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Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical is an original musical written and produced in 1953 by Seventh Army Special Services in Germany, the first of the numerous stage musicals, film musicals and songs inspired in part by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan with its opening lines: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree
"Xanadu" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush from their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings. [1] It is approximately eleven minutes long, beginning with a five-minute-long instrumental section before transitioning to a narrative written by Neil Peart , which in turn was inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan .
More than 100 musical CDs have been created for the media franchise built around Eiichiro Oda's manga One Piece.Various theme songs and character songs were released on a total of 51 singles, many of them were also released in collected form on the 8 compilation albums or the 17 soundtrack CDs, along with background music from the anime television series, the feature films, and video games.
In Xanadu traces the path taken by Marco Polo from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the site of Shangdu, famed as Xanadu in English literature, in Inner Mongolia, China. The book begins with William Dalrymple taking a vial of holy oil from the burning lamps of the Holy Sepulchre , which he is to transport to Shangdu , the summer ...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
Xanadu may refer to: Shangdu , the summer capital of Yuan dynasty ruled by Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan. a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's description of Shangdu in his poem Kubla Khan
Xanadu is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the 1980 film of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth film Down to Earth. [1] The title refers to Xanadu, the site of the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan's summer palace.
(RI)Taking it back to the basics, the lyrics of the song are "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a pleasure dome decree"; that is almost exactly taking it from the poem, so logically Xanadu is the same thing as the place within the poem. —83.104.37.31 16:15, 14 October 2007 (UTC)