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Fiddle Songs and Banjo Songs: A Description Index
… indexed for comparative reference. The fiddle songs are typically humorous, very brief, highly variable and disunified. The same is true of many banjo songs associated with the banjo. Ballads in the fiddle and the banjo repertory are not indexed if previously catalogued by Child or Laws.</p> …
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Infinity songs
Infinity Songs is a work for soprano, narrator, mixed ensemble and electronics that explores the life cycle of a star. Each of the work’s four movements depicts a different stage of the star’s life, including how new stars are born from the remnants of previous stars. The piece was written for Leah …
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Songs of Expansion
A collection of poetry.
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"Songs to Soothe a Mother": Intertextuality and Intertribalism in Kiowa War Mother Songs
War Mother songs were first composed for the women of the Kiowa War Mothers Chapter 18 organization during World War II by two main composers, Lewis Toyebo and James “Jimmy A” Anquoe. These songs initially functioned to provide encouragement for both the servicemen deploying overseas and their …
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Selected songs by Vincent Persichetti
… and organ), chorus, and voice and piano (songs and song cycles); and an opera. Persichetti was the recipient of three Guggenheim Fellowships, over 100 commissions from organizations such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the St. Louis Symphony, and was the first …
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Songs On the Water: Stories
<p>Recurring characters, including two reformed linemen, one megalomaniacal preacher and another kind one, a misunderstood young Wiccan, a grizzled alligator poacher, and a formidable ex-trucker-turned-bartender meet and mingle throughout this collection. Many of the stories use narrative …
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Songs of Deviance and Defiance: Subjectivity, emotions and authenticity in Bhawaiya Folk Songs of North Bengal
… song genres to Bengalis. While all Bangla folk songs express the emotions and the stories of the most marginal people, Bhawaiya is significant for expressing the female passion grounded in day to day material reality through the stories of the female subject of the songs. The passionate lyrics …
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The Art Songs of Tom Cipullo
… composer Tom Cipullo has written well over 100 songs. His music is complex and challenging yet firmly rooted in the 20th-century continuation of Romanticism. Cipullo's choice of poetry is almost always contemporary American, embracing a full range of themes. His songs have won top awards in …
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Ambiguity in the Song of Songs
… will explore the ambiguous nature of the Song of Songs, as it manifests itself in the narrative, the structure, the imagery, and the language of the Song. It will also propose the new interpretative possibilites that this ambiguity leads to, when it is approached asking the question "What does …
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The Vocabulary Demands of Popular English Songs
… is the potential for vocabulary learning through songs; however, few researchers have examined whether songs are a suitable source of input for vocabulary learning for English language learners. To address this need, this corpus-driven study investigated the vocabulary demands of popular English …
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A recital of art and dramatic songs
LD2668 .R4 MUSC 1988 T56
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Using American pop songs in EFL classrooms
<p>This project has an aim to provide effective learning environment through music resources by reducing negative feeling. Student will get away from boring classroom and have some positive energy to boost motivation on language acquisition during learning activities because music is a power to …
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The Songs of Sir John Andrew Stevenson
… and cathedral works. This thesis focuses on the songs of Sir John Andrew Stevenson and includes a catalogue of his works which amounts to more than three hundred individual pieces containing the majority of his output. Very little has been written about these songs so investigating this …
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A City Out of Old Songs: the influence of ballads, hymns and children’s songs on an Irish writer and broadcaster
… in the form of ballads, hymns and children’s songs in English and in Irish. The Context Statement is set in the wider cultural environment of the increasing interest in Ireland in local versions of ballads annotated by Francis Child (1825-1896). This exegesis interrogates how the songscapes of …
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Campaign songs as a factor in American politics
… article “Slang in America” observes that folk songs, like language, are not an abstract construction of the learned, bu something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has their bases broad and low, close to the ground; because the …
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CANCIONES ARGENTINAS (SONGS OF ARGENTINA): A RECORDING PROJECT
… Project comprises recordings of Argentine art songs. The discs are approximately 40-60 minutes in length and consist of songs from the traditional art-song repertoire for voice and piano. This project is particularly appropriate because of the very limited number of recordings of Argentine …
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