw into disarray the import placed upon lyrics".

  6. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    These three are not equivalent, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode and Ancient Greek lyric poetry was principally chanted verse. [a] [2] The term owes its importance in literary theory to the division developed by Aristotle among three broad categories of poetry: lyrical, dramatic, and epic. Lyric poetry is one of the earliest forms ...

  7. Aesthetic interpretation - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of art, an interpretation is an explanation of the meaning of a work of art. [ a ] An aesthetic interpretation expresses a particular emotional or experiential understanding most often used in reference to a poem or piece of literature, and may also apply to a work of visual art or performance.

  8. File:The interpretation of literature (IA ...

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    Size of this JPG preview of this PDF file: ... Literature; Literature; English literature. Language: English: ... The interpretation of literature: Author: Crawshaw ...

  9. English art song - Wikipedia

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    As Italian opera composition developed in the later 17th century, recitative and aria began to split apart as separate parts of solo vocal music. Four types of vocal music began to blossom in the 18th century: church music, early oratorio (esp. with Carissimi in Italy), opera, and the secular (or "chamber") cantata.