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"Threnody for Sharon Tate", written by Freddie Hubbard and İlhan Mimaroğlu, from the 1971 album Sing Me a Song of Songmy "Lament for Booker", written by Horace Parlan in memory of Booker Ervin; In film and other music: "Threnody To Earth" by Dream Koala "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
The song occurs in the chalk-drawing outing animated sequence, just after Mary Poppins wins a horse race.Flush with her victory, she is immediately surrounded by reporters who pepper her with questions and suggest that she is at a loss for words.
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
The rhyme was the first audio recorded by Thomas Edison on his newly invented phonograph in 1877. [12] It was the first instance of recorded English verse, [12] following the recording of the French folk song "Au clair de la lune" by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860. In 1927, Edison reenacted the recording, which still survives. [13]
"Love and Death" Dream Harder: The Waterboys: Love and Death: William Butler Yeats [138] "Love and Destroy" Franz Ferdinand: The Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov [139] "Lucy" Liberation: The Divine Comedy: The Lucy poems: William Wordsworth [59] [140] "The Machine Stops" Standing in the Light: Level 42 "The Machine Stops" E. M. Forster [5 ...
Song poems are songs with lyrics by usually non-professional writers that have been set to music by commercial companies for a fee. This practice, which has long been disparaged in the established music industry, was also known as song sharking and was conducted by several businesses throughout the 20th century in North America .
On the early published sheet music for the song, Procter's name is written in larger letters than Sullivan's. [6] Sullivan's father's death had inspired him to write his Overture In C (In Memoriam) over a dozen years earlier. [7] The composer's brother, Fred Sullivan, was an actor who appeared mostly in operettas and comic operas.
Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .