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Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .
The rhyme was the first audio recorded by Thomas Edison on his newly invented phonograph in 1877. [12] It was the first instance of recorded English verse, [12] following the recording of the French folk song "Au clair de la lune" by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860. In 1927, Edison reenacted the recording, which still survives. [13]
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 ...
"Love and Death" Dream Harder: The Waterboys: Love and Death: William Butler Yeats [138] "Love and Destroy" Franz Ferdinand: The Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov [139] "Lucy" Liberation: The Divine Comedy: The Lucy poems: William Wordsworth [59] [140] "The Machine Stops" Standing in the Light: Level 42 "The Machine Stops" E. M. Forster [5 ...
"Threnody for Sharon Tate", written by Freddie Hubbard and İlhan Mimaroğlu, from the 1971 album Sing Me a Song of Songmy "Lament for Booker", written by Horace Parlan in memory of Booker Ervin; In film and other music: "Threnody To Earth" by Dream Koala "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Back in the Day (Missy Elliott song) Back Then (CDB song) Back Then Right Now; Back to the 80s (song) Back When; Back When My Hair Was Short; Baggy Trousers; Be Here Now (George Harrison song) Beach Baby; The Best Year of My Life (song) Birth of Rock and Roll; La Bohème (Charles Aznavour song) Bookends (song) The Boys of Summer (song) Bring ...
A signature song may be a song that spearheads an artist's initial mainstream breakthrough, a song that revitalizes an artist's career, or a song that simply represents a high point in an artist's career. Often, a signature song will feature significant characteristics of an artist and may encapsulate the artist's particular sound and style.
On the early published sheet music for the song, Procter's name is written in larger letters than Sullivan's. [6] Sullivan's father's death had inspired him to write his Overture In C (In Memoriam) over a dozen years earlier. [7] The composer's brother, Fred Sullivan, was an actor who appeared mostly in operettas and comic operas.