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The song was performed by Sherwood in their album The Favourite Songs of Henry VIII. Laura Wright recorded a version, featured on her album The Last Rose (2011). George Eliot refers to this song in her novel The Mill on the Floss, Book 6, Chapter 13, as being sung by character Stephen Guest.
"Cecilia" is a song by American musical duo Simon & Garfunkel. It was released in April 1970 as the third single from the duo's fifth and final studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970). Written by Paul Simon , the song's origins lie in a late-night party, in which the duo and friends began banging on a piano bench .
Celia Cruz in Havana, 1957 "Quimbara" is a song performed by Cuban recording artist Celia Cruz and Dominican recording artist Johnny Pacheco.The song written by 20 year old Junior Cepeda from Puerto Rico, was released as the lead single from Cruz and Pacheco's joint studio album Celia & Johnny (1974).
Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27 is a choral piece by Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), a setting of a poem by W. H. Auden written between 1940 and 1942. Auden's original title was "Three Songs for St. Cecilia's Day", and he later published the poem as "Anthem for St. Cecilia’s Day (for Benjamin Britten)".
The story of Amintor and Celia provides the narrative core for a number of restoration poems and songs, though the outcome of the story varies. A shorter version of the poem first appeared in Thomas Duffet's New Poems, Songs, Prologues and Epilogues, under the title Song to the Irish Tune. [2]
"Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)", which is a pop song, is an adaptation of Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 hit song "Cecilia", with interpolated sampling occurring throughout the song. The verse lyrics do not follow those of the original song, though they still heavily rely on the main chorus (Cecilia, you're breaking my heart / You're shaking my ...
Celia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, as well as a nickname for Cecilia, Cecelia, Celeste, or Celestina. The name is often derived from the Roman family name Caelius , thought to originate in the Latin caelum ("heaven").
John Tenniel, St. Cecilia (1850) illustrating Dryden's ode, in the Parliament Poets' Hall "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687) is the first of two odes written by the English Poet Laureate John Dryden for the annual festival of Saint Cecilia's Day observed in London every 22 November from 1683 to 1703.