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Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits song) " Romeo and Juliet " is a rock [1][4][5] song by the British rock band Dire Straits, written by frontman Mark Knopfler. It first appeared on the 1980 album Making Movies and was released as a single in 1981. [6] The song subsequently appeared on the Dire Straits live albums Alchemy and On the Night, and ...
Love Theme from. Romeo and Juliet. " Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet ", also known as " A Time for Us ", is an instrumental arranged by Henry Mancini (from Nino Rota 's music written for Franco Zeffirelli 's film of Romeo and Juliet, starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). [3]
Romeo and Juliet, TH 42, ČW 39, is an orchestral work composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is styled an Overture-Fantasy, and is based on Shakespeare 's play of the same name. Like other composers such as Berlioz and Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky was deeply inspired by Shakespeare and wrote works based on The Tempest and Hamlet as well.
The opus Six Romances was composed in 1878 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) for voice and piano, and was published as Opus 38 later that year. Of these six songs, "Don Juan's Serenade" was the most successful, becoming one of the best-known works among the approximately 100 romances that Tchaikovsky composed during his lifetime.
The lyrics of "Love Story" narrate a troubled romance between two characters, drawing from the lead characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. [28] According to the psychologist Katie Barclay, the song explores feelings of love in the contexts of pain and joy. [29] "Love Story", save for the final refrain, is narrated from Juliet's perspective.
5. “Fly Me to The Moon” by Frank Sinatra (1964) The opening lines, “Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars, let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars…” is enough to get ...
Kissing You (Des'ree song) " Kissing You " (or " I'm Kissing You ") is a song by British singer Des'ree. It was written by the singer with Timothy Atack for Baz Luhrmann 's 1996 film Romeo + Juliet. The song was included on the film's soundtrack album and Des'ree's third studio album, Supernatural (1998). A pop ballad set in the key of A minor ...
The fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet remains one of Tchaikovsky's best known works and its love theme among his most successful melodies. The piece, however, is actually one of three he wrote after works by Shakespeare. The Tempest, while not as successful overall as Romeo, contains a love theme that is extremely effective. [47]