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Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893. The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" appeared as the lead track on the 1966 Simon & Garfunkel album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme in counterpoint with "Canticle", a reworking of the lyrics from Simon's 1963 anti-war song "The Side of a Hill". [23] The duo learned their arrangement of the song from Martin Carthy, but did not credit him as the arranger.
The text for Canticle I was taken from A Divine Rapture by Quarles, a paraphrase of sections from the Song of Songs from the Old Testament. It arrives several times at the refrain line "I my best beloved’s am – so he is mine". [4] As already the original biblical poetry, it is "full of beautiful, sensuous imagery". [4]
SATB jazz choir, piano; textless. Songs of Youth and Pleasure (1986) four movements SATB a cappella; Renaissance text. Canticle of the Sun (1987) SSAAA, finger cymbals, synthesizer, organ; text by St. Francis of Assisi. A Garden Wall (1987) unison choir, keyboard, Orff instruments, 7 speaking roles, and congregation. Refuge (1988)
The Song of Songs, based on Edward Sheldon's 1914 play; The Song of Songs, a German silent film; The Song of Songs, partially based on the Sheldon play, starring Marlene Dietrich and Brian Aherne; Song of Songs, starring Natalie Press and Joel Chalfen, directed by Josh Appignanesi; Song of Songs
Canticle II set text in English taken from an anonymous Chester Mystery Play. The work has been called a miniature opera, for the expressive music rendering the drama of the story. [3] Britten used two vocalists for three parts: Abraham is sung by the tenor, Isaac by the high voice, and both together in homophony form the voice of God. [3]
Song of Songs 4 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 4) is the fourth chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. [3]
Jellinek thinks [9] that there were several aggadic midrashim to Song of Songs, each of which interpreted the book differently, one referring it to the exodus from Egypt, another to the revelations on Mount Sinai, and a third to the Tabernacle or the Temple in Jerusalem; and that all these midrashim were then combined into one work, which (with various additions) forms the present Shir ha ...