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epithalamium
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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epithalamium (Lat., Eng. epithalamion). A marriage song or wedding hymn. Vaughan Williams's cantata
Epithalamion (1957) has words selected from Spenser's poem of that name.
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The last pages of Emma: Austen's epithalamium. (Miscellany).(Jane Austen's ode to marriage)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...to the poetic genre of the epithalamium, or marriage poem, despite...fact that it is prose. The epithalamium is usually thought of as...variants of the word--"epithalamium" and "epithalamia" are the Latin terms, with...
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Epithalamium Beate Virginis Marie
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Epithalamium Beate Virginis Marie. By Giovanni di Garlandia. Testo critico, traduzione e commento a cura di Antonio Saiani. [Accademia...
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Epithalamium.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 12/22/2002; ; 699 words
; Epithalamium. 1. The revolutionary challenges Previous answers seeking light Without passion, Sacrificing nation For the sake of mother...
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Epithalamium:.(for Alexia and Jurgen)(Poem)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 7/1/2006; ; 447 words
; EPITHALAMIUM (for Alexia and Jurgen) The bride travels along village lanes, past gateways of lilac, purple blossoms dropping perfume. Her...
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EPITHALAMIUM
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 6/19/1999; 282 words
; St George's Chapel, Windsor One day, the tissue-light through stained glass falls on vacant stone, on gaping pews, on air made up of nothing more than atom storms which whiten silently, then disappear. The next, all this is charged with brimming life. A people-river floods those empty pews, and
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An epithalamium
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/2/2004; 256 words
; I can see Andrew Motion's problem in finding a suitable rhyme for Camilla as he prepares some stanzas to mark the possible announcement of the marriage of Mrs Parker Bowles to the Prince of Wales (Mandrake, April 25). Perhaps he could use the followingThe wedding of Charles and Camilla Took place
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Kingdom: An Epithalamium.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 9/22/2001; ; 549 words
; Who is it that cometh up from a spring shut, a fountain sealed, terrible as an army with banners (Your name, or 'you') Sought him, but found him not, because the sun hath looked upon me with one chain of his neck (Voice, or sound of his approach) I will go up to the palm tree which hath a most
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Stochastic is all song (an epithalamium for a and c).(Poem)
Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly; 12/22/2002; ; 559 words
; All is rhythm, even that we call random; and rhythm begets both melody and harmony. The universe is a symphony, if only we'd pause to listen. Hippokrites The world is a risk we take, an improbability as large as eternity, as ultimately inexplicable . and dangerous as the act of love. Each moment --
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Music for a while. If music be the food of love. Ah! how sweet it is to love. An Epithalamium. Sweeter than roses. From rosy bow'rs. Not all my torments. Crown the altar. Dido and Aeneas: When I am laid to earth/3 Early Songs. Apparition
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; PURCELL Music for a while. If music be the food of love. Ah! how sweet it Is to love. An Eplthalamium. Sweeter than roses. From rosy bow'rs. Not all my torments. Crown the altar. Dido and Aeneas: When I am laid to earth. CRUMB 3 Early Songs. Apparition * Christine Schafer (sop); Eric Schneider (pn)
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Marriage, celibacy, and ritual in Robert Herrick's 'Hesperides.'
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...seventeenth-century English epithalamium. Dubrow argues that the epithalamium was an especially significant...society,"(8) and the epithalamium allowed poets both to explore...instability. Herrick's epithalamia, Dubrow observes, are...
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epithalamium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
epithalamium , song or poem written...form of pastoral , the epithalamium usually tells of the...share the poet's joy. Epithalamiums were written in ancient...Edmund Spenser's "Epithalamium" (1595), written...
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Pizzetti, Ildebrando
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Prelude to Another Day) (1952); hp. conc. (1958–60).CHORUS & ORCH.: Agamemnon (1931); Epithalamium (1939); Cantico di Gloria ‘Attollite Portas ’ for 3 ch., 24 wind instr., 2 pf., perc. (1948...
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prothalamium
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
prothalamium a song or poem celebrating a forthcoming wedding, from Prothalamion (1596), title of a poem by Edmund Spenser, on the pattern of epithalamium .
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Marriage
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...custom of marrying only within one’s tribe or similar social unit. —endogamic, endogamous , adj. epithalamium, epithalamy a song or poem composed and performed in honor of a bride or groom. exogamy the practice of marrying only outside...
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John Donne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...love and as putting in a favorable light love in which they are complementary. He also composed verse letters, elegies, epithalamia, and epigrams; they were published after his death as Songs and Sonnets. Donne partook in the Earl of Essex's expeditions...
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