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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.
Pages in category "Songs based on poems" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Summer Music (1917, orch. 1921, r. 1932) The Happy Forest (1922) The Tale the Pine Trees Knew (1931) ... Lyric poem "To the Memory of Gliere", Op. 66 (1964) Edward ...
Rodney Marvin McKuen (/ m ə ˈ k j uː ə n / mə-KEW-ən; né Woolever; April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer.He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s.
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.
All the Way My Savior Leads Me"—1875, music by Robert Lowry [15] "Blessed Assurance"—1873, music by Phoebe Knapp [16] "The Bright Forever"—1871, music by Hubert P. Main [17] "Close to Thee"—1874, music by Silas J. Vail [18] "Eye Hath Not Seen"—1890, music by George C. Stebbins [19] "He Hideth My Soul"—1890, music by William J ...
2. Eddie Van Halen. The guitar virtuoso of Van Halen fame couldn’t read music, which is kind of crazy considering all the classical runs and flourishes that turn up regularly in his playing.
Burns sent the poem anonymously in 1795 to the Glasgow Magazine. He was also a radical for reform and wrote poems for democracy, such as – "Parcel of Rogues to the Nation" and the "Rights of Women". Many of Burns's most famous poems are songs with the music based upon older traditional songs.