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Song Album Musical artist Literary work Author Comments Citations "7th Step" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One: Deborah Pardes: Angela's Ashes: Frank McCourt [29] "40" War: U2: The 40th Psalm of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament [30] "1984" Diamond Dogs: David Bowie: Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell
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.
Irving Berlin would likewise often write songs in the genre; notable examples include "My Beautiful Rhinestone Girl" from Face the Music (1932), a list song that starts off with a sequence of negative similes, [33] "Outside of That I Love You" from Louisiana Purchase, [34] and "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)" a challenge-duet, and Berlin ...
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Before The Tortured Poets Department was ever a glimmer in Taylor Swift’s eye, the singer peppered her music with references to classic literature. As early as 2006 ...
For narrative or evocative popular music, please see Concept Album. Any discussion of program music brings to mind Walt Disney's animated features Fantasia (1940) and Fantasia 2000 (1999), in which the Disney animators provided graphic visualisation of several famous pieces of program music. However, not all the pieces used in the films were ...
Temporal Locations. Four Counting Crows songs mention months of the year. Those months are November (twice), December (twice), and February. A lot of cold months, in the world of Counting Crows.
Folk songs are more or less in the public domain by definition, though there are many folk song entertainers who publish and record copyrighted original material. This tradition led also to the singer-songwriter style of performing, where an artist has written confessional poetry or personal statements and sings them set to music, most often ...
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is an example of epic fantasy, [20] though the genre is not limited to the Western tradition, for example: Arabic epic literature includes One Thousand and One Nights; [21] and Indian epic poetry includes Ramayana and Mahabharata.