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  2. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1: Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time: Michael Moorcock: Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy. The Black Halo: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Black Halo is a concept album based on Faust, Part Two.

  3. List of silent musical compositions - Wikipedia

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    Some composers have discussed the significance of silence or a silent composition without ever composing such a work. In his 1907 manifesto, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, Ferruccio Busoni described its significance: [1] That which, within our present-day music, most nearly approaches the essential of the art, is the Rest and the Hold (Pause).

  4. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Richard Cory (song) - Wikipedia

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    The song was covered by Wings during their 1975–1976 Wings Over The World tour (available on the 1976 album Wings Over America). Denny Laine sang lead. In the version released on Wings Over America, during the first chorus line Laine (jokingly) substitutes John Denver's name for Richard Cory's, thus inciting a roar of laughter and applause from the audience.

  6. Word painting - Wikipedia

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    Word painting, also known as tone painting or text painting, is the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics or story elements in programmatic music. Historical development

  7. Silent Night - Wikipedia

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    1993: Enya No. 48 on the Australian Charts with an Irish language version of the song. [37] 2007–2008: Josh Groban No. 5 on the Norwegian Charts [38] and No. 19 on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart [39] 2008: Glasvegas No. 42 on the Swedish Charts [40] 2009: Mariah Carey No. 67 on the U.S. Billboard Digital Song Sales Chart [41]

  8. Song - Wikipedia

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    A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure to them, such as the common ABA form, and are usually made of sections

  9. Bagme Bloma - Wikipedia

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    The poem was published along with a collection of others in the rare privately-printed 1936 book Songs for the Philologists, unauthorised by either of the poems' authors, J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon. [2] It was reprinted, together with a Modern English translation by Rhona Beare, in Tom Shippey's The Road to Middle-earth. [3]