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Lincoln (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album to the 2012 biographical historical drama film Lincoln, based on the Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, a semi-biographical novel that covers the final four months of United States President Abraham Lincoln's life.
The composition was published in 1918 by the Metropolitan Music Company, with Carol Hirsch as the lyricist, and Baker and Blink (of the Metropolitan Music Company) composing the score. [1] The piece was arranged for piano and includes a single voice part. [1] The song is upbeat and set to an allegro moderato tempo. [2]
The sonata for violin and piano in G minor, L. 140, was written in 1917. It was the composer's last major composition and is notable for its brevity; a typical performance lasts about 13 minutes. The premiere took place on 5 May 1917, the violin part played by Gaston Poulet, with Debussy himself at the piano. It was his last public performance.
A list of songs about Abraham Lincoln. Pages in category "Songs about Abraham Lincoln" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The title echoes earlier songs with the same melody as "Adams and Liberty" and repeated in later campaign songs. Shortly after Jesse's death in 1853, the song was modified to support Lincoln's presidency. The song was last sung by the Hutchinson Family at the 1892 dedication for the statue of John P. Hale.
Lincoln maintains the range of musical styles present on the previous album, They Might Be Giants, and lyrically attempts to merge word play into narrative songs. Lyrical themes are broadened with the inclusion of songs detailing troubled romantic relationships ("Ana Ng", "They'll Need a Crane", "I've Got a Match"), [1] [2] and songs that verge on social or political satire ("Purple Toupee ...
President Lincoln loved it, and to-day it is the most popular song in the country, irrespective of section." [83] As late as 1934, the music journal The Etude asserted that "the sectional sentiment attached to Dixie has been long forgotten; and today it is heard everywhere—North, East, South, West." [84]
Opus 12: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (1943) Opus 13: Children's Songs after I.L. Peretz for singer and piano (1943) Opus 14: String Quartet No. 3 (1944) Opus 15: Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (1944) Opus 16: Children's Notebook No. 1 for piano (1944) Opus 17: Jewish Songs after Shmuel Halkin (1944) Opus 18: Piano Quintet (1944)