- Poems about Music
(poets.org)
ex:
"And far into the night he crooned that tune.
The stars went out and so did the moon.
The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head..."
From "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
- Limerick Poems About Music (limerickpoemsandpoets.com)
ex : The Mermaids Ball
" The mermaids ball music still lingers
Swordfish Fred and his shoal of sweet singers
Had a whale of a time
On the octopus slime
Caressed by their salty fish-fingers"
- The Poetry and Music Connection (musiced.about.com)
- Songs Inspired by Poems
- ex: "Hail to the Chief" - The title of this song came from a poem, "The Lady of the Lake," written by Sir Walter Scott...
- Poems Set to Music
- ex: Claude DeBussy's "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" was inspired by the poem of Stéphane Mallarmé.
- Songs Inspired by Literary Works (musiced.about.com)
- ex: Paul Anka - His song "My Way" was inspired by the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus.
-
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN - Robert Browning (indiana.edu)
"And even spoiled the women's chats,
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking...
`Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?
``Anything like the sound of a rat
``Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!''...
And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,
You heard as if an army muttered;
And the muttering grew to a grumbling;
And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
And out of the houses the rats came tumbling..."
- to illustrate noises
- with the VIDEO : Part 1 (YouTube)
+ Part 2
-
The Cat and the Fiddle - a Nursery Rhyme (bygosh.com)
-
“Soundings of Things Done”: The Poetry and Poetics of Sound in the Romantic Ear and Era
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
(rc.umd.edu)
-
When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard... - a joke (michaelclark.name)
- Quotes About Music (goodreads.com)
- Music Quotes from Shakespeare's Plays (musiced.about.com)
