Bringing Poetry to Life through Music

Description

Dr. Wagner has taken some of the greatest poems in the world literature and put them to his original music. Also included are several original songs by Dr. Wagner. This collection of poetry is organized as a book of words and music of approximately 250 pages suitable for use in the home, by cultural groups, by home schooling programs and as supplements for college, university, or high school English Literature classes. The poems take on a new meaning as they explode into music. The same collection of poems that is published as a book is also recorded as a multi-volume set of compact discs. This collection is also available as a live concert played and sung by Dr. Wagner accompanied with his guitar.

The collection of poems with the accompanying music is also available in a 250 page book. This music book includes each poem's history as well as a short biography of the author. For more information about ordering, please see the purchasing page.

Included Works

VOLUME I
Poems of Unknown Author

I Sing of a Maiden -- England 1470
In Praise of Mary -- England 1300
Who is at My Window? -- England 1450
The Bereaved Maid -- England 1450. Poem adapted to an ancient Galic melody
Lord Randal -- England 1200
Thy Enders Nyght -- England 1450
Kay Tutayapi -- Precolumbian poem in Incan, Spanish and English
Mana Pinillayok’ -- Precolumbian poem in Incan, Spanish and English
Paul Jones -- 1779
Yankee Man-O-War -- Revolutionary War Era

VOLUME II

Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936
- If (Listen!)
- Blue Roses
Alfred Noyes, 1792-1822
- The Highwayman
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822
- The Indian Serenade (Listen!)
Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933
- The Gift
- Roses and Rue (Listen!)
- The Falling Star
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849
- The Raven
- The Bells (Listen!)

VOLUME III

Robert Burns, 1759-1796
- Handsome Nell
- In the Character of a Ruined Farmer
- Ploughman's Life
- Red Red Rose
- My Heart's in the Highlands
- Ye Flowery Banks
- What Can a Young Lassie?
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
- It is a Beauteous Evening (Listen!)
- The Solitary Reaper (Listen!)
Richard S. Wagner M.D., 1936
- Just Be Yourself (Listen!)
- She's Katiri Tekawitha
- There is a Tree
- Water My Flowers
- I Met Her on the Mountain
Robert Herrick, 1591-1674
- To Virgins to Make Much of Time
- Cherry Ripe
William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939
- The Ballad of Moll MaGee (Listen!)
- Leda and the Swan

VOLUME IV

Walt Whitman
- O, Captain, My Captain
Herman Melville
- The Martyr
Peter la Farge
- As Long as the Grass Shall Grow
Carl Sandburg
- Lawyers Know Too Much
William Rose Benet
- The Strong Swimmer
Gabriela Mistral
- Yo No Tengo Soledad
Thomas Hood
- The Song of the Shirt
John Masefield
- Sea Fever
- Wanderer's Song
Edwin A. Robinson
- House on the Hill
- Richard Cory
Joyce Kilmer
- Trees

VOLUME V

Haiku
- Basho
- Chiyojo
- Hyajuchi
Stephen Vincent Benet
- Mountain Wipporwill
Nezahualcotl
- Lord of Texcoco
- Xopancuicatl (Aztec)
St. Francis
- Prayer of St. Francis (English, Spanish)
R.S. Wagner M.D.
- The Gospel (Adapted)
- White Christmas Tree

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