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Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
The rhyming songs, poems and tales written in the form of ballads often relate to the itinerant and rebellious spirit of Australia in The Bush, and the authors and performers are often referred to as bush bards. [38] The 19th century was the golden age of bush ballads.
Performance poetry is not solely a postmodern phenomenon. It began with the performance of oral poems in pre-literate societies. By definition, these poems were transmitted orally from performer to performer and were constructed using devices such as repetition, alliteration, rhyme and kennings to facilitate memorization and recall.
"Oranges and Lemons" was the title of a square dance, published from the third (1657) edition onwards of The Dancing Master. [9] Similar rhymes naming churches and giving rhymes to their names can be found in other parts of England, including Shropshire and Derby, where they were sung on festival days on which bells would also have been rung. [1]
The Complete Poems of Robert W. Service (New York: Dodd Mead, 1933) Rhyme and Romance: a Robert Service anthology (London: E. Benn, 1949) Later Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954, 55, 65) Collected Poems of Robert Service (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954) More Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1955) Songs of the High North (London: E ...
T. Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song)
Engaging poems (and taking part in the arts generally) has practical benefit at a wider community level: A critical study by the National Endowment for the Arts found that people with longitudinal ...
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.