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  2. Sung poetry - Wikipedia

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    Sung poetry is a broad and imprecise music genre widespread in European countries, such as Poland and the Baltic States especially Poland and Lithuania, to describe songs consisting of a poem (most often a ballad) and music written especially for that text. The compositions usually feature a delicate melody and scarce musical background, often ...

  3. 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.

  4. Song poetry - Wikipedia

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    The poets of the Song dynasty drew on a long tradition of poetry in China, particularly upon forms prevalent in the Tang dynasty, together with influences from Central Asia.The ci form is especially associated with the Sung dynasty period shows signs of development toward the end of the Tang dynasty and the period of disunity immediately before the Song dynasty, especially as exemplified in ...

  5. America the Beautiful - Wikipedia

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    "America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey, [1] though the two never met. [2] Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally titled "Pikes Peak".

  6. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    T. Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song)

  7. Shiv Kumar Batalvi - Wikipedia

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    The poem 'Main ikk shikra yaar banaya' is in the Punjabi language, the English translation of this poem is also equally beautiful. [13] Shiv Kumar Batalvi's poems have been sung by famous singers such as Jagjit Singh, Hans Raj Hans, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ghulam Ali and many others.

  8. Die schöne Müllerin - Wikipedia

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    Die schöne Müllerin (German pronunciation: [diː ˈʃøːnə ˈmʏlɐʁɪn],"The Fair Maid of the Mill", Op. 25, D. 795), is a song cycle by Franz Schubert from 1823 based on 20 poems by Wilhelm Müller.

  9. I syng of a mayden - Wikipedia

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    The manuscript in which the poem is found, (Sloane MS 2593, ff.10v-11) is held by the British Library, who date the work to c.1400 and speculate that the lyrics may have belonged to a wandering minstrel; other poems included in the manuscript include "I have a gentil cok", "Adam lay i-bowndyn" and two riddle songs – "A minstrel's begging song ...