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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 ...
Maria Wiik, Ballad (1898) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.
The "Mauthausen Trilogy", also known as "The Ballad of Mauthausen" [3] and the "Mauthausen Cantata", [4] is a cycle of four arias with lyrics based on poems written by Greek poet Iakovos Kambanellis, a Mauthausen concentration camp survivor, and music written by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis.
In 19th century romantic music, a piano ballad (or 'ballade') is a genre of solo piano pieces [1] [2] written in a balletic narrative style, often with lyrical elements interspersed. Emerging in the Romantic era , it became a medium for composers to explore dramatic and expressive storytelling through complex, lyrical themes and virtuosic ...
Off the Loveblood CD, the song contains several verses from the poem in the chorus Donald Swann: The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cycle: song cycle 1991 Swann set certain parts of the Ballad, along with The Harlot's House and other texts by Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and John Clare: Arthur Wills: The Sacrifice of God: choral 1986
The Black Halo is a concept album based on Faust, Part Two. It is a follow-up to Epica, which was based on Faust, Part One. [1] Cacophony: Rudimentary Peni: Various works of H. P. Lovecraft: H. P. Lovecraft: All 30 tracks are related to Lovecraft or his work. [2] The Chronicle of the Black Sword: Hawkwind: Various works of Michael Moorcock ...
When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in the Beatles' "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969) or Billy Joel's "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" (1974), the folk music sense is generally implied. The term ballad is also sometimes applied to strophic story-songs more generally, such as Don McLean's "American Pie" (1971).
The strength of this ballad, its emotional force, lies in its unadorned narrative which progresses rapidly to a tragic end that has been foreshadowed almost from the beginning. It was first published in eleven stanzas in 1765 in Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, based on "two MS. copies transmitted from Scotland". [2]