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The Hounds of Spring is a concert overture for concert band, written by the American composer Alfred Reed in 1980. [1] Reed was inspired by the poem Atalanta in Calydon [2] (1865) by Victorian era English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, a recreation in modern English verse of an ancient Greek tragedy. According to Reed himself, the poem's ...
Titlepage to 1645 Poems, with frontispiece depicting Milton surrounded by four muses, designed by William Marshall. Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas.
Pervigilium Veneris (or The Vigil of Venus) is a Latin poem of uncertain date, variously assigned to the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries. It is sometimes thought to have been by the poet Tiberianus , because of strong similarities with his poem Amnis ibat , though other scholars attribute it to Publius Annius Florus , and yet others find no ...
In 1938, he expanded it into a full-scale orchestral work for 27 wind instruments (woodwinds and brass), 14 percussion instruments, and strings. As one advertising blurb for the score describes it: The work begins with a slow trill in the bass clarinet as the percussion plays the sinuous, syncopated rhythm that drives the work.
The poem begins with three sections describing the wind's effects upon earth, air, and ocean. In the last two sections, the poet speaks directly to the wind, asking for its power, to lift him up and make him its companion in its wanderings. The poem ends with an optimistic note which is that if winter days are here then spring is not very far.
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"The Wind" is cast in a form closely associated with Dafydd, the poem in which a messenger or llatai, usually a bird or animal, is sent to the poet's lover. [17] It is a good example of how Dafydd's works in this form can include a close and warmly-appreciative description of a llatai , even when, as is often the case in Dafydd's poems, he is ...
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