These items, said to have been revealed to the 12th-century hermit St. Godric in a dream, are the oldest surviving songs in the English language, according to the program notes.
About half of these use music adapted from Sullivan's other works; the others use new music for all but the surviving songs, or, in a few cases, re-compose those as well.
Auden would definitely have wanted to follow Cervantes, as in the surviving "Song of the Knight of the Mirrors": Look!
The spiritual world of the Estonians is known largely from their epic poem Kalevipoeg, a 19th-century compilation of an extensive body of surviving folk song and shamanic chant.
Jean Vaillant, Solage, Jacob de Senleches, and other composers included imitations of bird calls and the sounds of nature in their virelais; and to judge from the number of surviving sources, the songs achieved exceptional popularity.
Surviving hymns and songs from the Old Kingdom include the morning greeting hymns to the gods in their respective temples.
Her surviving repertoire of songs, filled with strong, emotive lyrics and inflections of true passion for jazz music, garnered the singer not only a wide range of awards but also the admiration of millions of fans, charmed by Winehouse's big-hearted personality and quick wit.
That was real killer-inside-me stuff; "Sugar Baby" was what Boggs called his lover, who you weren't sure would survive the song.
It has a good share of single-and-surviving songs, from the sarcastic "He's Gonna Change" — no, he's not — to the defiant "Better in a Black Dress," where the singer spurns a wedding gown in favor of party clothes, to "Cardboard Boxes," which wonders, "How did we get so out of love?," to the kiss-off of "So Long": "Take the sugarcoating off the facts/Take two steps forward, don't look back".
On Wednesday evening the superb a cappella men's choir Chanticleer celebrated a less heralded occasion: the 250th anniversary of "My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free," said to be the earliest surviving American secular song.
Yet those albums were heavy on songs about the throes of love, and this one is laden with songs about surviving emotional catastrophes and reaching reconciliation.
