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* 1946: Leo Sowerby, The Canticle of the Sun

The cellist in Sofia Gubaidulina's The Canticle of the Sun plays a flexatone in the middle of the piece.

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* The Canticle of the Sun ( 1997 ) and Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion ( 1994 ).

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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.

Historically, the " Canticle of the Sun " is first mentioned in the Vita Prima of Thomas of Celano, in 1228.

* The Canticle of the Sun ( 1997 ) and Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion ( 1994 ).

* Amy Beach: Canticle of the Sun ( l998 ) by the Capitol Hill Choral Society, conducted by Betty Buchanan ( Albany Records ).

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.

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

On the one hand, while it is used in the common parlance in the Church of England to cover several of the enumerated canticles, the Prayer Book applies it only to the " Benedicite ", while in its Calendar the word Canticles is applied to what is commonly known as the " Song of Solomon " ( the Catholic " Canticle of Canticles ", Vulgate, " Canticum canticorum ").

Though its premise is similar to other post-apocalyptic novels such as A Canticle for Leibowitz, Riddley Walker is unusual in its style and focus.

The Nunc dimittis ( also Song of Simeon or Canticle of Simeon ) is a canticle from a text in the second chapter of Luke named after its first words in Latin, meaning ' Now dismiss ...'.

One is she of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her ' ( Canticle of Canticles 6: 8 ); which represents the one mystical body whose head is Christ, of Christ indeed, as God.

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 ").

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.

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.

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.

One reviewer noted that this book draws " on such well-known dystopias as A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, and A Canticle for Leibowitz ", and " what is unique in Hoban's haunting vision of the future is his language " which is described as being similar to the Nadsat slang spoken in Anthony Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange.

Many of the other books in the series also follow his story, such as The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and also Blood Canticle.

Several science-fiction novels, such as A Canticle for Leibowitz, explored the long-term consequences.

Among the most significant such Golden Age narratives are: Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles ; Clarke's Childhood's End ; Blish's A Case of Conscience ; and Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.

The Canticle of Saint Eulalie, written in the second half of the ninth century, is generally accepted as the first such text.

Victorinus composed commentaries on various books of Holy Scripture, such as Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Habakkuk, Ecclesiastes, the Canticle of Canticles, St. Matthew, and the Apocalypse, besides treatises against the heresies of his time.