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I have had enough of being ignored and today I am going to play God." [2] The individual in the poem feels undervalued and gradually progresses into insanity by experimenting progressively with violence beginning with killing a fly and a goldfish before terrifying a budgie and going outside armed with a bread knife; the last line of the poem is ...
Old Poem for voice (1920) The Cat and the Mouse for piano (1920) Pastorale for voice (1921) Honkytonk Blues (1921) Three Moods for piano (1921) Four Motets for mixed voices (1921) Help us, O Lord; Sing ye Praises to our King; Have Mercy on us, O My Lord; Thou, O Jehovah, Abideth Forever; Piano Sonata (No. 1) in G Major (1921) Petit Portrait for ...
"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.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" [8] by American composer Steven Bryant, [9] an instrumental chorale inspired by the poem. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" [10] by American composer Stephen DeCesare, [11] a chorale set to the poem's lyrics. "Nothing Gold" [12] by American composer Alva Henderson, [13] a solo for baritone accompanied by piano.
The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "Poems for Piano is a superb recording, offering abundant evidence of both Marion Brown's deep and sensitive compositional gifts and Amina Claudine Myers' all-too-unrecognized strengths as a player and interpreter. Highly recommended".
"Word of God Speak" is a contemporary Christian song with a length of three minutes and seven seconds. [3] It is set in the key of C major and has a tempo of 69 beats per minute, with Millard's vocal range spanning from C 4-F 5. [3] The music to "Word of God Speak" is stripped down, featuring piano and vocals; a string track is also present. [1]
The poem was influenced by Thomas Moore's poem "While Gazing on the Moon's Light". [16] The poem was not included in Poe's second poetry collection, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, and was never re-printed during his lifetime. "Evening Star" was adapted by choral composer Jonathan Adams into his Three Songs from Edgar Allan Poe in 1993.
Felix Mendelssohn set it to music as the second of his "six songs for voice and piano" (Opus 34-2, 1834). [1] [2] Franz Liszt arranged On Wings of Music for solo piano (S. 547). His song has been translated into other languages and has been adopted in school music textbooks for China, Japan and Korea.