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They incorporated traditional themes: the deceased is praised, his exploits remembered, vengeance threatened on his enemies, and he himself called back to life. [3] All these themes are to be found in the Caoineadh. The greater part of the Caoineadh was composed by Eibhlín Dubh, with contributions from Art's father and sister.
The poem is a dream vision; the first line reads "I wander all night in my vision". [6] At the beginning of the poem, the narrator is described as "Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory". In the dream, they travel to various places, visiting people as they are asleep.
In 1990 Dutch composer Jurriaan Andriessen set the poem to a mixed chamber choir setting. Rufus Wainwright's "Sonnet 43", the sixth track on his album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010), is a musical setting of the sonnet. In 2004 Flemish composer Ludo Claesen set this poem to a setting for chamber music (flute, piano and soprano-solo).
"A Child Asleep" is a song, with lyrics from a poem written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.It was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in December 1909 and published in 1910 by Novello. [1]
Most of these ten recitations are known by the scholars and people who have received them, and their number is due to their spreading in the Islamic world. [5] [6]However, the general population of Muslims dispersed in most countries of the Islamic world, their number estimated in the millions, read Hafs's narration on the authority of Aasim, which is more simply known as the Hafs' an Aasim ...
As poetry is a vocal art, the speaker brings their own experience to it, changing it according to their own sensibilities, [3] intonation, the matter of sound making sense; controlled through pitch and stress, poems are full of invisible italicized contrasts. [2] Reading poetry aloud also makes clear the "pause" as an element of poetry. [4]
Her lone personal piper – whose time playing the bagpipes outside her window each morning to wake her is at an end – performed the traditional sweetly titled lament Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Show ...
In popular music, especially country music, a recitation song or "recitation" as it is more commonly called, is a spoken narrative of a song, generally with a sentimental (or at times, religious) theme. Such numbers were quite popular from the 1930s into the 1960s, although there were only few in number.