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- Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
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’The Dance’ by William Carlos Williams is an upbeat ekphrastic poem that delves into the mood and setting of “The Kermess”. The poem takes a look at the emotive qualities of the dancers in Brueghel’s painting.
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The rhythm, grace, and emotions evoked by dancers often inspire poets to craft verses that celebrate the beauty of this art form. In this article, we explore some famous poems about dancing that enchant readers with their vivid imagery and lyrical movements. 1. "The Dance" by William Carlos Williams. One of the most celebrated poems about dance ...
Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 1981
First published in his 1962 book Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems, this poem was inspired by “The Kermess”, a 1500s painting by Breughel the Elder, which depicted ordinary Dutch citizens...
Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a symphonic poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It premiered 24 January 1875. It is in the key of G minor. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, based on the play Danza macàbra by Camillo Antona-Traversi.
In antiquity, poems were often sung: the first lyric poets in ancient Greece performed their work to the accompaniment of the lyre, and the oldest anthology of Chinese poetry, the Shijing, was a collection of songs.
William Carlos Williams’s “The Dance” consists of twelve lines of rhythmic verse written in response to a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569).
