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Composer Kurt Weill "My Ship" is a popular song written for the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The music is marked "Andante espressivo"; Gershwin describes it as "orchestrated by Kurt to sound sweet and simple at times, mysterious and menacing at other".
In the show, it is first sung as a duet by the characters Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome riverboat gambler, and the teenage Magnolia Hawks, an aspiring performer and daughter of the show boat captain, soon after their meeting in Act I. It reveals that they are smitten with each other almost immediately upon meeting and sets the tone for the ...
Musical quotation is to be distinguished from variation, where a composer takes a theme (their own or another's) and writes variations on it.In that case, the origin of the theme is usually acknowledged in the title (e.g., Johannes Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn).
A dark and stormy night in Glacier National Park, Montana "It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", [1] also known as purple prose.
Approaches or techniques to musical analysis. Assumption and advocating could be considered missing. Musical analysis is the study of musical structure in either compositions or performances. [1] According to music theorist Ian Bent, music analysis "is the means of answering directly the question 'How does it work?'". [2]
Sham Rock are a pseudo-folk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, known solely for their 1998 single, "Tell Me Ma" (a pop version of 19th century children's song "I'll Tell Me Ma").
"Boat" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was released on 21 April 2023 through Asylum and Atlantic Records as the second single from his fifth studio album, − ("Subtract"). Sheeran wrote the song with producer Aaron Dessner .
The sonnet was set to music by Benjamin Britten as the last song of his eight-song cycle Nocturne Op. 60 (1958) for tenor, 7 obbligato instruments (flute, clarinet, cor anglais, bassoon, French horn, timpani, harp) and strings. In 1990 Dutch composer Jurriaan Andriessen set the poem to a mixed chamber choir setting.