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Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One: Justin Wells: The Odyssey: Homer [29] "Lay Down" Bursting at the Seams: Strawbs: The 23rd Psalm of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament [132] "The Legend of Enoch Arden" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One: Diane Zeigler "The Legend of Enoch Arden" Alfred Lord ...
Many character pieces have titles based on literature (Schumann's Kreisleriana, 1838) or personal experiences (Schumann's Kinderszenen, 1838). [1] Other character pieces have titles suggesting brevity and singularity of concept, such as Beethoven's Bagatelles , or Debussy's Préludes , or casual construction: the title Impromptu is common.
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel. The Danse Macabre (/ d ɑː n s m ə ˈ k ɑː b (r ə)/; French pronunciation: [dɑ̃s ma.kabʁ]), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. It does not include phrases altered for parody.
Published in the same year as Edmund White's Nocturnes for the King of Naples and Larry Kramer's Faggots, Dancer from the Dance is regarded as a major contribution to post-Stonewall gay male literature and it enjoyed a cult status in the gay community for a certain period of time.
From about 1900, the term género ínfimo ("degraded" or "low genre") was coined to describe an emerging form of entertainment allied to the revista type of musical comedy: these were musical works similar to the género chico zarzuela but lighter and bolder in their social criticism, [5] with scenes portraying sexual themes and many verbal ...
The following works are some of the most universally respected and established cornerstones of the band repertoire. All have "stood the test of time" through decades of regular performance, and many, either through an innovative use of the medium or by the fame of their composer, helped establish the wind band as a legitimate, serious performing ensemble.
Dance on My Grave is a 1982 young adult novel by British author Aidan Chambers. Its full title is Dance on My Grave: a life and a death in four parts, one hundred and seventeen bits, six running reports and two press clippings, with a few jokes, a puzzle or three, some footnotes and a fiasco now and then to help the story along .