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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    One of several songs that Bowie wrote about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four; Bowie had also hoped to produce a televised musical based on the book. [31] "2112" 2112: Rush: Anthem: Ayn Rand: Song shares themes with the novel, such that Neil Peart recognized Rand in the album's liner notes. [32] "Abigail" Creatures: Motionless in White: The ...

  4. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song) Traum durch die Dämmerung; Trees (poem) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano; Two Songs, 1916; Two Songs, 1917–18; Two Songs, 1920; Two Songs, 1928

  5. Lists of music inspired by literature - Wikipedia

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    Musical settings of, or music inspired by, poems by Byron; Edgar Allan Poe and music; Music related to Anne Rice's novels; Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien [1] Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde; List of songs based on poems; Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)

  6. Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde - Wikipedia

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    The Harlot's House – Dance Poem after Oscar Wilde: chamber 1988 Free-bass accordion, timpani and percussion Donald Swann: The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cycle: song cycle 1991 Swann set The Harlot's House, along with extracts from The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other texts by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and John Clare

  7. Category:Music based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Songs based on poems (126 P) D. Music based on the Divine Comedy (2 C, 6 P) K. Music based on the Kalevala (1 C, 16 P) Music based on Des Knaben Wunderhorn (6 P) M.

  8. Plaisir d'amour - Wikipedia

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    " Plaisir d'amour" ([plɛ.ziʁ da.muʁ], "Pleasure of love") is a classical French love song written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816); it took its text from a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), which appears in his novel Célestine.

  9. Kashmiri Song - Wikipedia

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    The song has led an unusually varied life particularly in the field of popular culture. Some of the places where the song/poem is mentioned or quoted are: The film The Sheik (1921) starring Rudolph Valentino, based on the 1919 novel The Sheik by E. M. Hull. Ford Madox Ford's novel Parade's End (1924–1928).