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"The Sound of Silence" (originally "The Sounds of Silence") is a song by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, written by Paul Simon. The duo's studio audition of the song led to a record deal with Columbia Records, and the original acoustic version was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia's 7th Avenue Recording Studios in New York City for their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M ...
The Eolian Harp is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795 and published in his 1796 poetry collection. It is one of the early conversation poems and discusses Coleridge's anticipation of a marriage with Sara Fricker along with the pleasure of conjugal love .
The tense silence between two movements—in itself music, in this environment—leaves wider scope for divination than the more determinate, but therefore less elastic, sound. After Paul Hindemith read this, he suggested a work consisting of nothing but pauses and fermatas in 1916.
Sounds of Silence is the second studio album by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on January 17, 1966.The album's title is a slight modification of the title of the duo's first major hit, "The Sound of Silence", which originally was released as "The Sounds of Silence". [2]
Camille and Kennerly dressed as elves while filming a video for their Lord of the Rings soundtrack medley. Camille and Kennerly perform as the rock and Celtic harp duo the Harp Twins; they are best known for their duet arrangements of contemporary songs from artists including Iron Maiden, Kansas, The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Lady Gaga, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Rihanna, Guns N' Roses, Coldplay ...
Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 69 (1977) [45] Geirr Tveitt. Harp Concerto No. 1 (Lost) Harp Concerto No. 2 "Concerto Eroico" op.170 (1957) [46] Heitor Villa-Lobos. Harp Concerto (1953) Georg Christoph Wagenseil. Concerto for Harp and strings in F, WWV 281 (1761) John Williams. On Willows and Birches (2009) Mario Zafred
Rhodri Davies (born 1971) is a Welsh musician and composer. He is a harp player working within the field of free improvisation.He was one of the most prominent members of the London reductionist school of improvised music that was active in the late 1990s and early 2000s [1] and which has been described as being "extremely influential over the last decade".
The harp was the aristocratic instrument of Gaelic Ireland, and harpers enjoyed a high social status which was codified in Brehon Law. [7] The patronage of harpers was adopted by Norman and British settlers in Ireland until the late 18th century, although their standing in society was greatly diminished with the introduction of the English ...