Words and music have long been intertwined, in the form of literary references to music, words as music (poetry), and in musical settings of poetry (to name but a few). Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines composition as "an intellectual creation...a...
Photograph by *L*u*z*a*, available under a Creative Commons license The composers highlighted here represent some of the major schools of song: German Romantic lieder, French modernism, and 20th-century English-language art song. Within the page dedicated...
(1913-1976) The Scallop, Aldeburgh beach, Suffolk. Photograph by Terrence Davies, available under a Creative Commons license Maggi Hambling's sculptural tribute to Britten takes its text, "I hear those voices that will not be drowned," from Peter Grimes...
(1876-1951) Cover of "Farewell, Fair Harvard" (1897), courtesy Music Division, Library of Congress, 12/842 While an undergraduate at Harvard, John Alden Carpenter composed the music for several Hasty Pudding shows, including Branglebrink. Among his...
(1900-1990) Photo of composer Aaron Copland from the CBS television/New York Philharmonic "Young Peoples' Concerts" series. Aaron Copland can be considered the public face of mid-20th century American classical music; his interest in national styles of...
(1862-1918) Claude Debussy. Photographic print by Em. Crevaux, Paris, of portrait by J.E. Blanche, ca. 1907-1920 Courtesy George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-97414