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The Lagrime di San Pietro is probably the most famous set of madrigali spirituali ever written. Although sacred madrigals were a small subset of the total output of madrigals, this set by Lassus is often considered by scholars to be one of the highest achievements of Renaissance polyphony, and appeared at the end of an age: within 10 years of its composition, the traditional stile antico had ...
Peter is indifferent to such boasting, so Julius then goes into a lengthy explanation of his deeds and justifies his sins, ranging from simony to pederasty, with the fact that the pope has the authority to excuse any sin. Seeing that Julius is incapable of remorse, Peter drives him and his army away from Heaven.
W. B. Yeats, "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy: Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: The Far-Distant Oxus: Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum: A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway: George Peele, "A Farewell to Arms (To Queen Elizabeth)" Fear and Trembling ...
Melodeclamation (from Greek “melos” = song, and Latin “declamatio” = declamation) was a chiefly 19th century practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music. [1] It is also described as "a type of rhythmic vocal writing that bears a resemblance to Sprechstimme ."
The poem has the alternative title De balneis terrae laboris. The poem in thirty-five epigrams was written in the last decade of the twelfth century, probably in 1197. It is dedicated to the emperor ("Cesaris ad laudem"), probably Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor. The author "reports every detail about more than thirty different thermal sites in ...
Written in heroic couplets, the poems are arranged as a series of 24 letters, covering various aspects of borough life and detailing the stories of certain inhabitants' lives. Of the letters, the best known is that of Peter Grimes in Letter XXII, which formed the basis for Benjamin Britten's opera of the same name. Letter XXI describes Abel ...
Peter Pears has said: "Whereas the medievals for the most part dispensed with any harmonic implications, here the composer has suggested a strong harmonic skeleton behind the solo voice, to fine effect: in the last section the use of different registers of the voice vividly underlines Donne's wonderful text.
Peter Buchan (1917 – 12 December 1991) [1] was a Scottish poet and writer from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. He was most active from the mid-1940s until his death. He was most active from the mid-1940s until his death.