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Song poems are songs with lyrics by usually non-professional writers that have been set to music by commercial companies for a fee. This practice, which has long been disparaged in the established music industry, was also known as song sharking and was conducted by several businesses throughout the 20th century in North America .
Pasar malam is a Malay word that literally means "night market" (the word pasar comes from bazaar in Persian [1] [2]). A pasar malam is a street market in Indonesia , Malaysia , Brunei and Singapore that opens in the evening, usually in residential neighbourhoods. [ 3 ]
Ibu Pertiwi is a popular theme in Indonesian patriotic songs and poems and was mentioned in several of them, such as the song "Ibu Pertiwi" and "Indonesia Pusaka" . In the national anthem "Indonesia Raya" the lyrics "Jadi pandu ibuku" ("Become the scout/guide for my mother") is a reference to Ibu Pertiwi as the mother of Indonesian people.
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
Song poetry is poetry typical of the Song dynasty of China, established by the Zhao family in China in 960 and lasted until 1279. Many of the best known Classical Chinese poems, popular also in translation, are from the Song dynasty poets, such as Su Shi (Dongpo), Ouyang Xiu, Lu You and Yang Wanli. This was also a time of great achievement in ...
"Perjuangan Yang Belum Selesai" - poem songs by Nora "Malaysia Boleh!" "Kami Anak Malaysia" aka "Proud To Be Malaysian" - both Malay and English version "Untukmu Malaysia "For You Malaysia" "Mulanya Di Sini" ("It All Starts Here") - by Freedom "Here in My Home" - by Malaysian Artists for Unity (MAFU), May 2008.
The measuring unit of seas is known as "taf‘īlah," and every sea contains a certain number of taf'ilas which the poet has to observe in every verse of the poem. The measuring procedure of a poem is very rigorous. Sometimes adding or removing a consonant or a vowel can shift the bayt from one meter to another.
A Russian version of the poem, Pyl' (Russian: Пыль, Dust), was set to music by Soviet bard Evgeny Agranovich during the Second World War, and used as a marching song in his unit. The unit's commissar enjoyed the song, but disapproved of the foreign lyrics. Because of this, Agranovich later added several verses of his own invention to the march.