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"Music, When Soft Voices Die" is a major poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1824 in London by John and Henry L. Hunt with a preface by Mary Shelley. [1] The poem is one of the most anthologised, influential, and well-known of Shelley's works. [2] [3]
The poem was also put to music by English folk singer and Kipling Society Fellow Peter Bellamy. German's setting was for baritone voice with piano accompaniment, and published by Cramer in 1911. Elgar set the poem to music late in World War I , with the permission of Kipling, and it was published in "The Teacher's World" , June 19, 1918.
Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies. [4] [5] [6] Sheet music industry also suffered of music piracy with pirated reprints, [7] [8] [9] as well various fake books rose considerable amount of copies sold. [5]
Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream , which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
Such shaped poetry was popular in Greek Alexandria during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE, although only the handful which were collected together in the Greek Anthology now survive. Examples include poems by Simmias of Rhodes in the shape of an egg, [2] wings [3] and a hatchet, [4] as well as Theocritus' pan-pipes. [5] The post-Classical revival ...
Likewise, gospel music was, in many ways, the predecessor to soul music, with the two types of music often sharing lyric structures, rhythms and melodies (from Heaven). Hip-hop isn’t immune to ...
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And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.