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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2008. It was updated and released in paperback by Plume in 2009 and translated into six languages.
The Six Songs, Op. 50, [a] is a collection of German-language art songs for vocal soloist and piano written in 1906 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. " Die stille Stadt " ("The Silent City") generally is considered the best of the set.
Between 1935 and 1939, they were published in six volumes as Essays in Musical Analysis. Each volume focused on a certain genre of orchestral or choral music (for example, Volumes I and II were devoted to Symphonies; Volume III to Concertos), with many of the works discussed with the help of music examples.
Six (stylised in all caps) is a British musical comedy in the style of a pop concert. Its music, book, and lyrics were written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss . [ 1 ] It is a modern retelling of the lives of the six wives of Henry VIII , presented in the form of a singing competition.
Dominick Argento (October 27, 1927 – February 20, 2019) [2] was an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music.Among his best known pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels, and The Aspern Papers.
Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (1911) by George Butterworth; 6 Songs for Bruce, a 1985 demo cassette by Soundgarden; Six Songs with Mike Singing, a 1985 EP from Eye for an Eye (Corrosion of Conformity album) Six Songs of Hellcity Trendkill, a 2002 EP by Private Line; Seis canciones españolas (1939), by Matilde Salvador i Segarra
Parry died on 7 October 1918 and one of the pieces from Songs of Farewell, "There is an old belief", was sung at the composer's funeral in St Paul's Cathedral. [6] The first performance of the complete set of six songs was at a memorial service to Parry held in the chapel of Exeter College, Oxford on 23 February 1919, four months after his ...
Charles Wilfred Orr, who made 24 Housman settings, united some in cycles of two (1921–1922), seven (1934) and three songs (1940). [26] Lennox Berkeley's 5 Housman Songs (Op.14/3, 1940) also dates from the start of World War II. Another cycle composed since then has been the five in Mervyn Horder's A Shropshire Lad (1980).