Henryk Górecki ( born 1933 ) has used this beautiful Renaissance melody in at least three compositions: Chorale in the Form of a Canon ( 1961 / 1984 ), Old Polish Music ( 1969 ), and the First String Quartet ( 1988 ), subtitled Już się zmierzcha ( It Is Growing Dusk ).

And even hearing it in a concert hall surrounded by hundreds of people the words and the melody would make me a little colder and I would reach out for my husband's hand.

By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

In all his miscalculations, Stravinsky made the fatal historical blunder of presuming that he could transform other composers' inspirations -- representing many peoples, time periods and styles -- into his own music by warping the harmony, melody, or form, to verify his own experiments.

" Amazing Grace ", with the words written by Newton and joined with " New Britain ", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

In addition to singing words, some a cappella singers also emulate instrumentation by reproducing the melody with their vocal cords.

Blake's lyrics have also been set to music by other composers without reference to Parry's melody.

In 1992, he wrote the introduction melody for the European football championship, which was organised by Sweden that year.

The origin of the nickname appears to be a poem entitled “ The Pilgrims At Home ” written by Edwin Fitzwilliam that was sung at the 1907 home opener (“ Rory O ’ More ” melody ).

It is mainly homophonic — melody above chordal accompaniment ( but counterpoint is by no means forgotten, especially later in the period ).

This pressed the Classical style inwards: towards seeking greater ensemble and technical challenge — for example, scattering the melody across woodwinds, or using thirds to highlight the melody taken by them.

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.

The melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

The words " God save Emperor Francis " were inspired by the British anthem, though not the melody, which is from the ( Croatian ) folk tradition.

Early epic poetry was also accompanied by music, and pitch changes associated with the accented Greek must have highlighted the melody, though the exact mechanism is still a topic of discussion.

The song melded electro hip-hop beats influenced by Yellow Magic Orchestra with the melody from Kraftwerk's " Trans-Europe Express.

The earliest reported example of this musical form is the song " Kalenda Maya ", supposedly written by the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( 1180-1207 ) to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.

** Sliabh Luachra fiddling from the southwest in Munster, characterized by a unique repertoire of polkas and slides, as well as the use of double stops and drones as well as playing the melody in two octaves as in Donegal.

It begins with a long 23-bar melody on an unaccompanied solo trumpet ( which returns at the symphony's close, " transfigured " by all that has intervened ).

During the Swing era, many soloists improvised " by ear " by embellishing the melody with ornaments and passing notes.

Jazz guitar soloists are not limited to playing single notes by their instrument, allowing them to create " chord solos " by adding indicating a melody using the top note of their chord voicings.

The composer of the melody is unknown, but it was later re-arranged by singer and composer Ahmed Al-Jumairi, where it became the current, widely-used anthem.

Although the original words are unknown, the melody was recorded in c. 1615-25 in the John Skene of Halyards Manuscript as " Flowres of the Forrest ", though it may have been composed earlier.

The song, written in 1848, was largely unknown outside of Shaker communities until Aaron Copland used the melody in his 1944 composition Appalachian Spring.

A theory of some musicians is that melody was inspired by Russian march " Yearning for the Motherland ", or originated from unknown folk anti-war song during the Russo-Japanese War.

This system was also ambiguous, so that almost no one, except the most trained and educated singers, could sing an unknown melody at sight.

The ascription to Albinoni rests upon Giazotto's purported discovery of a tiny manuscript fragment ( consisting of a few opening measures of the melody line and basso continuo portion ) from a slow second movement of an otherwise unknown Albinoni trio sonata.

Key gave the poem to his brother-in-law, Judge Joseph H. Nicholson, who saw that the words fit the popular melody " The Anacreontic Song ", by English composer John Stafford Smith.

The Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini used an extract of melody to write the aria " Ovunque al mondo ... ", in 1904 for his work Madama Butterfly.

Dutch composer Adriaen Valerius recorded the current melody of the Wilhelmus in his " Nederlantsche Gedenck-clanck " in 1626, slowing down the melody's pace, probably to allow it to be sung in churches.

In Edipo Re ( a short one act work ) the composer uses exactly the same melody for the final scene " Miei poveri fior, per voi non più sole ..." ( with the blinded Edipo ) as he had for the act 4 soprano aria from Der Roland von Berlin.

This interest was first manifested in Weber's incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he used a Chinese melody, making him the first Western composer to use an Asian tune that was not of the pseudo-Turkish kind popularized by Mozart and others.

The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs ( 1870 ).

This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.

The ensemble leader serves as poet, composer, conductor and performer, creating a text, improvising a melody partially based on the features of the Chopi tone language and composing a second countrapuntal line.

We place the stress on melody ; the chords are played pretty much the way the composer wrote them.

The song " The Secret Marriage " from this album was adapted from a melody by German composer Hanns Eisler, and " Englishman In New York " was about the eccentric writer Quentin Crisp.

The melody Swedish composer Edvin Kallstenius arranged the traditional melody from Västmanland.

The first nocturnes to be written under the specific title were by the Irish composer John Field, generally viewed as the father of the Romantic nocturne that characteristically features a cantabile melody over an arpeggiated, even guitar-like accompaniment.

The fourth movement of the Second Symphony contains a passage consisting of a long arching line for unison violins ( followed by ' cellos ), accompanied by swirling woodwind, which the composer described as " a very long melody ".

The night after the ultimatum was accepted, the composer, Alfredo Keil, at the suggestion of a group of friends that included Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and Teófilo Braga, wrote the melody for A Portuguesa as a patriotic protest march.

Throughout the movement, there is a simplicity of presentation of the melody and themes, which Robert Schumann compared to " Beethoven's epigrams ", ideas which could be extended, had the composer chosen to.

" You Raise Me Up "- It was in fact reading Graham ’ s novel The Whitest Flower, that led Norwegian composer, Rolf Lovland to contact Graham with a melody.

" This melody was also famously used by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana in his symphonic poem celebrating Bohemia, “ Má vlast ,” as “ Vltava ” ( Die Moldau ).

Very few countries have a national anthem written by a world renowned composer, some exceptions are Germany, whose anthem " Das Lied der Deutschen " uses a melody written by Joseph Haydn and Austria, whose national anthem " Land der Berge, Land am Strome " was sometimes credited to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The ensemble leader serves as poet, composer, conductor, and performer, creating a text, improvising a melody partially based on the features of the Chopi's tone language, and composing a second countrapuntal line.

The film ends with a haunting yet melancholic melody from the excerpts of " In the Village ", part of the Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1 by the Russian composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov.

He would later write to his protégé, the composer Sergei Taneyev, " I listened to the Delibes ballet ' Sylvia '... what charm, what elegance, what wealth of melody, rhythm, and harmony.