Their biggest hits – including " The Sound of Silence " ( 1964 ), " I Am a Rock " ( 1965 ), " Homeward Bound " ( 1965 ), " Scarborough Fair / Canticle " ( 1966 ), " A Hazy Shade of Winter " ( 1966 ), " Mrs. Robinson " ( 1968 ), " Bridge over Troubled Water " ( 1969 ), " The Boxer " ( 1969 ), and " Cecilia " ( 1969 ) – peaked at number one in several charts.

Further hit singles came, including " Scarborough Fair / Canticle ", based on a traditional English ballad with an arrangement by Martin Carthy, and " Homeward Bound " ( later U. S. No. 5 ), about life on the road while Simon was touring in England in 1965.

The Spiritual Canticle is an eclogue in which the bride ( representing the soul ) searches for the bridegroom ( representing Jesus Christ ), and is anxious at having lost him ; both are filled with joy upon reuniting.

A seminal work in this subgenre was Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz ( 1959 ), in which a recrudescent Catholic Church, pseudo-medieval society, and rediscovery of the knowledge of the pre-holocaust world are central themes.

* The Nunc dimittis, the Canticle of St. Simeon (" Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace ...") ( Luke ), is read.

* Canticle Weaving: Trombone Concerto # 2, Ralph Sauer ( trombone ), Los Angeles Philharmonic ( March 29, 2003 )

* At Lauds, the " Canticle of Zachary " ( Luke 1: 68-79 ), commonly referred to as the " Benedictus " ( from its first word );

* At Compline, the " Canticle of Simeon " ( Luke 2: 29-32 ), commonly referred to as the " Nunc dimittis " ( from the opening words ).

Sometimes a fourth basic conflict is described, " man against society ", Some of the other types of conflict referenced include " man against machine " ( The Terminator, Brave New World ), " man against fate " ( Slaughterhouse Five ), " man against the supernatural " ( The Shining ) and " man against god " ( A Canticle for Liebowitz ).

The Nunc Dimittis is the traditional ' Gospel Canticle ' of Night Prayer ( Compline ), just as Benedictus and Magnificat are the traditional Gospel Canticles of Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer respectively.

In the actual Roman Liturgy, Lauds are composed of four psalms with antiphons ( in reality there are usually seven, but, the three Laudate psalms are counted as one since they share one Gloria Patri and antiphon ; likewise, psalms 62 and 66 are similarly conjoined ), a Canticle, Capitulum, Hymn, Versicle, the Benedictus with Antiphon, Oratio, or Collect, and, on certain days, the Preces, or Prayers and Versicles.

The creative product of these years, including his famous poems ' Birthday ' ( about Adolf Hitler's last hours ) and ' The Canticle ' ( a poem about the life of Francis of Assisi ), was self-published in his third collection simply entitled Birthday ( 1953 ).

The final stage was the Unitio ( theosis in Greek ), a period in which the soul of the monk was meant to bond with the Spirit of God in a union often described as the marriage of the Song of Solomon ( also called the " Song of Songs " or the " Canticle of Canticles ").

The Canticle of the Sun, also known as the Laudes Creaturarum ( Praise of the Creatures ), is a religious song composed by Saint Francis of Assisi.

* Benedictus ( Song of Zechariah ), the canticle sung at Lauds, also called the Canticle of Zachary.

His works are: " A Commentary on the Canticle of Canticles ", which is lost ; " Opuscula " ( new edition, Namur, 1899 ), including: " Duodecim gratiarum actiones "; " Jubilus seu Hymnus de SS.

Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz centers on a monastic order called the Albertian Order of Leibowitz, named by its founder after Albertus Magnus and dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge lost after a nuclear war.

Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post-apocalyptic can deal with anything from the near aftermath ( as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ) to 375 years in the future ( as in By The Waters of Babylon ) to hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker and Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.

For example, Walter M. Miller Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz is not generally considered a future history.

Although his complete poems add up to fewer than 2500 verses, two of them — the Spiritual Canticle and The Dark Night of the Soul are widely considered masterpieces of Spanish poetry, both for their formal stylistic point of view and their rich symbolism and imagery.

In the post-apocalyptic science fiction book A Canticle for Leibowitz, written by Walter M. Miller, Jr. and published in 1959, a character that can be interpreted as being the Wandering Jew is the only one to appear in all three novellas.

* Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, for alto, tenor, and piano, Op.

Technophobia is also thematic in Walter M. Miller's novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, in which nuclear war produces an attempt to stamp out science itself, which is held to be responsible.

* Walter M. Miller – A Canticle for Leibowitz

* A Canticle for Leibowitz, reviewed by Ted Gioia ( Conceptual Fiction )

* A Canticle for Leibowitz, audiobook at Internet Archive, NPR version.

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* a canticle taken from the Gospel of Luke: the Canticle of Zechariah ( Benedictus ) for morning prayer, and the Canticle of Mary ( Magnificat ) for evening prayer

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* In the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Michael Miller, Jr., first published in 1959, the residence of the post-nuclear holocaust Pope is called New Rome.

The vignette that takes place one thousand years later in a monastery bears some similarities to Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.

* A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr ..

* The second book of A Canticle for Leibowitz, " Fiat Lux " ( Latin: Let There Be Light ) is set in a late medieval post-apocalyptic former United States, which has rediscovered electricity, and is undergoing political consolidation.

* Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman is set in c3274, one century after the events of " Fiat Lux " in A Canticle for Leibowitz.

* Canticle of Peace ( 1995 ), for baritone, S. A. T. B.

* Canticle of Peace ( 1995 ), for baritone solo, S. A. T. B.

The works dealing with the Old Testament included Commentary on Samuel, Commentary on Genesis, Commentaries on Ezra and Nehemiah, On the Temple, On the Tabernacle, Commentaries on Tobit, Commentaries on Proverbs, Commentaries on the Song of Songs, Commentaries on the Canticle of Habakkuk, The works on Ezra, the Tabernacle and the Temple were especially influenced by Gregory the Great's writings.

It is also known in English as Canticle of Canticles or simply Canticles.

In the meantime, he had composed a great part of his most famous poem Spiritual Canticle during this imprisonment ; his harsh sufferings and spiritual endeavours are then reflected in all of his subsequent writings.

Illustration of Hezekiah's Canticle belonging to the book Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.

The whole of the Offertorium is a reference to Britten's earlier Canticle No. 2 " Abraham and Isaac " from 1952.