MeFi Music songs tagged with poetry

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal by greekphilosophy

greekphilosophy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:11:55 -0800

Eakins Vocal Consort of Philadelphia performs "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal." Text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Setting by Allen McCullough.

The Nightmare by cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:42:22 -0800

I had this dream, woke a wrote his poem. A spoken word piece. The cat in the background was my cat going nuts while I was recording. She hates it when I play this track. It freaks her out.

Evening Star (E. A. Poe) by cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:28:47 -0800

A spoken word piece I did sometime back. I used a tascam audio interface, my edirol pcr-30 keyboard, my mics, Garageband 2 and a lot of bit crunching.

stopping by woods by edlundart

edlundart — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:20 -0800

Back in either middle school or high school, in music class, I wrote my very first melody with a classmate named Mathias Knutzen. The assignment was to take a text from one of our books and create a song with it. We chose Robert Frost's poem and came up with this pseudo-jazzy tune. I always liked it, so I kept the "digital chord sheet" around and played it from time to time. More than 15 years later, here now is a brand new recorded version -- complete with brushed drums and falsetto background vocals.

Like a Rock by Jenny is Crafty

Jenny is Crafty — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:36:09 -0800

My mom wrote this poem in 1968 and I am compiling it for her as a song for her Christmas present this year.

My Jude by umbú

umbú — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:09:41 -0800

An arrangement of a great poem by headspace.

Crossing Over by Randy Curtis

Randy Curtis — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:28:16 -0800

A short poem spoken with keyboard, percussion, and guitar Darkness falls in the middle of the day, We look to the sky and lord we pray, Darkness grows near, And all those who are dear, Floods the lands with tears, Not a moment to soon, For all men are destin for doom, Come cross over, All are welcome

At the Open Mic by cortex

cortex — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:00:08 -0800

A rough structural demo of one of the songs I've written this month. Catchy, upbeat reflection on the simpler, softer times of my highschool musical upbringing. Imagine this with a dozen people clapping and singing along. And maybe an awesome guitar solo. I've still got three weeks, after all.

Rocketships by nonmyopicdave

nonmyopicdave — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:39:48 -0800

This is more AlienPop (see http://music.metafilter.com/mefi/687) wherein my Macintosh sings, in a duet with itself, the following poem (inside) from Leonard Nemoy's book "Warmed By Love" to the tune of a song generated by intelligent music software Band-In-A-Box.

A Complicated Man by thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:57:36 -0800

Pretend poetry soundscape using minimal sampling

St. Nicholas as a Boy by ba

ba — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:53:45 -0800

I was thinking about my friend Nicholas and Xmas, and this squirted out. "Drums" are an Acid loop, "bass" and "horns" are WX5 wind controller driving a VL70m. A/D via Layla, mixed in Cool Edit Pro on win95.

Complex Reasons by csimpkins

csimpkins — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:46:30 -0800

A hauntingly mellow groove highlighted by Sylvia Plath's "Mushrooms" as performed by the poet herself.