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  2. List of songs that retell a work of literature - Wikipedia

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    One of several songs that Bowie wrote about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four; Bowie had also hoped to produce a televised musical based on the book. [31] "2112" 2112: Rush: Anthem: Ayn Rand: Song shares themes with the novel, such that Neil Peart recognized Rand in the album's liner notes. [32] "Abigail" Creatures: Motionless in White: The ...

  3. Outline of books - Wikipedia

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    Scroll – a precursor to the book which is a roll of papyrus, parchment or paper containing writing; Song book or Chansonnier – a book containing lyrics and notes for songs Choirbook – a large format song book; Table-book – printed book which is arranged so that all the parts of a piece of music can be read from it while seated around a ...

  4. Outline of literature - Wikipedia

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    Literature can be described as all of the following: Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.

  5. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    An example of a "bonus material" style inner story is the chapter "The Town Ho's Story" in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick; that chapter tells a fully formed story of an exciting mutiny and contains many plot ideas that Melville had conceived during the early stages of writing Moby-Dick—ideas originally intended to be used later in the ...

  6. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle's proscriptive analysis of tragedy, for example, as expressed in his Rhetoric and Poetics, saw it as having 6 parts (music, diction, plot, character, thought, and spectacle) working together in particular ways. Thus, Aristotle established one of the earliest delineations of the elements that define genre.

  7. List of concert band literature - Wikipedia

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    Diptych for Brass Quintet and Concert Band (1964) Meditation (1963) On Winged Flight (1989) Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16 (1950) Symphony No. 3 In Praise of Winds (1981) Joseph Schwantner From a Dark Millennium (1981) John P. Sousa The Thunderer (1889) High School Cadets (1890) The Fairest of the Fair (1908) The Pathfinder of Panama ...

  8. The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Wikipedia

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    The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by English author Charles Dickens, [1] [2] originally published in 1870.. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who lusts after his pupil, Rosa Bud.

  9. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life - Wikipedia

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    Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson that serves as the beginning of Patterson's Middle School series. [1] Published in the United States by Little, Brown and Company on June 27, 2011, the book follows sixth grader Rafe Khatchadorian as he begins middle school and copes with the awkwardness of adolescence, "crushes, bullying, family issues ...