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  2. Art song - Wikipedia

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    An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition. By extension, the term "art song" is used to refer to the collective genre of such songs (e.g., the "art song repertoire"). [ 1 ]

  3. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of some poems that have been subsequently set to music.In the classical music tradition, this type of setting may be referred to as an art song.A poem set to music in the German language is called a lied, or in the French language, a Mélodie.

  4. Western canon - Wikipedia

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    The Great Books of the Western World in 60 volumes. A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement begun in the United States in the 1920s by John Erskine of Columbia University, which proposed to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning.

  5. Lied - Wikipedia

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    ' song ') [1] [2] [3] is a term for setting poetry to classical music. [4] The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German and Dutch, but among English and French speakers, lied is often used interchangeably with "art song" to encompass works that the tradition has inspired in other languages as well. The poems that have been made ...

  6. List of compositions by Aaron Copland - Wikipedia

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    The Boatmen's Dance (minstrel song from 1843) The Dodger (campaign song) Long Time Ago (ballad) Simple Gifts (Shaker song) I Bought Me a Cat (children's song) Old American Songs Second set for voice and piano (also adapted for voice and orchestra) (1952) The Little Horses (lullaby) Zion’s Walls (revivalist song)

  7. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1: Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time: Michael Moorcock: Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy. The Black Halo: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Black Halo is a concept album based on Faust, Part Two.

  8. American art song - Wikipedia

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    American art song composition continues to be lively and strong in the early 21st century. Commissions from well-known singers have added a number of new works to the repertoire, and composers such as Tom Cipullo , Ricky Ian Gordon , Daron Hagen , Jake Heggie , Lori Laitman and John Musto are establishing themselves as the current generation of ...

  9. Art music - Wikipedia

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    In Western literature, "Art music" is mostly used to refer to music descending from the tradition of Western classical music.Musicologist Philip Tagg refers to the elitism associated with art music as one of an "axiomatic triangle consisting of 'folk', 'art' and 'popular' musics". [5]