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The central melody of "Simple Gifts" is used in the 2009 song The Sound Above My Hair by German electronic music group Scooter, which utilises bagpipes in the composition. The 2008 song "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" by Weezer makes extensive use of the "Simple Gifts" melody throughout.
The song bears a resemblance to the Shaker song "Simple Gifts" hence the "(Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" in the title. According to lead vocalist and writer Rivers Cuomo , "The Greatest Man" has 11 different themes, including rapping and imitations of other bands such as Nirvana and Aerosmith (both of whom also recorded for Weezer's then-label ...
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" is a track that includes piano, police sirens, rapped vocals and Cuomo singing in falsetto. [26] Bassist Scott Shriner was particularly proud of the song saying, "The song 'The Greatest Man That Ever Lived' is a masterpiece that includes ten different styles of music based around a ...
The five variations on the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts," for which the score is best known, helped put Thile’s “Little Birdie” return to simplicity ethos in perspective.
Inspired by a French Christmas carol of the mid 1800s and set to the tune of the ancient hymn “Gloria,” this song is a glorious musical celebration of the birth of Christ.
Simple Gifts (Shaker song) I Bought Me a Cat (children's song) Old American Songs Second set for voice and piano (also adapted for voice and orchestra) (1952) The Little Horses (lullaby) Zion’s Walls (revivalist song) The Golden Willow Tree (Anglo-American ballad) At the River (hymn tune) Ching-A-Ring Chaw (minstrel song)
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) L. ... Old American Songs This page was last edited on 17 April 2020, at 00:41 (UTC). Text ...
Johann Sebastian Bach in 1746, holding his canon triplex a 6 voci, BWV 1076.Oil painting by Elias Gottlob Haussmann.. The Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" ("From Heaven above to Earth I come"), BWV 769, are a set of five variations in canon for organ with two manuals and pedals by Johann Sebastian Bach on the Christmas hymn by Martin Luther of the same name.