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"I Contain Multitudes" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, the opening track on his 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020). It was released as the album's second single on April 17, 2020, through Columbia Records. [2] [3] The title of the song is taken from Section 51 of the poem "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman. [4]
Holopainen has called one song the "epic song of the album", "Song of Myself", which is almost as long as Dark Passion Play's "The Poet and the Pendulum" at 13 minutes. It is divided into four parts and especially influenced by poet Walt Whitman. [42] One acoustic piece is also called "a Moominvalley Christmas Carol".
In the second (1856) edition, Whitman used the title "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American," which was shortened to "Walt Whitman" for the third (1860) edition. [1] The poem was divided into fifty-two numbered sections for the fourth (1867) edition and finally took on the title "Song of Myself" in the last edition (1891–2). [1]
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd: A Requiem for those we love (An American Requiem) [1] is a 1946 oratorio by composer Paul Hindemith, based on the poem of the same name by Walt Whitman. It is the first musical work to include the entirety of Whitman's 1865 poem. [2]
Beat! Beat! Drums!, is based on the first Whitman poem. The text describes the drums and bugles of war bursting through doors and windows, disrupting the peaceful lives of church congregations, scholars, bridal couples, and other civilians. Reconciliation, uses the entire second Whitman poem. The baritone soloist introduces the first half of ...
Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song (October 16, 1942) is a cantata for chorus and orchestra by William Schuman, using text by Walt Whitman, that was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1943, [1] after it was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (with the amateur Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus [2]) under Serge Koussevitzky. [3]
Pages in category "Musical settings of poems by Walt Whitman" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
" Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse" Leaves of Grass (Book V. Calamus) 1860 Song at Sunset " Splendor of ended day floating and filling me," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIII. Songs of Parting) Song for All Seas, All Ships " To-day a rude brief recitative," Leaves of Grass (Book XIX. Sea-Drift) Song of Myself