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Meaning of Life (album)


wrote it with Harlœ and Michael Pollack. Clarkson described the song as discussing on giving 100% commitment to one another and as reminiscent of her relationship with her husband. The fourth song and the titular track, "Meaning of Life", was written by British singer James Morrison with Ilsey Juber and Shatkin, who handled its production. Morrison and Shatkin originally presented the song to Clarkson for "Piece by Piece", but she felt its theme was unsuitable for the album at the time. She later took a hold on
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Crazy (Willie Nelson song)


English, Nelson wrote the song in early 1961; at the time he was a journeyman singer-songwriter who had written several hits for other artists but had not yet had a significant recording of his own. Nelson originally wrote the song for country singer Billy Walker who turned it down for the same reason Roy Drusky turned down "I Fall to Pieces" the previous year - that it was "a girl's song". The song's eventual success helped launch Nelson as a performer as well as a songwriter. Musically
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One Sweet Day


chorus and idea, as well as the melody they had produced, they wrote and composed the song. The song was produced by Carey and Afanasieff, who built on the song's melody and added various grooves and beats. Carey expressed how the song was "meant to be" and how all the pieces fit into place: "I wrote the initial idea for 'One Sweet Day' with Walter, and I had the chorus...and I stopped and said, 'I really wanna do this with Boyz II Men
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Bits and Pieces (song)


"Bits and Pieces" is a song by 1960s quintet The Dave Clark Five. The single hit number two in the UK and number four in the US, as well as being a success in other countries. It was number two in Australia and number one in Canada and Ireland. It reached number four in the Netherlands. In Germany, however, it only reached the 20th place. Lead vocals are sung by Mike Smith, who also wrote the song. The song is in antiphonal style, with Mike Smith singing
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Fiddle Faddle (musical composition)


Faddle for Decca Records on June 11, 1959. Anderson wrote the piece as one of a number of pieces conducted over time by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. The finished piece instantly became a favorite of audiences and Arthur Fiedler alike. Fiedler programmed it so frequently in Pops concerts that the Pops audiences began referring to it as "Fiedler-Faddle". Written in classic "song-and-trio" form, it is based on the childhood nursery song "Three Blind Mice". It was recorded many
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'Til I Die


a good vocal sound, I think Desper [the engineer] deserves all the credit on that one, I mean we just had the best microphones, the best microphone technique and engineering on that particular piece and that particular time. It was just a wonderful piece of music." Johnston expressed similar feelings towards the song as he states that "the track is very simple...and the great, great vocal arrangement that he wrote. Really, a great piece of work." The song was first released on the band
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Famous (Kanye West song)


-charged rivalry in 21st-century pop". "The Guardian"'s Alexis Petridis described the song's position on "The Life of Pablo" as being "a flatly fantastic piece of music that may be the best thing on the album". "Time" staff named "Famous" one of the best songs of the year 2016 and wrote of it that: Kanye West is a genius musician and a world-class provocateur, and "Famous" is yet another piece of proof those two qualities are inextricably
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Filipino American music


U.S. governmental educational program who attended the fair wrote criticizing songs conflicting with the actual presentation. Some pensionados including Jorge Bocobo who was studying at the Indiana University at the time wrote music or songs about the experiences at the fair. In excerpt of Bocobo's piece about the experience “In St. Louis we enjoyed the Pike, With spectacles we did like, As guides in the Philippine Exhibits, Where we were thought to be Igorots, We had fits.” The irony in Borobo's song is of United States college-bound
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Entre a Mi Mundo


Guerra's in-house music engineer, oversaw the production, though A.B. remained the producer, and arranger "calling all the shots". The writing process commenced in early 1991. While choosing the songs to record, Vela gave A.B. several songs that Vela wrote. One of these was an unfinished song called "Si La Quieres". At the time, the song only had "bits and pieces", though A.B. liked its existing chorus. Vela wrote a verse to the song, which did not impress A.B.;
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Invincible (Kelly Clarkson song)


with producer Greg Kurstin on NPR, she ended up writing a part of what would be included in the song, which she remarked that no one had cut yet. She, together with Shatkin, who had also previously collaborated with Clarkson as Kurstin's engineer, finished the song towards the end of Clarkson's recording sessions for her seventh studio album, "Piece by Piece". Shatkin presented the song to Clarkson, saying "I know you're done recording your album, but we've just wrote this amazing song and
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A Cruel World


the band's oldest songs. The band was hanging out at the Brooklyn apartment of guitarist Mike Kennedy when guitarist Nick Rowe brought in the song, half-written. Rowe gave it to Williams, who thought it was "one of the coolest pieces of music [he] had heard in a really long time". He wrote the lyrics on Kennedy's toilet with headphones in a matter of minutes. The track "Falling Backwards" features a guest performance by Mudvayne's Chad Gray. "What if I Lost it
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Piece by Piece (song)


tracks. He wrote, "Songs penned by [Clarkson], or any artist writing their own songs, feels different. The track is letting fans into her soul while telling more of her story, past and present." Katherine St. Asaph of "Time" also highlighted the song as one of the album's stronger moments, describing it as a dagger to deadbeat dads everywhere that marks her most pointed lyrics since "Stronger"s "You Love Me" (2011). AllMusic's senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine also included
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Nine Million Bicycles


Beijing with her manager Mike Batt. Their interpreter showed them around the city and told that there are supposedly nine million bicycles in the city. Batt wrote a song based around the title "Nine Million Bicycles" after returning to England two weeks later, and it was one of the last songs to be recorded for "Piece by Piece". Adrian Brett, who played the ethnic flutes on Batt's album "Caravans" (1978), contributed to the song; an ocarina was used for the low sounds, and
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Twist of Shadows


striking resemblance to one of Nooten's other pieces, specifically a B-side "Promises" also released from this album. Also in 2010, Bert Barten claimed to have shared authorship for songs on "Twist of Shadows", asserting "It was always a big grey area who wrote what and who inspired who. All the members even the manager at that time used to fight a lot about things like this." Anka Wolbert reflected in an interview in 2005: "The ‘old’ Xymox was always a combination
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Dance with Me (Kelly Clarkson song)


2012) at the time. Instead of being included for "Chapter One", she later recorded the song for "Piece by Piece". An '80s U2-inspired energetic synthpop and dance-pop anthem, "Dance with Me" is a song about dancing and escapism, serving as an invitation and to dance with one another. "Dance with Me" has received a generally positive response from music critics, who lauded Clarkson's vocal performance and the complimented the song as an energetic tune. Upon "Piece by Piece"s
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Piece by Piece (song)


who, "piece by piece", had restored her "faith that a man can be kind and a father could stay". Written in a first-person narrative, Clarkson introspectively co-wrote the song to her father, whose abandonment of his family when she was six years old was utilized as a juxtaposition in contrast to her husband's unconditional love to her and their daughter, whom they had both promised in the song to never leave behind. Clarkson pegged "Piece by Piece" as a follow-up
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Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest


Too Many Mornings" in Europe. Its cover photo showed Rolling Stones member Brian Jones, according to Jameson "because a lot of people just plain liked the photo, particularly the people in Europe who were involved in the Surrey deal." Although the album did not receive much attention at the time of its release, it is now one of the most prized pieces of the era. Analyzing "Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest", critic Dean McFarlane wrote the "culminating collaged arrangements and schizophrenia that gives this record
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Much Afraid


debut album "Jars of Clay" in 1995. Both songs were changed significantly, especially "Frail" which was previously an instrumental piece which now contained lyrics. Notably, these songs were two of the first songs written by Jars of Clay. The album features the multi-instrumental Greg Wells, who went on to produce OneRepublic, Katy Perry, Pink, and Rufus Wainwright, who plays drums and bass guitar on almost every song and co-wrote "Tea And Sympathy" and the single "Crazy Times".
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Master's Apprentices (1971 album)


piano on a few cuts, including "Because I Love You". During sessions they bumped into a Who's Who of UK music: The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Barclay James Harvest, Ringo Starr and Roy Harper. Towards the end of recording, they found themselves one song short of the optimum LP length, so at Jarratt's suggestion they wrote a new song, built up from a Latin-flavoured instrumental shuffle that Ford had been playing with. Keays wrote lyrics for the piece overnight, they cut it
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Begin (The Millennium album)


grandmother for the last time before she had died. He wrote the first and second verse and showed it to Curt who wrote the bridge for it. "5 A.M." came from songwriter Sandy Salisbury who desired to "write a melodic piece about the quite early-morning time" Salisbury drew from his love of bossa nova music for this song, specifically Antônio Carlos Jobim. Prior to the release of "Begin" a single for "It's You" backed with "I Just Want To Be Your Friend" was
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Piece by Piece (song)


"Piece by Piece" is a song by American singer Kelly Clarkson taken from her seventh studio album of the same name. She co-wrote the track with its producer Greg Kurstin. A midtempo pop song about restoring someone's faith in love and family relationships, Clarkson promulgated "Piece by Piece" as a sequel to the song "Because of You" (2004) but with a "happy ending". After a discussion with her sister about their family life, she introspectively co-wrote the song in a
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Igor Kokhanovsky


start writing poetry and play guitar; it was he who taught Vladimir some chords. But it was Vysotsky who first came up with his own songs. "Semyonych, what's that?' - I asked, as he sang some. – 'My own, I started to write such pieces.' - Out of sheer envy I wrote Indian Summer, a song dedicated to Lena Kopeleva (Lev Kopelev’s daughter), a girl whom I was in love with at the time. This song served for a while
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I Melt with You


"one of the most enduring songs of the new wave era." "Los Angeles Times" contributor Sara Scriber wrote in 1997 that the song endured because it "struck a chord for its gothic, escapist undercurrent and danceable rhythm." In 2017, Chrissie Dickinson of the "Chicago Tribune" wrote that "with its irresistible guitar melody, danceable beat and heartfelt call and response vocals, it was a piece of work that fit snugly into the era." "I Melt with You" has been covered by a
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No Nonsense (album)


Where Are the Pieces of My Heart" was one of two songs written by songwriter Hugh Prestwood, who also wrote Trisha Yearwood's "The Song Remembers When" in 1993. Prestwood also wrote "More Fun Than the Law Allows". The fifth track "I'd Rather Be Used (Than Not Needed at All)" was a duet with Barbara's sister, Louise, and was written by Louise's then-husband, R.C. Bannon. "No Nonsense" was released on a compact disc upon its release in
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Piece by Piece (Kelly Clarkson album)


attracted to. Clarkson described the fifth song and title track "Piece by Piece" as her most personal song on the album. It was produced by Kurstin, who co-wrote the song with Clarkson after a conversation she had with her sister about their family life. The sixth song, "Run Run Run", features American recording artist John Legend. Produced by Jason Halbert, it was written by Tim James, Antonina Armato, Joacim Persson, Ry Cuming, and David Jost. Clarkson and Legend had previously worked
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River Man


"River Man" is the second listed song from Nick Drake's 1969 album "Five Leaves Left". According to Drake's manager, Joe Boyd, Drake thought of the song as the centre piece of the album. In 2004 the song was remastered and released as a 7" vinyl and as enhanced CD single including a video to the song by Tim Pope. The song is in a 5/4 time signature and is one of the few songs Drake wrote to be played in standard tuning. The string arrangement was composed
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Teitur Lassen


From Danish Hearts") in 2010. In 2006 Grammy winner Corinne Bailey Rae released a song she co-wrote with Teitur "Choux Pastry Heart" on her debut album which sold 4 million copies worldwide and debuted at number one in the British charts. In 2008 Teitur collaborated with composer Nico Muhly for the piece "Confessions" for the Holland Baroque Society. "Confessions" is a 14-piece song cycle for baroque instruments and voice. The music accompanies a series of mundane internet videos. "Confessions" was performed four times
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Welford Russell


medical corps. He pursued musical activities in his spare time. He published a "Stabat mater" and eight individual choral pieces, of which his part-song "Who Is at My Window Who?" has been widely performed. The song was also recorded by the Festival Singers of Canada. He also produced a number of anthems and motets which remain unpublished. He wrote a number of art songs, two of which, "The Conqueror" and "Farewell to Arms", were premiered by bass David Mills.
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Piece by Piece (song)


-one hit—a milestone in her musical career. Elsewhere, "Piece by Piece" became a top 40 hit in the music charts of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Scotland. Clarkson later performed a reprise of the "Idol" version on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on March 3, 2016. The "Idol" version was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. One of the five songs she had written by for her seventh studio album, Clarkson co-wrote
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The Mexican (song)


"The Mexican" is a piece of music on the album "First Base" by the 1970s British band Babe Ruth. The song has been compiled, covered and mixed many times and is considered one of the most influential songs in hip hop music culture as well as being popular in early disco clubs such as The Loft. The song was written by Alan Shacklock and recorded along with the rest of the "First Base" album at Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1972. Shacklock wrote the lyrics of the song
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Wayne Kemp


Albums. Kemp was born, as one of nine children, in Greenwood, Arkansas, and raised in Muldrow, Oklahoma. Kemp also co-wrote songs for other artists, including "Love Bug" for George Jones and "One Piece at a Time" for Johnny Cash. Ricky Van Shelton released a cover of Kemp's "I'll Leave This World Loving You" and Emmylou Harris's cover of "Feelin' Single - Seein' Double" became one of her signature songs. Kemp died on March 9,
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John Dowland


on the theme derived from the lute song "Flow my tears". It became one of the best known collections of consort music in his time. His pavane, "Lachrymae antiquae", was also popular in the seventeenth century, and was arranged and used as a theme for variations by many composers. He wrote a lute version of the popular ballad "My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home". Dowland's music often displays the melancholia that was so fashionable in music at that time. He wrote a consort piece with
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I Want It That Way


"Entertainment Weekly" wrote the track "ranks as the bubblegum ballad of the year. It's so likable, it doesn't matter that the group's voices are the sonic equivalent of warm milk." "I Want It That Way" became one of the Backstreet Boys' signature songs and one of the most praised songs by the group. "Rolling Stone" listed Backstreet Boys at number 1 on their "Readers' Poll: The Best Boy Bands of All Time", writing that "the five-piece
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Back in Black (song)


a celebration. He added: "I thought, 'Well no pressure there, then' (laughs). I just wrote what came into my head, which at the time seemed like mumbo, jumbo. 'Nine lives. Cats eyes. Abusing every one of them and running wild.' The boys got it though. They saw Bon's life in that lyric." In a retrospective piece on "Back in Black", "Metal Hammer" magazine hailed the song's riff as one of the greatest
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Possibly Maybe


has been covered at least twelve times by other artists. The song details different stages of a breakup. Björk has said it was "the first unhappy song I wrote… I felt ashamed writing a song that was not giving hope". The melancholic piece was dedicated to her broken relationship with Stéphane Sednaoui, who, curiously, also directed the video. Rumours have persisted that Björk recorded the song in the nude, although this has not been publicly commented on. Björk was sued by British electronic musician Scanner for the uncleared
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Piece by Piece (song)


"Piece by Piece" with frequent collaborator Greg Kurstin, who produced the track. Clarkson has said about writing the song: A lot of the reasons why I wrote "Piece by Piece" was I guess I didn't realize the gravity of the situation until I had a child of my own, and until I experienced love like I do with Brandon (Blackstock) on the daily basis. I guess you don't realize something is missing until you feel it. I can't imagine walking away from my little girl
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Colonial Song


Upon hearing the piece in 1914, Sir Thomas Beecham wrote: "My dear Grainger, you have achieved the almost impossible! You have written the worst piece of modern times". However, "Colonial Song" was received more positively in America. During his service in the United States Army, Grainger re-worked the piece for military band. By the end of the twentieth century, "Colonial Song" had gained acceptance among wind band conductors. Frank Battisti included it in a list of 73 "meritorious" compositions
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Pleiades' Dust


interview with Noisey, Lemay said that "the challenge was totally in the song structure, and that’s where I wanted to put myself into an uncomfortable place. It was the first time I wrote a piece this long, and the number one rule was that I didn’t want it to sound like three or four songs put together. And I think we did it. You can feel movements happening, but you don’t feel like each movement is a song by itself. That was important." "Pleiades'
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Unity is Strength


, the two wrote Unity is Strength as a finale act. The piece was written in a small mountain village in Shaanxi Province, with the lyrics reportedly inspired by the harsh treatment of local peasants by their landlords, and the song was used by the peasants in attempts to appeal for lowered rent. The song quickly became popular throughout Western and Northern China, and was adopted by the Chinese Communist Party as one of their most frequently used pieces both during and after the Chinese Civil War. The song remains a popular piece to
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Give Us Rest


, and you probably won’t want to listen to all of it all the time, but you'll definitely want to explore it all year long." Jono Davies of Louder Than the Music called the album "a piece of musical art" and "a truly stunning piece of music" that "will be enjoyed by everyone who hears it." At Allmusic, James Christopher Monger wrote that the release "finds the sextet firing on all cylinders, offering up an elaborate two-disc swan song that stays true to
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Talk (Yes album)


piece that Rabin intended to use as part of a film score, but chose to use it for the song instead. The piece then moves into a 15/8 time signature. The instrumental section on "Talk" was originally a piece Rabin wrote for orchestra titled "October". Anderson said the song is "as good as anything" the band has done and noted its "remarkable" structure in the "Endless Dream" section, rating it on par with "Close to the Edge" and "Awaken", two
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Carlos Salzedo


Salzedo arranged Manuel de Falla's "Seven Popular Songs" for two harps and voice, specifically for Nina Koschetz to sing with. Using the note-alphabet correspondence he developed for Olga's name piece, Salzedo composed songs for his students as wedding presents. These pieces are called "Wedding Presents". He composed "Diptych, Two Pieces for Right Hand Alone" (1950) for a student who injured her hand. The themes for the pieces were based on her name. In 1953, Salzedo wrote a second concerto
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Pieces of Me (song)


's just real and who's nice — just a good person. So I wrote that about him, and when I finished it, I was so excited and so was he." (The two were reported to have broken up in August 2004, while the song was still high on the charts. They soon got back together before breaking up again in early 2005.) In another interview, she said, "It's a feel good song, it's easy to listen to and every time I perform it
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Maheshinte Prathikaaram


"We used a big piece of meat to produce the sound effects of punches and kicks. It took a long time and a lot of trial and error". Editor Saiju Sreedharan was the film's colourist, correcting the colour grading and developing its digital intermediate. The film's four-song soundtrack and score were composed by Bijibal, who also sang two songs. Lyrics were by Rafeeq Ahammed and Santhosh Varma; Varma wrote the final song, "Cherupunjiri". Bijibal, Vijay Yesudas, Sudeep Kumar, Sangeetha Sreekanth
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Insects in music


of the song are beloved by fans, being played over 1,000 times live in concert. Dave Matthews himself once declared, "This song is our anthem." The Irish folk singer Sinéad Lohan included the song "Bee In The Bottle" on her 1995 album "Who Do You Think I Am". Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote "Flight of the Bumblebee" as an orchestral interlude for his opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", composed in 1899–1900. The piece closes Act III, Tableau 1, during which
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Conor Mitchell


song he wrote entitled "What Kind of Life Is This, Masha?". He split the new song competition prize with Gwenyth Herbert's "Lovely London Town". In 2012, he was commissioned by the London Gay Men's Chorus for a piece to mark the choir's 21st anniversary. With book written by Mark Ravenhill, the piece, entitled "Shadow Time", explores the evolution of mentalities in respect of homosexuality in the lifetime of the Chorus. The piece will be premiered at the Royal Festival Hall,
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Liability (song)


, placing at number 42 and 62, respectively. The song was ranked the 81st greatest song of 2017 by Australian alternative music station Triple J. Lorde performed "Liability" for the first time on "Saturday Night Live". She sang the song with Antonoff, next to a piano while wearing a white bridal veil. Both Lorde and Antonoff brought several pieces to place on the piano to feel like when they initially wrote the song. Several of the pieces included a set of candles, Lorrie Moore's short story collection "
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End of the Century


autograph sessions, interviews, etc. The title "Danny Says" refers to the band's tour manager Danny Fields giving the members instructions, schedules, and demands. According to Joey, the ballad was inspired by Lou Reed, who had released the songs "Candy Says" and "Caroline Says". Joey's brother Mickey Leigh called the song a "masterpiece" and said it "remains one of the most captivatingly beautiful songs I've ever heard." Dee Dee wrote the next piece, "Chinese Rock"
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Lee Hays


. (Together the two men later wrote, perhaps Hays' best song, "Wasn't That a Time?") Under Lowenfels' influence, Hays also began to write modernist poems, one of which was published in "Poetry" Magazine in 1940. He also had pieces based on Arkansas folklore published in "The Nation". Publication of these pieces led to his forming a friendship with another "Nation" contributor, Millard Lampell. Arriving in New York, Hays and Lampell became roommates. They were soon joined
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I Can't Make You Love Me


arena. The song was rewritten many times before being finalized, months later. "We wrote, most every week, in Mike's basement," Shamblin told Peter Cooper in an interview with the Nashville Tennessean. "And we'd worked on this song for more than six months. One day, he said, 'Come up to the living room,' where his piano was. He sat down and started playing this melody, and it was one of the most moving pieces of music I'd heard. I
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle


everyone got what they deserved. Brecht wrote a number of 'songs' as part of the piece, and one of its main characters is called the "Singer". In 1944 the production was scored by Paul Dessau. Though there is no officially published score, the show is generally played with original music and songs performed by the cast. Many composers have created unique original scores for "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". One score performed regularly is by American composer Mark Nichols, who based his music on traditional Georgian folk
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Lady Jewelpet


. The series uses two pieces of theme music, one opening theme and one ending theme. The opening song is titled "Your Love" by M-Three while the ending song is titled "Run with U" by Fairies. The Opening theme single was officially released on July 30, 2014. A manga adaptation by Mako Morie was serialized in Shogakukan's Pucchigumi magazine from April 2014 to March 2015. A musical, titled , officially debut at Sanrio Puroland in July 2014. Toru Hosokawa, who wrote the TV drama
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Second Suite in F for Military Band


composers at the time) in folk music, and wrote many pieces based on folk tunes. He provided piano accompaniments in 1909 to 16 songs collected by Dr George Barnet Gardiner, for publication in Folk Songs from Hampshire, a volume in Cecil Sharp's County Songs series. He was taken with them and incorporated several into this suite (he later made choral arrangements of several, including ones he had already used in the suite). His contemporary and friend Ralph Vaughan Williams later based his own "Folk Song Suite" on
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Going for the One


with the song's chord sequences on piano and also wrote the initial vocal melody, which Anderson took a liking to and wrote words for: the chords were later developed further in certain sections by Howe. White also wrote the section where the drums incorporate the tympani towards the end. The opening minutes of the track became one of Howe's favourite pieces of music by the band. "Parallels" was part of a collection of songs that Squire had written for his solo album "Fish Out of Water" (1975)
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Ur So Gay


"emo-bashing anthem that's either horribly homophobic, a sly piece of social commentary or, possibly, both." The "Tampa Bay Times" wrote that the "boyfriend-skewering... isn't homophobic, but it does pummel straight guys who can't handle her edge." Some critics, however, conclude the song is homophobic. Ugo.com says the song settles for "catchphrase-homophobia" while AllMusic describes the lyrics as "gay-baiting". The video was directed by Walter May. In the video
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Unbroken (Stan Walker song)


and Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" (2007). "Unbroken" was recorded at Artisan Studios in Birmingham, England, and Phil Tan mixed the record at Soapbox Studios, Atlanta, Georgia. Walker was honoured by the opportunity to record a piece of Tedder's work. Walker told the "Daily Telegraph", "It is a privilege for me to record a song by the guy who wrote 'Halo' for Beyoncé and 'Bleeding Love' for Leona. He's the man, one of the best
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Lightning (song)


." Another positive reception came from Digital Spy's Lewis Corner, who rated it four stars out of five and wrote that "[...] The five-piece croon over a cool 'n' catchy melody more addictive than snacking on a tube of Pringles in front of the telly." [...] "The results are strikingly similar; once you pop, you shamelessly can't stop no matter how much you try." The band performed the song live for the first time during the results show of the
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She's My Girl


Gary Bonner. The piece is considered to be one of the more experimental pieces from The Turtles. For instance, the song begins with theming and lyrics inspired from jazz, moves into a pop music refrain, and later shifts into time. It is also considered to be part of the movement in psychedelic music. White Whale Records worked with a filming company headed by John Urie, who agreed to produce a 16mm music video for the song featuring the band. Filming for the music video took three days' time.
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Xenomania


ruin the moment", waited weeks to write the song's lyrics; they wrote the song in seven minutes. Higgins said, "We knew that was the piece of music Girls Aloud needed to announce them as a supergroup in this country, so we knew we couldn't drop the ball melodically or lyrically." "The Promise" became Girls Aloud's first non-cover version number-one single since "Sound of the Underground". The single became the fastest selling single of 2008 at the time. "
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Rose's Turn


said the song is her favorite piece from the show: "It's a terrifying piece of music because it's one of the two most famous arias in the musical comedy lexicon, the other being 'Soliloquy' from "Carousel."" "Chicago" magazine described it as "show-stopping." Philippine Daily Inquirer described it as a "blazing finale." The Hour named it a "showstopping tour-de-force." The Spokesman-Review wrote the song "may not match the other songs
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Colonial Song


Colonial Song is a musical composition written by Australian composer Percy Grainger. Although Grainger created versions for different types of musical ensembles, its most commonly used version today is for concert band. Grainger initially wrote "Colonial Song" in 1911 as a piano piece as a gift to his mother, Rose. Of his piece, Grainger wrote that it was "an attempt to write a melody as typical of the Australian countryside as Stephen Foster's exquisite songs are typical of rural America". Although the piece seems to have been intended
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Cadenet (troubadour)


Cadenet (c. 1160 – c. 1235) was a Provençal troubadour ("trobador") who lived and wrote at the court of Raymond VI of Toulouse and eventually made a reputation in Spain. Of his twenty-five surviving songs, twenty-one (or twenty-three) are "cansos", with one "alba", one "partimen", one "pastorela", and one religious piece represented. Two of his melodies survive. During Cadenet's childhood Raymond V of Toulouse and Bertrand I of Forcalquier
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Ain't No Rest for the Wicked


of his who at the time was a drug dealer. When Shultz asked him why he dealt drugs, the co-worker told him that "There's no rest for the wicked." Shultz was a plumber at the time, and said that he wrote the lyrics on a piece of drywall which he found while working at his co-worker's house. The song appeared in a commercial for the TNT series "Leverage"; in the 2010 film "The Bounty Hunter"; in an episode of "The
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Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far


in 2002, return to pop music in 2003, and sixth Grammy win in 2005. The book is divided into an introduction, a career index, and four themed sections, each named after one of Grant's songs: "Every Road", "Heirlooms", "Lead Me On", and "Takes a Little Time". Inside each are various stories from Grant's life, original poems, small black and white pictures, and lyrics to songs that Grant personally wrote, usually related to or inspired by
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In This Moment


ideas and pieces and parts into the studio and wrote each song in the studio, one at a time. All the other albums we had the songs formatted and together already. So we're going to do the same thing again. We're gonna try to replicate the magic of "Blood" and try to take the style and sound we had for "Blood" and just do it bigger and better while still keeping true to that same vibe. That's our sound. We feel like we found something and
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Pieces of a Real Heart


write honest songs. Hammitt once said in an interview, "These songs are pieces of the deepest part of who we are. Since we wrote 'I'm Not Alright' for our album "The Face of Love", we have always strived to be really honest with what we are thinking and how it pertains to our faith and draws us closer to the Lord. I think now more than ever these songs are a great picture of what is going on underneath the surface with us." Adapted from the liner
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One Piece at a Time (album)


, Rosanne Cash prior to the launch of her own solo career. On "Let There Be Country", the album's opening track, Cash shares songwriting credit with Shel Silverstein, who had written Cash's biggest hit up to this time, "A Boy Named Sue", which like "One Piece at a Time" was a comedic song. "Go On Blues" was later re-recorded during the American Recordings session with Rick Rubin. It was not on the album but part of the promo single for
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America Drinks & Goes Home


"Brown Shoes Don't Make It". Zappa's title for the entire piece was "Suite No. 2: The M.O.I. American Pageant (2nd in a Series of Underground Oratorios)". The piece was performed many times during the Mothers of Invention residency at the Garrick Theater in Greenwich Village in New York City during 1967. Zappa wrote the song to parody his experiences playing with drunken lounge music bands in the early 1960s. The song combines a trite love song lyric with an equally cliched melody. In a radio
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Born in the U.S.A. (song)


, who saw Springsteen as a modern-day Horatio Alger story. Conservative columnist George Will, after attending a show, published a piece on September 13, 1984, titled "A Yankee Doodle Springsteen," in which he praised Springsteen as an exemplar of classic American values. He wrote: "I have not got a clue about Springsteen's politics, if any, but flags get waved at his concerts while he sings songs about hard times. He is no whiner, and the recitation of closed factories and other problems
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Johnny Cash


" (about a brave Native American World War II veteran who was mistreated upon his return to Arizona), and his own compositions, "What Is Truth" and "Man in Black". Cash wrote that the reasons for denying Nixon's song choices were not knowing them and having fairly short notice to rehearse them, rather than any political reason. However, Cash added, even if Nixon's office had given Cash enough time to learn and rehearse the songs, their choice of pieces that conveyed "antihippie and antiblack
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Phir Wahi (song)


Phir Wahi is a Hindi song from the soundtrack of Jagga Jasoos. The song is written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, composed by Pritam and sung by Arijit Singh. The song's music video is pictured upon actor Ranbir Kapoor. The songs music video focuses upon actor Ranbir Kapoor who searches his missing father. Indian Express in its review wrote- "The song is about relationships that have betrayed or lost with time passing by, but one fine day you just happen to cross through it". Hindustan Times in their review wrote - "
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer


one side of an LP containing songs by each member and a fourth of group material. Much of the album was recorded with an orchestral accompaniment; Emerson's side consists of his 18-minute, three-movement "Piano Concerto No. 1". Lake contributes five songs he co-wrote with Sinfield, and Palmer's includes two covers of classical pieces by Sergei Prokofiev and Bach. One of the two group tracks, "Fanfare for the Common Man", is a cover of the same-titled orchestral piece by Aaron
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Wonderwall Music


film to 'spot-in' the music with the watch. I wrote the timings down in my book, then I'd go to [the recording studio], make up a piece, record it." As with his songs for the Beatles over this period, including "Within You Without You" and "Blue Jay Way", he composed mainly on keyboard instruments such as piano or organ, rather than guitar. In addition to the Indian pieces, Harrison wrote and arranged selections in Western musical styles.
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Charles "Bud" Dant


a slower version was written out by Dant and Carmichael. The piece was recorded with Carmichael and others at the Gennett Records studio in Richmond, Indiana. In 1929, Mitchell Parish wrote lyrics to the song. Stardust, an idiosyncratic melody in medium tempo, became an American standard, and is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 1,500 total recordings. Dant graduated Indiana and played with big bands of the 1940s in the East Coast, notably Herby Kaye, who was briefly married to Dorothy Lamour
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María Grever


Grever wrote more than 800 songs — the majority of them boleros — and her popularity reached audiences in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She was said to have possessed perfect pitch and wrote most of her songs in one key. Her first piece of music, a Christmas carol, was composed when she was four years old. She wrote her first song when she was 18 years old, "A Una Ola" (To a Wave), and it sold three million copies. In 1920 she began
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Charles-Valentin Alkan


Le vent (The Wind)", which was at one time the only piece by the composer to figure regularly in recitals. These works, however, did not meet with the approval of Robert Schumann, who wrote: "One is startled by such false, such unnatural art ... the last [piece, titled "Morte (Death)", is] a crabbed waste, overgrown with brush and weeds ... nothing is to be found but black on black". Ronald Smith, however, finds in this latter
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Picking Up the Pieces (Paloma Faith song)


suggested he meet Faith. Faith wrote and recorded "Fall To Grace" in London. On 29 February 2012, it was announced "Picking Up the Pieces" would serve as the first single from the album. Faith described the song as being about "...the issues of being in a relationship with someone who is still recovering from a previous relationship with another person. It is a song about self-doubt and insecurity." She added that she was excited to introduce her new sound to the world. Co-
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Piece by Piece (Kelly Clarkson album)


your life—or people in your life—who can be a shoulder to cry on." Co-writing with Clarkson, Kurstin also produced the ninth song, "Tightrope". Originally penned as a simple piano ballad, Clarkson wrote the song about feelings people are unable to prove by themselves in a relationship; Kurstin added an orchestral element with its production. Produced by Halbert, the tenth track, "War Paint", was written by Julia Michaels, Joleen Belle, and Sir Nolan. Clarkson described the song
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Take You High


song "When Doves Cry" by Prince. "Take You High" was first released by RCA Records as the fourth and penultimate promotional single from "Piece by Piece" on February 26, 2015. Clarkson revealed the reason for its promotional release was for listeners to make a wider option in assessing the album as a whole, not just based on its lead single, "Heartbeat Song". "Take You High" is a midtempo EDM gospel track produced by Jesse Shatkin, who also co-wrote the song with
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Ayla Brown


physical or emotional challenges. She first became involved in Songs of Love in 2010 when she covered the organization in a piece she did for CBS' "The Early Show". Brown wrote a song for Hannah Lowe, a six-year-old cancer patient who was featured in the piece, and has since also written a song for Collin Lecey. Brown has also tried her hand at musical theatre. After twice turning down offers to star as the narrator in the Reagle Players' production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and
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Thespis (opera)


the music "was arranged and composed by Mr A. S. Sullivan (the first verb was not in the bills as it ought to have been)". One critic thought that the duet for Sparkeion and Nicemis, "Here far away from all the world", was one of the "single best items of the piece". In 1873, the arranger Joseph Rummell (who had arranged Sullivan's "Merchant of Venice" score for the piano) wrote to Sullivan, asking about the song, with a view to
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Femme Fatale (Britney Spears album)


hear [you] ask) where B's at in all this? I surely don't know. [D]id a song [with] Klas Ahlund, who wrote 'Piece of Me'. And is killa. But not on ["Femme Fatale"] apparently. But a good song is a good song regardless." Music writers noted electropop and dance-pop styles on "Femme Fatale". Music journalist Jody Rosen wrote of the album, "Conceptually it's straightforward: a party record packed with sex
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Christoph Nichelmann


time of changing musical styles, from Baroque to the early classical period. Best known are his piano concertos in three-movements (fast-slow-fast). He also wrote eighteen concertos, one overture, and three symphonies, as well as choral works and other piano pieces. His twenty-two songs are early examples of the "Berliner Liederschule", or Berlin school of songs. His serenata "Il sogno di Scipione" was known in the 18th century. Nichelmann's treatise "Die Melodie, nach ihrem
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An Argument with Myself


listeners of his status as one indie music’s best storytellers." Robert Christgau wrote in "MSN Music", "The first three songs on this EP are strong, the fourth misty, the fifth sweet and slight, but all know melody and all fill out a portrait of a young man your daughter should only bring home to mother." AllMusic editor Tim Sendra commented that the songs are "a bit too sophisticated, as it’s the first time Lekman's records have sounded played by professionals instead of pieced together
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Everybody Needs Somebody to Love


took a piece of your songs—a piece of the publishing—but in the end, you didn't have any pieces left. Even now, I'm still struggling to get the publishing, the royalties, and that'll never happen." Jerry Wexler maintained in 2002: "I know Solomon is upset about that, and I wrote him a long letter explaining how we wrote the song together and that he has always gotten his share of the royalties. I know that because I get royalty checks for the song
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Musical notation


notes. is a compound time type of time signature). Many other time signatures exist, such as , , , , , and so on. Many short classical music pieces from the classical era and songs from traditional music and popular music are in one time signature for much or all of the piece. Music from the Romantic music era and later, particularly contemporary classical music and rock music genres such as progressive rock and the hardcore punk subgenre mathcore, may use mixed meter; songs or pieces change from one meter to
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Bert Potter (composer)


Potter were copyrighted; in 1912 there were two more, and in 1917 a single, final one. He wrote piano pieces and songs, the latter usually to his own texts. Most pieces are uptempo rags, marches, and novelties; at least one piano solo, “A swell affair” (1906), is considered a minor classic and has been included in recent ragtime anthologies. Several early songs were intended for blackface performance in vaudeville or revues. Potter had a lively, if conventional, sense of rhythm;
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Songs, sketches and monologues of Dan Leno


, Leno purchased songs from the foremost music hall writers and composers, including Harry King, who wrote many of Leno's early successes, Harry Dacre and Joseph Tabrar. From 1890, George Le Brunn composed the music to many of Leno's songs and sketches, including "The Detective", "My Old Man", "Chimney on Fire", "The Fasting Man", "The Jap", "All Through a Little Piece of Bacon" and "The Detective Camera". Le Brunn also wrote the
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34 (song)


"#34" is a song by Dave Matthews Band, featured as an instrumental piece on their debut album, "Under the Table and Dreaming". The song was inspired by and written for Miguel Valdez, a percussionist who collaborated with the band in 1992 and died due to hepatitis in 1993. Dave Matthews co-wrote the song with LeRoi Moore, Carter Beauford and Haines Fullerton, another collaborator, who later took his own life in September 1996. On the album, the song is "hidden" as track
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Jubilee (musical)


enthusiasm, wore royal robes or a one-piece bathing suit with equal aplomb, sang a bit, and danced with every sign of enjoyment." It was considered "one of the great theatrical events of the 1930s." Of the Broadway opening (on October 12, 1935), Brooks Atkinson ("The New York Times") wrote that the show "is a rapturous masquerade...Each of the guilds that produce our luxurious musical shows has shared equally in the general excellence of an upper-class song-
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Preludes (Rachmaninoff)


Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote a number of preludes, all for solo piano. His most important works in this genre are the 24 preludes that cover all 24 major and minor keys. These were, however, written and published at different times, not as a unified set. Of all the composers who wrote sets of 24 pieces in all the keys, Rachmaninoff seems to be the only one who did not originally set out with such a goal in mind. He also wrote three other individual preludes. Rachmaninoff's first attempt at a
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Srđan Marjanović


album was produced by Marjanović and Rade Radivojević (who also wrote the music for one track). In 1989, he released the album "Ako jednom puknem ja" ("If I Go into Pieces One Day"), on which one side consisted of his songs, and the second of covers of ballads by Yugoslav artists: "Selma" (originally performed by Bijelo Dugme), "Ti samo budi dovoljno daleko" ("Just Remain Far Enough", originally performed by Generacija 5), "Zašto"
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Talk (Coldplay song)


creativity, delving straight into mid-'70s krautrock, and piecing together a gorgeous pop song." Bud Scoppa of "Paste" magazine wrote: "'Talk' stands out as an anthem in an album full of them." Dan Tallis of the BBC noted that the track was "fantastic" and "positively gargantuan". Jonathan Keefe of Slant magazine wrote: "'Talk' is given one of the album's most memorable melodies, but its impact is reduced by the song's structure, in which the lead guitar
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Compositions for Guitar by Takashi Yoshimatsu


It was written as a subset of pieces that the composer wrote for classical guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita, originally composed for the piano or harp. The composer describes the work as an "envocation of a lonely fish and a white view". The sheet music for these pieces was issued together in "Yoshimatsu Collected Works Vol. 2 for Guitar". Both pieces are in written in 2/4 timing and played in standard tuning. "4 Little Dream Songs" is a series of 4 pieces for solo classical guitar, composed by Takashi
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The Signature Series


end of each episode, a musical excerpt is played, while the names of the composers who wrote the music featured in the episode are mentioned. On SoundCloud, the pieces in each episode are timed such that when the piece changes, the pop-up comment identifies the piece being played, together with the composer who wrote the music. Each key has an image, with its name, its nickname, and a person (or animal, in the case of C minor) whose personality is representative of that key on
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John E. Tullidge


1863. In 1864, Tullidge was baptized a member of the LDS Church. In October 1863, he wrote the first known piece of music criticism in Utah. His piece was considered far too critical towards musicians, and the Deseret News did not publish another one of his works of music criticism for several years. During his time in Utah, Tullidge wrote many scores for the Salt Lake theatre orchestra. Tullidge edited the first LDS hymnbook to contain both words and music. Tullidge's daughter Jane married Alexander C. Pyper, who
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Xiao Youmei


curriculum (and Chinese ancient music history), and also wrote the textbooks himself. Xiao Youmei also was one of China's first composers to master Western compositional techniques and incorporate them in his works. In his lifetime, he wrote over 100 pieces. These include piano works, orchestral pieces, violin and other string pieces, and choral works. Among his notable students is the famous Chinese composer and music educator , who once studied harmony with him. He wrote many textbooks, including ones for organ (1924), piano
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Orlande de Lassus


to be one of the high-water marks of Renaissance polyphony, ranking alongside the two settings of the same text by Josquin des Prez. Among his other liturgical compositions are hymns, canticles (including over 100 Magnificats), responsories for Holy Week, Passions, Lamentations, and some independent pieces for major feasts. Lassus wrote in all the prominent secular forms of the time. In the preface to his collection of German songs, Lassus lists his secular works: Italian madrigals and French chansons, German and Dutch songs. He
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Songs Without Words


new. Mendelssohn's sister Fanny wrote a number of similar pieces (though not so entitled) and, according to some music historians, she may have helped inspire the concept. The title "Song Without Words" seems to have been Felix Mendelssohn's own invention. In 1828, Fanny wrote in a letter "My birthday was celebrated very nicely ... Felix has given me a 'song without words' for my album (he has lately written several beautiful ones)." Mendelssohn himself resisted attempts to interpret the "Songs
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The Jungle Book (2016 film)


India", "The Hindu", "India Today", "The Indian Express", and "The Economic Times". The film also had its share of criticism with most reviewers criticizing the inconsistent tone of the film and the director's indecision to stick to one vision. "The New York Times"s Manohla Dargis was less enthusiastic. Sam C. Mac of "Slant Magazine" wrote, "Jon Favreau draws heavily on his film's animated predecessor for plot, characterizations, songs, and set pieces, but does
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