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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    "The Song of a Wandering Aengus" is set to music by Caroline Herring. '5 Songs on Poems by W.B.Yeats' composed by Dutch composer Carolien Devilee (A Faery Song, He wishes for the clothes of heaven, The lake isle of Innisfree, To his heart, bidding it have no fear & The everlasting voices)

  3. Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson - Wikipedia

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    He assigned the first line of each poem as the song title, since Emily Dickinson had not written a title for any of the pieces. The exception is "The Chariot," which was Dickinson's original published title. Each song is dedicated to a composer friend. The sequence, with dedicatees, is: Nature, the Gentlest Mother (David Diamond)

  4. Category:Classical song cycles in English - Wikipedia

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    Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad; The Song and The Slogan; Song cycles (Waterhouse) A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table; Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra; Songs and Proverbs of William Blake; Songs from the Chinese; Songs of a Wayfarer; Songs of the Fleet; Songs of the Sea (Stanford) Songs of Travel; Songs Sacred ...

  5. Songs of the Sea (Stanford) - Wikipedia

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    Songs of the Sea is a cycle of five songs for baritone, male voice chorus, and orchestra, to poems by Henry Newbolt. It was composed by Charles Villiers Stanford , was premiered at the 1904 Leeds Festival , and was published as his Op. 91.

  6. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    The 40th Psalm of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament [30] "1984" Diamond Dogs: David Bowie: Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell: 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 ...

  7. Ten Blake Songs - Wikipedia

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    The first nine songs are from Songs of Innocence and of Experience by the English poet and visionary William Blake (1757–1827); the tenth (Eternity) is from Several Questions Answered (No1 & No2) from the poet's notebook . The cycle is dedicated to the tenor Wilfred Brown and the oboist Janet Craxton.

  8. List of compositions by Gerald Finzi - Wikipedia

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    A cycle of six songs scored for baritone soloist and string quartet; Setting of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy; songs: 1. "Paying Call"; 2. "Where the Picnic Was"; 3. "The Oxen"; 4. "The Master and the Leaves"; 5. "Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard"; 6. "Exeunt Omnes" -

  9. Lied - Wikipedia

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    ' song ') [1] [2] [3] is a term for setting poetry to classical music. [4] The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German and Dutch, but among English and French speakers, lied is often used interchangeably with "art song" to encompass works that the tradition has inspired in other languages as well. The poems that have been made ...