They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.

Also, many sources credit Alfonso owing to his influence on other works within the poetic tradition, including his introduction on religious song.

In the Talmud ( Tractate Yoma 29a ), Esther is compared to the " morning star ", and is considered the subject of Psalm 22, because its introduction is a " song for the morning star ".

* Canadian poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen recited the poem as an introduction to his own song " The Darkness ", during a couple of shows on his 2010 world tour, most notably at his State Kremlin Palace show on 7 October.

" The Doors incorporated " Asturias " into their song " Spanish Caravan "; also, Iron Maiden's To Tame a Land uses the introduction of the piece for the song bridge ; and more recently, a guitar version of Granada functions as something of a love theme in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona

In live concerts, Bono would sing the song with an introduction of, " I'd like to sing a medley of my hit.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

Short passages of recitative are, however, sometimes used in operetta, especially as an introduction to a song.

The tin whistle is heard ( most notably during the introduction ) in the song " My Heart Will Go On " by Celine Dion in the movie Titanic.

* Robin's Act I patter song " My boy, you may take it from me " ( No. 7 ) has a shortened introduction, and repeats with Richard were deleted.

And found it was pretty good for an introduction of a song.

A celesta provides the introduction to a song Louis Armstrong recorded for RCA entitled " Someday You'll Be Sorry ", and is featured prominently throughout the song.

Avenged Sevenfold used one in their introduction to the title song " Nightmare " on their 2010 album.

The theme song for All New Captain Kangaroo used the opening notes and part of the melody of the original theme as its introduction.

One continuous sequence involving an introduction of Donnie's high school prominently features the song " Head over Heels " by Tears for Fears, Samantha's dance group, " Sparkle Motion ", performs with the song " Notorious " by Duran Duran, and " Under the Milky Way " by The Church is played after Donnie and Gretchen emerge from his room during the party.

" Also, the song " Last Rites / Loved to Deth " reinterprets the introduction of Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach, speeding up the tempo.

In a documentary programme about that album ( as part of the Classic Albums TV series ), lead singer Bruce Dickinson wanders through the avenues of Portmeirion and describes how the song was written and how the band's manager obtained permission from Patrick McGoohan to use dialogue from the show in the song's introduction.

He gave a special welcome introduction which segued into his song " Things Change " on Sirius!

" is the official fight song and introduction of the Chicago Blackhawks.

The group originally intended to use the song as introduction music, but they have rarely done so.

While only adequate technically, the video captured the energy and playfulness of Springsteen and the E Street Band in concert, and was the first such introduction many casual fans had.

The song is used during the introduction to the 2009 film Up in the Air, in a version sung by Sharon Jones and at the end credits of the 2009 documentary Food Inc. performed by Bruce Springsteen.

A snippet was sung by Patti Scialfa as part of the mood-setting introduction to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's live version of " Cover Me ", included on their album Live / 1975-85.

In each concert, Springsteen typically would extend one song ( between 1974 and 1984, almost always " Rosalita ") to involve an elaborate introduction of each member of the band, introducing nicknames, characterizing each player (" Professor " Roy Bittan, " Miami " Steve Van Zandt, " Phantom " Dan Federici, " Mighty " Max Weinberg, and Garry " W ." Tallent ), whipping the song and the audience into a frenzy for the final, over-the-top introduction of the " Big Man ," Clarence Clemons.

Springsteen had always given elaborate band introductions during shows, often incorporating humorous characterizations of band members or stories of how they had joined and always building up to an over-the-top introduction of " Master of the Universe " stage foil Clarence Clemons.

Jerome, in the introduction to his Latin translation of the books of Samuel and Kings ( part of the Vulgate ), referred to the book as a chronikon (" Chronicles " in English ).

The revolutionary period saw the introduction of policies favouring French over the regional languages, pejoratively referred to as patois.

A year after its introduction this design was improved to include a full 16-bit parallel math unit using four 74181s, this design being referred to as the SuperNova.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock and roll " due to his promotion of the music and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll " on radio in the early 1950s.

Hershey and Chase showed that the introduction of deoxyribonuclease ( referred to as DNase ), an enzyme that breaks down DNA, into a solution containing the labeled bacteriophages did not introduce any < sup > 32 </ sup > P into the solution which demonstrated that the phage, while intact, is resistant to the enzyme.

Although the use of the term infantry in English dates from the 15th century ( from French Infanterie, itself from the Italian Infanteria ), the foot troops of the previous eras in history who fought with a variety of weapons before the introduction of the firearms are also referred to as infantry.

Byggvir ( referred to in the prose introduction to the poem as a servant of Freyr ) says that if he had as noble a lineage and as an honorable a seat as Freyr, he would grind down Loki, and make all of his limbs lame.

Beyla ( referred to in the prose introduction to the poem as a servant of Freyr ) says that all of the mountains are shaking, that she thinks Thor must be on his way home, and when Thor arrives he will bring peace to those that quarrel there.

Thus, Islamic architecture started witnessing the introduction of such structures as domes and large, arched entrances, referred to as iwans.

There is no consensus on a precise starting point of the New Wave-Adam Roberts refers to Alfred Bester as having singlehandedly invented the genre, and in the introduction to a collection of Leigh Brackett's short fiction, Michael Moorcock referred to her as one of the genre's " true godmothers ".

The Short Text of the Revelation of Love was finished by 1413, as noted in its introduction in the fifteenth-century Amherst Manuscript, now in the British Library, which named Julian and referred to her as still alive.

In this period the construction of the great tower of the male, referred to as " Saracen " and the introduction of tuna fishing that will develop in later centuries with more modern techniques.

Historic crop rotation methods are mentioned in Roman literature, and referred to by several civilizations in Asia and on three major elements: sophisticated systems of crop rotation, highly developed irrigation techniques and the introduction of a large variety of crops which were studied and catalogued according to the season, type of land and amount of water they require.

Although old-age pensions had already been introduced by Asquith as Chancellor, Lloyd George was largely responsible for the introduction of state financial support for the sick and infirm ( known colloquially as " going on the Lloyd George " for decades afterwards ) — legislation often referred to as the Liberal reforms.

; Plays: Started as plays enacted in town squares followed by the actors using the courtyards of taverns or inns ( referred to as Inn-yards ) followed by the first theatres ( great open air amphitheatres and then the introduction of indoor theatres called Playhouses.

A solution to these problems was the introduction of the mechanical " drafting machine ", an application of the pantograph ( sometimes referred to incorrectly as a " pentagraph " in these situations ) which allowed the drafter to have an accurate right angle at any point on the page quite quickly.

In the prose introduction to the poem Lokasenna, Skaði is referred to as the wife of Njörðr and is cited as one of the goddesses attending Ægir's feast.

On April 6, 1997, The Disney Channel shortened its name to simply " Disney Channel " ( however, promos that ran until September 2002 often referred to the channel only as " Disney " and the logo often omitted the " Channel " in the network's name ) took on a revamped look including the introduction of a new logo, which featured a 1930s-era Mickey Mouse on a black Mickey ear-shaped TV.

In most of peninsular Italy the widespread medieval introduction of the of the title was Longobardic, while in Sicily and Sardinia it was coeval with Norman rule some centuries later, and one referred to the baronage when speaking of landed nobles generally.

The Fennell investigation's findings prompted the introduction of the Fire Precautions ( Sub-surface Railway Stations ) Regulations 1989 ( usually referred to as the Section 12 Regulations because they were introduced under section 12 of the Fire Precautions Act 1971 ).

Prior to the introduction of a new city charter on June 20, 1984, council members in Windom were referred to as alderpersons.

The next iteration of the mainframe and the server-based products were named DB2 Universal Database ( or DB2 UDB ), a name that had already been used for the Linux-Unix-Windows version, with the introduction of widespread confusion over which version ( mainframe or server ) of the DBMS was being referred to.

This Hour Has 22 Minutes ( almost always referred to since fall 2009 as simply 22 Minutes ; the full title is still seen briefly in the show's current introduction ) is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television.

In other contexts, " classical theory " will have other meanings — if a current accepted theory is considered to be " modern ", and its introduction represented a major paradigm shift, then previous theory ( or new theories based on the older paradigm ) will often be referred to as " classical ".