These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

There are times when one suspects that the songs that are dropped from musical shows before they reach Broadway may really be better than many of those that are left in.

Altogether fifteen virtually unknown Rodgers and Hart songs are sung by a quintet of able vocalists.

For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.

Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to " Woolfson / Parsons ".

Containing a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, " Amazing Grace " is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

These praise songs are probably the same performed at Matilda's coronation, but might have been used at other court ceremonies before Ealdred's death.

Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material.

Work songs sung by sailors between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries are known as sea shanties.

Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: Stand Up and Cheer, the Acadia University fight song.

Notable among a number of fight songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: the Acadia University alma mater set to the tune of " Annie Lisle ".

Only two songs are in circulation from these recordings: " Steal Away " and " Operator ".

He composed also a number of different works including many art songs in different languages and a number of important piano pieces, like the five " Doloras " ( 1914 ), which he later orchestrated and are normally played in concerts in Chile and Latinamerica.

Settings of aphoristic poetic utterances, the songs are accompanied by a very large orchestra.

An alternate viewpoint is that limiting praise to the unaccompanied chant of the early church is not commanded in scripture, and that the churches in any age are free to offer their songs with or without musical instruments.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

Many pop songs are used as anthems, such as Queen's " We Are the Champions ", which is commonly used as a sports anthem.

Many songs have been written to teach phonemic awareness and they are usually referred to as alphabet songs.

There are also songs that go through the alphabet, making each letter stand for something in the process.

The wailing, guitar-strumming minstrels of the cattle kingdom made up songs about him.

Religion was stripped of ornament and ceremony, and made as plain and simple as possible ; sermons and songs often used repetition to get across to a rural population of poor and mostly uneducated people the necessity of turning away from sin.

* Drinking songs: According to the grammarian Athenaeus, Alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it.

Outside of America, the first deliberate attempts to create a " Pan-Celtic music " were made by the Breton Taldir Jaffrennou, having translated songs from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales into Breton between the two world wars.

Videos were made for most songs, often by Hexstatic, and used a lot of stock footage.

Neil first saw Tim play with Split Enz in 1972, he said, " That performance and those first songs made a lasting impression on me.

*** The Classic of Poetry is made up of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs, 74 minor festal songs, traditionally sung at court festivities, 31 major festal songs, sung at more solemn court ceremonies, and 40 hymns and eulogies, sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.

The list made it easier for beginning DJs to learn how to create seamless transitions between songs without dancers having to change their rhythm on the dance floor.

The experience of trying to entertain audiences who did not speak English is what brought him to the pantomimes, gestures, songs and facial expressions which eventually made him famous.

These composers, like many of their predecessors, both made arrangements of folk songs and incorporated traditional material into original classical compositions.

Ritchie, living in a time when the Appalachians had opened up to outside influence, was university educated and ultimately moved to New York City, where she made a number of classic recordings of the family repertoire and published an important compilation of these songs.

Sometime between the time after Same As It Ever Was, was released, and Truth Crushed To Earth Shall Rise Again, House of Pain made a demo tape with the following songs on it: Intro, 3rd Stone From The Sun, Choose Your Poison ( remix ), Irish Pride, Reaching Out, Same Old Game, and Womb To The Tomb.

Realizing the potential for the market, Inoue made a tape recorder-like machine that played songs for a 100-yen coin each.

The earliest karaoke-based music video game, called Karaoke Studio, was released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1985, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of songs and therefore reduced replay value.

In 2001, Dunst made her singing debut in the film Get Over It, in which she performed two songs.

Dunst made her singing debut in the 2001 film Get Over It, performing two songs written by Marc Shaiman.

In November 2007 Led Zeppelin made the band's songs available as legal digital downloads, one of the last major rock bands to do so.

Two of their songs made the Billboard Country Singles Chart: " Texas Cowboy Night " (# 23 ) and " Play Me or Trade Me " (# 43 ).

Hammerstein was probably the best " book writer " in Broadway history – he made the story, not the songs or the stars, central to the musical and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form.

The Twilights, formed in Adelaide, also made the trip to London, recording a series of minor hits, absorbing the psychedelic scene, to return home to produce covers of Beatles ' songs, complete with sitar, and the concept album Once upon a Twilight ( 1968 ).

These recordings, made circa 1860, include fragments of two French songs and a recitation in Italian.

Indeed, Oum Koulthoum, a legend of Arabic music, has sung one of those poems and made her song " robaaiyet el khayam " become one of her most beautiful songs.

They made a list of songs to learn over the summer break, and Doughty got a summer job to buy his first keyboard.