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Cosmo Sheldrake adapted two songs of Blake's: "The Fly" into a song of the same name, and "I Rose Up At The Dawn Of Day" into the song "Solar". "And did those feet in ancient time" set to music by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916 and best known today as the anthem "Jerusalem." There have been many recordings, most notably by:
The Lochamer-Liederbuch (Lochamer Song Book or Locham Song Book) is an extensive collection of German songs at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It dates from the mid-15th century and is regarded as one of the most important surviving collections of music from fifteenth-century Germany.
The collection of love, soldiers, wandering, and children's songs was an important source of idealized folklore in the Romantic nationalism of the 19th century. Des Knaben Wunderhorn became widely popular across the German-speaking world; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , one of the most influential writers of the time, declared that Des Knaben ...
Winterreise was composed in two parts, each with twelve songs, the first part in February 1827 and the second in October 1827. [1] The two parts were also published separately by Tobias Haslinger, the first on 14 January 1828, and the second (the proofs of which Schubert was still correcting days before his death on 19 November) on 30 December 1828.
Volkslied (literally: folk song) is a genre of popular songs in German which are traditionally sung. While many of them were first passed orally, several collections were published from the late 18th century. Later, some popular songs were also included in this classification. [1]
This was a collection of already published poems. No one expected it to become one of the most popular books of German verse ever published, and sales were slow to start with, picking up when composers began setting Heine's poems as Lieder. [23] For example, the poem "Allnächtlich im Traume" was set to music by Robert Schumann and Felix ...
An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1: Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time: Michael Moorcock: Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy. The Black Halo: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Black Halo is a concept album based on Faust, Part Two.
The reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnodist, regarded music and especially hymns in German as important means for the development of faith.. Luther wrote songs for occasions of the liturgical year (Advent, Christmas, Purification, Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost, Trinity), hymns on topics of the catechism (Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer, creed, baptism, confession, Eucharist), paraphrases of ...