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The cuckoo has traditionally been associated with sexual incontinence and infidelity. [9] An old name for the cuckoo was "cuckold's chorister", [10] and old broadsides played on the idea that the cuckoo's call was a reproach to husbands whose wives were unfaithful: The smith that on his anvill the iron hard doth ding:
"Sumer is icumen in" is the incipit of a medieval English round or rota of the mid-13th century; it is also known variously as the Summer Canon and the Cuckoo Song. The line translates approximately to "Summer has come" or "Summer has arrived". [2] The song is written in the Wessex dialect of Middle English.
Der Kuckuck und der Esel (The cuckoo and the donkey) is a well known old German children's song from the early 19th century. Its text was written by Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1835, the melody had already been composed by Carl Friedrich Zelter in 1810. The song is about a singing contest between a cuckoo and a donkey.
Friday Afternoons is a collection of twelve song settings by Benjamin Britten, composed 1933–35 for the pupils of Clive House School, Prestatyn, Wales where his brother, Robert, was headmaster. [1] Two of the songs, "Cuckoo" and "Old Abram Brown", were featured in the film Moonrise Kingdom . [ 2 ] "
Stickney's poem "Song" (which describes the earth ebullient in late spring, and the cuckoo singing "not yet") is plagiarized in the Robert De Niro 2006 film The Good Shepherd by a Yale professor of English, acted by Michael Gambon as Dr. Fredericks, in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by Matt Damon.
Its lyrics use the changing nature of the seasons as a metaphor for a girl's changing moods. The inspiration for the song was a girl that Simon met and the nursery rhyme she used to recite, "Cuckoo". [2] James Hardy lists regional variations to this folk rhyme about the Cuckoo - and the one closest to the lyrics is from Hampshire: In April ...
Orchestral score: opening bars Song of the common cuckoo. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is a tone poem composed in 1912 by Frederick Delius. Together with Summer Night on the River it is one of Delius's Two Pieces for Small Orchestra. The two were first performed in Leipzig on 23 October 1913, conducted by Arthur Nikisch.
In poetry can be quoted both two poems and two poetry books with the title "The Cuckoo Clock", which were authored, the first one by the major English poet William Wordsworth [11] between 1836 and 1842, first published in "Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years" (1842), [12] the second one by the American writer and publisher John C. Farrar ...