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The organ accompaniment rests on a pattern of chords held often for a full measure in the left hand, and broken chords in eighth-notes in the right hand. The choir voices enter together, with the lower voices also moving slowly like the left hand (a full measure for "Deep", another one for "peace"), while the soprano pronounces "peace" sooner ...
"Peace" is a composition by Horace Silver that was first recorded on August 29, 1959. It has become a jazz standard . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Silver also wrote lyrics for the tune.
The song expresses a yearning for peace. It mourns comrades who have fallen in battle, and claims to speak for the fallen. The lyrics take issue with the 'culture of bereavement', and with the glorification of war that allegedly exists in Israel. It calls on those who live on to strive for peace.
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
Joel wrote "Travelin' Prayer" about two years before it appeared on the album. [3] The song has four verses, the first of which is later repeated, and two instrumental breaks. [4] The lyrics offer a prayer that the singer's lover be protected until she returns to the singer. [4] The song has elements of country music, and is taken at a brisk ...
"Our Prayer" is a wordless, a cappella piece that Wilson originally composed for the band's Smile album. [3] The title may be a reference to the 1939 traditional pop standard "My Prayer". [citation needed] It was originally simply titled "Prayer". [3] "Prayer" was tracked during the Smile sessions on September 19 and October 4, 1966, at ...
At Jennens's request, Handel made several changes in the music for the 1745 revival: "Their sound is gone out" became a choral piece, the soprano song "Rejoice greatly" was recomposed in shortened form, and the transpositions for Cibber's voice were restored to their original soprano range. [34]
Peace, Perfect Peace is a hymn whose lyrics were written in August 1875 by Edward H. Bickersteth at the bedside of a dying relative. [1] [2] He read it to his relative immediately after writing it, to his children at tea time that day, [2] and soon published it along with four other hymns he had written in a tract called Songs in the House of Pilgrimage. [1]