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  Song cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in sequence as a single entity.
Usually all of the songs are by the same composer and use words from the same poet.
Song Cycle is also the title of the debut album by Van Dyke Parks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Song_cycle   (545 words)

  
 Song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The words of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, although they may be religious verses or free prose.
Art songs are songs created for performance in their own right, or for the purposes of a European upper class, usually with piano accompaniment, although they can also have other types of accompaniment such as an orchestra or string quartet, and are always notated.
The German word for song, "Lied" (plural: "Lieder"), is used in French and English-speaking communities to refer to the serious art song, whereas in German-speaking communities the word "Kunstlied" (plural: "Kunstlieder") is used to distinguish art song from folk song ("Volkslied").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Song   (1108 words)

  
 Champagne, Mario Joseph Serge Gerard (1994)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This study outlines the origins and development of the French song cycle from its early roots in a style based on the German song cycles of the first half of the nineteenth century, especially those of Robert Schumann, to the death of one of its primary practitioners, Gabriel Fauré.
Three of his cycles are in the early style, three are in the late style, and one combines traits from both styles.
There are a large number of cycles and possible cycles from the period under study and continuing on into the twentieth century, most of which are unpublished or are otherwise difficult to obtain.
www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Archive/Disserts/champgne.html   (291 words)

  
 MTO 8.2: Krebs, Review of Ferris
Numerous earlier writers have argued that Dichterliebe is an organically unified cycle, and have used their analyses of this cycle as the basis for a model of unity and coherence, which, they imply, is applicable to the Romantic song cycle in general.
Since she assumes that song cycles must be coherent works, and that tonal structure is the most significant aspect of their coherence, she places undue weight on any mention of key relationships, with the result that her assessment of the historical significance of certain reviews is slanted.
Ferris counters this expectation for plots and narratives with the observation that in the nineteenth century, the song cycle was considered a lyric, not a dramatic genre.
www.societymusictheory.org:16080 /mto/issues/mto.02.8.2/mto.02.8.2.krebs.html   (7892 words)

  
 Song cycles
When the word "cycle" or phrase "song cycle" or an equivalent is not stated in the title, generally LC adds a note to that effect and a corresponding subject heading.
Be aware that publishers occasionally published a collection of songs by one composer based on texts by one author which were not conceived of as a song cycle, and may have been composed years apart, either singly or in other collections of songs by the composer.
The title of the collection may imply a song cycle, but since that was not the composer's intention, the subject heading "Song cycles" should not be used.
www.library.yale.edu /cataloging/music/songcycl.htm   (448 words)

  
 Song Cycle Media Playlist Generator
Song Cycle allows you to define a repeating program format consisting of any number of media items (mp3 is currently supported, other formats will follow).
Song Cycle was inspired by a program called Tobasco's Amazing Clockwheel, written by Toby Sheets of Rio Grande Mud Media.
But Song Cycle is a completely new product, written from the ground up to be better (and certainly faster) than Amazing Clockwheel and any of its more literal imitators (Toby used to point directly to one of them from his own web site!).
home.comcast.net /~jpaquette_main/songcycle   (885 words)

  
 Art Song Terms
A few terms: Song “Cycle” is a group of songs, usually by the same poet, that a composer conceives as being sung together.
These two song cycles are so successful as a group of songs that it is unusual to hear the individual songs.
One moment in the final song stands out as especially poignant, when she sings “der Schleier fällt” (the veil falls) it seems as if she might not be able to finish the song.
www.lottelehmann.org /lehmann/llf/intro/llf_introduction16.html   (1704 words)

  
 The Analysis of Song
The latter two-thirds of the song proper (measures 6-19) is a long approach to the dominant of mm.
It would seem, then, that the song is not tonally complete at the point that the words stop, and what completion there is is provided by the meditations of the piano in a third-related key, with the music of the opening song.
This strategy was intensified at the dénoument of the song, when the approach to the V of IV was delayed by a marvelous chromatic prolongation of the mediant (whose local function was to prepare the V of IV).
humanities.uchicago.edu /classes/zbikowski/seminar.html   (7091 words)

  
 Daron Hagen :: Official Site :: Songbook Contents
The conceit is that the cycle’s protagonist is an old man, near death, surveying his life as it manifested itself in his poems.
Like many of my song cycles, it was compiled and revised many times over the course of a number of years.
The song is bi-tonal, with one hand in a “blue” key and the other in a “brown” key.
daronhagen.com /songbook/contents.html   (3430 words)

  
 Doug Yule - Song Cycle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Synopsis of the story around which this cycle is arranged.
Ten thousand years back or so, a girl from one tribe, hunter-gatherers, meets and falls for a guy from another tribe, a new breed practicing the latest craze, totalitarian agriculture.
These songs were recorded on a Tascam 414 four track cassette machine.
www.geocities.com /landem.geo/dougyule/dysongcycle.html   (116 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Song Cycle: Music: Van Dyke Parks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
On songs such as "The All Golden," "Palm Desert," and "Laurel Canyon Blvd.," you'll hear poetic links to Brian Wilson's most convoluted, internalized soundscapes, as well as a wily musical intelligence that will either intoxicate or infuriate you.
Even today Song Cycle is not an easy listening experience but it is a challenging and ultimately rewarding one.
Song cycle is immaculately orchestrated, yet detatched, and free of any "hippy bandwagon" fodder.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005JAT?v=glance   (1766 words)

  
 Song cycle - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A song cycle is a group of classical songs (or lieder) designed to be performed in sequence as a single entity.
Usually all songs in a song cycle will be on words by the same poet, and there will often be a theme running through them all.
The earliest well known song cycles, however, are by Franz Schubert, who was one of the first composers to develop the lied as a significant form.
www.questionz.net /Beethoven/Song_Cycle.html   (353 words)

  
 Mahler's Das Lied: Symphony or Song Cycle?
It is a song cycle and a symphony in equal measure.
To me, it is a song cycle (based on the common element of the chinese poems).
It's obvious that for instance the sixth symphony is not a fucking song cycle.
www.good-music-guide.com /forum/index.php?topic=6386.0   (1015 words)

  
 Singin' Songs Music - Singin' Songs of Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This song does just a little bit of that and goes on to explain his three Laws of Motion in very basic terms.
It is a song about why we need to do all we can to save the rain forests, rather than what they are and how they work.
It is a song which begins by describing this unique and beautiful continent, but it is really a description of the Antarctic food chain.
www.singinsongs.com /science.htm   (663 words)

  
 ASCAP and Lotte Lehmann Foundation Announce New Song Cycle Competition For Young Composers
First Prize will be a $3,500 commission for a song cycle for voice and piano, publication by E.C. Schirmer of the completed work, and performances of the song cycle in three major American cities, including New York.
Founded in 1998, The Lotte Lehmann Foundation is devoted to the preservation of the magnificent Lehmann artistic and teaching legacy, and to her commitment to educating the public to appreciate art song.
Art song, (also called classical song, solo song, Lieder or mélodie) is music written for classically trained voice and piano, set to pre-existing poetry.
www.ascap.com /press/2005/lehmann_010505.html   (528 words)

  
 The AOXOMOXOA song cycle
The fact that Hunter wrote an explicit song cycle, "Eagle Mall," which was never set by the Dead, is evidence that he was thinking in an interconnected way about his lyrics at the time.
When Siddhartha listened attentively to this river, to this song of a thousand voices; when he did not bind his soul to any one particular voice and absorb it in his Self, but heard them all, the whole, the unity; then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om-- perfection." (pp.
The Egyptians apparently believed that the beetle laid its egg in the ball of dung, which it rolled to its burrow and consumed; they saw in the life cycle of the beetle a microcosm of the cyclical processes in nature, and particularly of the daily rebirth of the sun.
arts.ucsc.edu /GDead/AGDL/aoxomoxo.html   (1266 words)

  
 Artistic Death Cycle of the Pop Song Mapped
Citing such popular songs as "On the Wings of Love" (Jeffrey Osborne), "La Vida Loca "(Ricky Martin) and "Like a Virgin" (Madonna), Randolph commented, "At first, what interested me, as an expert in ephemera, was how quickly the composers and singers names were stripped from the credits.
While comparatively few songs reach the car advertisement marker, "Rock and Roll," Led Zeppelin's rock anthem for a generation, has emerged as the Cadillac theme for 2004.
The final artistic death knell for any song, Randolph believes, is placement on a "Sweatin' to the Oldies" tape by Richard Simmons.
www.mamacitaonline.com /satire/satire_popsong.html   (561 words)

  
 Review of "Elegies: A Song Cycle"
As the title implies, Elegies is a collection of songs composer-lyricist William Finn wrote in memory of people and pets in his life who have passed away.
In these songs Finn looks death and grief and the enormous void left in the universe by the passing of each soul squarely in the face and finds reason to laugh, cry, and sing.
This production features one new song entitled I Do, I Do, I Do, which is a tribute to the late author James Goldman, author of the book for Stephen Sondheim’s Follies (which opened the 2005 Barrington Stage season), as well as the award-winning play and screenplay for The Lion in Winter.
myvanwy.tripod.com /companies/barrington/elegies.html   (1056 words)

  
 Schubert Kosegarten cycle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1815, Franz Schubert composed 20 songs to texts by Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten.
Research by Morten Solvik reveals that these songs may have been composed as a unified whole and arranged in a particular sequence.
All of this is clearly supported by Schubert's use of key areas, head motives and other self-conciously employed musical devices.
www.gopera.com /lieder/kosegarten   (55 words)

  
 Opera star to perform premiere of song cycle inspired by Sandburg
Internationally acclaimed opera star and University of Illinois alumnus Jerry Hadley will return to Illinois Nov. 14 to perform the world premiere of "The Song and the Slogan," a song cycle inspired by the epic Sandburg poem.
The program also will feature American songs that reflect the life, work and spirit of Sandburg, performed by Hadley and UI music professor and pianist Eric Dalheim.
Aside from the sentimental connection to his alma mater, Hadley cited the UI's Central Illinois location as well as the University Library's Sandburg Archives among the reasons he decided that the university was a logical place for the work's first public performance.
www.news.uiuc.edu /gentips/00/10opera.html   (554 words)

  
 Home Page: British Song Fa La La
Join us in a cornucopia of information on over 6000 song cycles, sets, albums, collections and individual songs, representing a body of song literature from the end of the 16th century to the present.
__a song that is 1:30 in length, or songs between 1:00 and 3:00 in length
If the song is part of a larger work, or an album or collection, its position in the work and its page number are given.
cfaonline.cfa.asu.edu /hoffer   (3306 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Elegies - A Song Cycle by William Finn: Music: William Finn,Carolee Carmello,Betty Buckley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Though no storyline links these songs, they are united by the underlining idea of loss; in turn funny, tender, witty, biting and quietly devastating, they form a unified tapestry.
We do not have the memories that he does of his family and friends, and although these songs bring them to life for us to some extent, they are impressionistic portraits drawn from a cohesive whole that only he knows deeply.
Except for the last song, I was not impressed by the material--what few rhymes there are are trite and commonplace, and Finn is even audacious enough to put praise forhimself in one of the lyrics.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009V7TL?v=glance   (2057 words)

  
 VAN DYKE PARKS Song Cycle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Song Cycle - the album that almost changed the face of pop!
Song Cycle's budget of $48,302 made it the most expensive album ever recorded.
Song Cycle is a musical travelogue, a sonic trip across the America of Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Busby Berkeley musicals and John Ford Westerns.
www.ready-steady-go.org.uk /vandye.htm   (548 words)

  
 A Song Cycle With Bells On - December 13, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY News
The most popular are those mounted by opera singers, who are often woefully untrained to sing lieder; the song portion of the evening tends to be short at these events, and everyone waits for the encores, which will consist of opera highlights.
Recitals can also be crazyquilts of individual songs with little rhyme or reason to their juxtapositioning.
On Sunday afternoon at Alice Tully Hall, a close to sold-out crowd was treated to arguably the greatest song cycle in music history, Franz Schubert's "Winterreise" ("A Winter's Journey").
www.nysun.com /article/24365   (263 words)

  
 Francine Trester's Bus 66 - an uban song cycle
In Waiting, the third poem in the cycle, the bus is described as “that distant flame … two headlights, just around the corner … two yellow suns, swallowed by the rain.” The play of color and chiaroscuro is further illustrated in Cradle Song, a lullaby sung at the twilight hour.
And when the cycle is performed this May at Weill Recital Hall, the set of eighteen songs will contain two songs written just for the occasion.
He also presented six concerts at the Musée Carnavalet, the museum of the city of Paris, featuring a song cycle by Christopher Berg based upon the letters of Madame de Sévigné.
home.comcast.net /~ftrester/bus66.html   (1522 words)

  
 Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - "Elegies: A Song Cycle" in Philadelphia - 3/30/05
William Finn's Elegies: A Song Cycle is a heartfelt, often moving celebration of life.
In songs about people who have departed this world, Finn writes about what made these people special, and illustrates why, as one of his songs puts it, "life has infinite joys."
The song "Peggy Hewitt & Misty Del Giorno" is one of the best examples of how Calarco's direction gives the songs new import.
www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/philly/phil14.html   (909 words)

  
 "Rock Cycle" Song Lyrics & Sound Clip
This song is available on J.P. Taylor's Singing' Songs of Science.
There are cracks, or faults, where these plates meet and here earthquakes and volcanoes often appear when the plates move.
The lyrics explain how rocks are formed, and identify the three different types of rocks (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic) and differences in how each type is formed.
www.songsforteaching.com /jptaylor/rockcycle.htm   (128 words)

  
 Art Song Catalog: Song Cycle Index: Page 29 of 54
Cycle Comments: Although this is listed in the catalog as three songs, the three poems are set to blend seemlessly from one to the other creating one indivisible piece.
Cycle Comments: From the composer: "Ladies of Their Nights and Days is designed for a singing actress with great musical and dramatic skills.
Each song is a different character in a different European setting.
www8.addr.com /~pazzobas/cat/CySo29.html   (1147 words)

  
 A Dylan Thomas Song Cycle, Peter Dickinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Peter Dickinson : A Dylan Thomas Song Cycle
Peter Dickinson's Dylan Thomas Song Cycle was composed in New York, when he was a graduate student at The Juilliard School of Music.
The first performance was given that year by Richard Eikenberry with the composer; the first British performance by Robin Fairhurst and Anthony Lindsay in London in 1965.
www.chester-novello.com /work/15172/main.html   (377 words)

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