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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Rondeau (forme fixe) - Wikipedia

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    A rondeau (French:; plural: rondeaux) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry, as well as the corresponding musical chanson form. Together with the ballade and the virelai it was considered one of three formes fixes, and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the late 13th and the 15th centuries.

  5. Ballade (forme fixe) - Wikipedia

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    The ballade (/ b ə ˈ l ɑː d /; French:; not to be confused with the ballad) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry as well as the corresponding musical chanson form. It was one of the three formes fixes (the other two were the rondeau and the virelai ) and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the ...

  6. Formes fixes - Wikipedia

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    The formes fixes (French: [fɔʁm fiks]; singular: forme fixe, "fixed form") are the three 14th- and 15th-century French poetic forms: the ballade, rondeau, and virelai.Each was also a musical form, generally a chanson, and all consisted of a complex pattern of repetition of verses and a refrain with musical content in two main sections.

  7. Category:Poetic forms - Wikipedia

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    Poems by form (4 C) Poetic rhythm (3 C, 95 P) R. Rhyme (1 C, 46 P) S. Stanzaic form (1 C, 72 P) Pages in category "Poetic forms" The following 141 pages are in this ...

  8. Greek lyric - Wikipedia

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    Alcaeus and Sappho (Brygos Painter, Attic red-figure kalathos, c. 470 BC). Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek.Lyric poetry is, in short, poetry to be sung accompanied by music, traditionally a lyre.

  9. Song - Wikipedia

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    Marcello Sorce Keller (1984), "The Problem of Classification in Folksong Research: A Short History", Folklore XCV, no. 1, 100–104. Jean Nicolas De Surmont (2017), From Vocal Poetry to Song, Toward a Theory of Song Objects with a foreword by Geoff Stahl, Stuttgart, Ibidem. Jean Nicolas De Surmont: From Vocal Poetry to Song.