Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

Along with the Pontificale, Ealdred may have brought back from Cologne the first manuscript of the Cambridge Songs to enter England, a collection of Latin Goliardic songs which became famous in the Middle Ages.

His later life was spent in various parts of the Islamic world, in Aleppo with its governor Sayf ad-Dawlah ( to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs ), in Ray with the Buwayhid vizier Ibn ' Abbad, and elsewhere.

Kitab al-Aghani ( Book of Songs ), a collection of poems and songs with the stories of the composers and singers in many volumes from the oldest epoch of Arabic literature down to the 9th cent.

In 2000, Benny wrote the music for fellow Swede ( no relation ) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor ( the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!

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.

Culture and the arts flourished, with grandiose artworks such as Along the River During the Qingming Festival and Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, along with great Buddhist painters like the prolific Lin Tinggui.

Songs often used the audio from the videos as samples incorporated into the music, such as with the songs " Timber " ( released as a single in 1998 ) and " Pan Opticon ".

She began collaborating with Vertov, beginning as his editor but becoming assistant and co-director in subsequent films, such as Man with a Movie Camera ( 1929 ), and Three Songs About Lenin ( 1934 ).

McLean co-edited the book Songs and Sketches of the First Clearwater Crew with sketches by Thomas B. Allen for which Pete Seeger wrote the foreword.

Songs such as " Come Go with Me " by Exposé, " Show Me " by the Cover Girls, " Fascinated " by Company B, and " Silent Morning " by Noel brought freestyle into the mainstream.

He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums ( such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin ' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice ' n ' Easy ).

His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

Scenes of a harper entertaining guests at a feast was common in ancient Egyptian tombs ( see Harper's Songs ), and sometimes contained hedonistic elements, calling guests to submit to pleasure because they cannot be sure that they will be rewarded for good with a blissful afterlife.

Caridad Svich's 12 Ophelias ( a play with Broken Songs ) includes elements of the story of Hamlet but focuses on Ophelia.

In October 2001, he again released two albums: Songs I Heard, featuring big band re-workings of children's show themes, and 30, featuring Connick on piano with guest appearances by several other musical artists.

The following year finally marked the release of Snow Patrol's second album ' When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up ', which, despite slightly disappointing initial sales, would eventually go gold in the wake of the band's later fame, along with their debut ' Songs For Polarbears '.

Von Trier's use of sexually explicit images in The Idiots ( 1998 ) started a wave of arthouse mainstream films with unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( 1999 ), Baise-Moi ( 2000 ), Intimacy ( 2001 ), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny ( 2003 ) and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs ( 2004 ).

Öngür joined Dadaşlar, a band with Ersen Dinleten between 1974 – 1975 and 1979 – 1980 and Dervişan ( Dervishes ), a band with Cem Karaca between 1974 and 1978 ; in 1975, Danga participated in Erkin Koray's ' Elektronik Türküler ' ( Electronic Songs ) album.

* Traditional May Day Songs with references

Emperor Gaozong of Song initiated a massive art project during his reign, known as the Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute from the life story of Cai Wenji ( b. 177 ).

Indeed, with fear and terror I imagine the time, when those dark iconoclasts come to power: with their raw fists they will batter all marble images of my beloved world of art, they will ruin all those fantastic anecdotes that the poets loved so much, they will chop down my Laurel forests and plant potatoes and, oh !, the herbs chandler will use my Book of Songs to make bags for coffee and snuff for the old women of the future – oh !, I can foresee all this and I feel deeply sorry thinking of this decline threatening my poetry and the old world order-And yet, I freely confess, the same thoughts have a magical appeal upon my soul which I cannot resist ….

The first Elektra LP, New Songs ( EKLP 1 released March 1951 ), was a collection of Lieder and similar ' art ' songs which sold few copies.

Songs like Glorious Beer, and the first major music hall success, Champagne Charlie ( 1867 ) had a major influence in establishing the new art form.

Emperor Gaozong of Song ( 1127 – 1162 ) once commissioned an art project of numerous paintings for the Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, based on the woman poet Cai Wenji ( 177 – 250 AD ) of the earlier Han Dynasty.

* H ' art Songs ( 1978 ), Kopf

Georges Pichard, Alméry Lobel Riche, Renée Ringel, Rojan, Monique Rouver, Marcel Vertès, Lotan Welshans, and Édouard Zier, The most famous illustrations for The Songs of Bilitis were done by Willy Pogany in art deco style for a publication privately circulated by Macy-Masius, New York, in 1926.

The naturalistic and flowing art, the Songs of Chu, historical records ( Records of the Grand Historian ), excavated bamboo documents ( Guodian bamboo slips ) and other artifacts reveal heavy Daoist and native folk influence in Chu culture.

The cover art and the two " Bard's Songs " gave the band its nickname " The Bards ".

*" Love Songs ", a mixed-media art installation by Mary Kelly

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

As in English, the Hebrew word for " love ", ahavah אהבה, is used to describe intimate or romantic feelings or relationships, such as the love between parent and child in Genesis 22: 2 ; 25: 28 ; 37: 3 ; the love between close friends in I Samuel 18: 2, 20: 17 ; or the love between a young man and young woman in Song of Songs.

The Marian hymns from the 1605 Gradualia are set in a light line-by-line imitative counterpoint with crotchet pulse which recalls the three-part English songs from Songs of sundrie natures ( 1589 ).

Byrd's last collection of English songs was Psalms, Songs and Sonnets, published in 1611 ( when Byrd was over 70 ) and dedicated to Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, who later also received the dedication of Thomas Campion's First Book of Songs in 1615.

* William Blake ( 1757 – 1827 ) English writer ( Songs of Innocence )

Especially important, and frequently translated into English, is the anthology New Songs from the Jade Terrace, compiled by Xu Ling ( 507-83 ), under the patronage of Crown Prince Xiao Gang ( Later Emperor Jien Wen ) of the Liang Dynasty.

" Chumbawamba recorded a version of this song on their 2003 release, English Rebel Songs 1381 – 1984.

Bridges wrote and also translated historic hymns, and many of these were included in Songs of Syon ( 1904 ) and the later English Hymnal ( 1906 ).

Artists included Alexander Kipnis ( III, IV, V ); Herbert Janssen ( II, V ); Gerhard Hüsch ( II, III, IV, V ); John McCormack ( accompanied by Edwin Schneider ) ( II ); Alexandre Trianti ( II, III ); Ria Ginster ( IV, V ); Friedrich Schorr ( II ); Elisabeth Rethberg ( IV, V ); Tiana Lemnitz Each volume was accompanied by a booklet containing a short essay by Ernest Newman ( I: Words and Music in Hugo Wolf, II: Wolf's Goethe Songs, III: A Note of Wolf as Craftsman, IV: The Italienisches Liederbuch ) together with German texts, English translations ( by Winifred Radford ) and notes on each song ( by Newman ).

* A Favourite Collection of English Songs ( London, 1757 )

Songs such as " Circle of Life " and " He Lives in You " blend a combination of Zulu and English lyrics, as well as traditional African styles of music with more modern western styles.

* Percy, Thomas ( 1858 ) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets.

( 2007 ) The Folk Handbook: Working with Songs from the English Tradition

There is an English translation by Kelly ( Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs, 1867 ).

and English Songs ( 1832 ).

The song was also included on A. L. Lloyd's 1955 album The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, using Kidson's melody, but the version using the melody later developed by Simon & Garfunkel in " Scarborough Fair / Canticle " was first recorded on a 1956 album, English Folk Songs, by Audrey Coppard.

However, according to Alan Lomax, MacColl's source was probably Cecil Sharp's One Hundred English Folk Songs, published in 1916.

English Songs

* Joseph Ritson-A Select Collection of English Songs

Songs written by Finnish artists whose lyrics are written in English are divided into a category of its own.

* Hapa Haole Songs, Island songs written in English

* Greek Songs and Greek Music Articles about Greek Music and Greek songs with their story and lyrics translated to English.