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A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku). Typically the poems included in single volume of poetry, or a cycle of poems, are linked by their style or thematic material.
The album Music Through Heartsongs is a collection of poetry by Mattie Stepanek, performed by Billy Gilman; John Denver performed "The Box" Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" has been recorded by Jean-Jacques Burnel; Max Dunn's poem "I Danced Before I had Two Feet" was turned into a song ("I Danced") by the band Violent Femmes
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Goethe and Schiller in front of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, where many of Liszt's symphonic poems premiered. [4]According to cultural historian Hannu Salmi, classical music began to gain public prominence in Western Europe in the latter 18th century through the establishment of concerts by musical societies in cities such as Leipzig and the subsequent press coverage ...
The Dire Straits songs makes use of certain aspects of Shakespeare's play, as well as elements of some of the play's stage and screen adaptations. It also purposely diverges from the play's plot and characterizations in certain respects (such as Juliet's reaction to being approached by Romeo). [179] "Rusty James" ¡Uno! Green Day: Rumble Fish ...
Lemminkäinen Suite (also known as Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op. 22 * [a cycle of four tone poems] Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) * The Swan of Tuonela (1893-1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *
The tone poems of Richard Strauss are noted as the high point of program music in the latter part of the 19th century, extending its boundaries and taking the concept of realism in music to an unprecedented level. In these works, he widened the expressive range of music while depicting subjects many times thought unsuitable for musical depiction.
The word yuefu came first into being in Qin dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC). Yue (樂) means "music", fu (府) means "bureau": put together yuefu means "Music Bureau".Yuefu is particularly associated with the Han poetry of the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), and became a royal government-managed music involving collecting, writing or performing folk songs and ballads in 112 BC.