POEMS BY BLAKE & OTHER ROMANTICS

William Blake * William Wordsworth * Gordon Lord Byron * Samuel Taylor Coleridge

ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION AND MUSIC BY J. M. SCHROEDER

PAGE GUIDE

Song

Introduction (I)

Introduction (E)

Spring

Human Abstract

The Tyger

Chimney Sweeper

Little Vagabond

London / Holy Thursday

The Solitary Reaper

She Walks in Beauty

When We Two Parted

* Blake *

* Blake *

* Blake *

* Wordsworth * Byron *

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S. T. Coleridge

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Romantic Poetry
Set To Music

POETRY AND MUSIC
NOT ONLY IN THE CLASSROOM



impressions from
performances

BIOGRAPHIES
THE POETS



their lives
in catchwords

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INTRODUCTION TO THIS PAGE

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This website is addressed to lovers of English poetry in general, and to teachers and students of English all over the world. I hope that you will find a lot of interesting material here.

POEMS BY BLAKE AND OTHER ROMANTICS is selected poetry by William Blake (1757-1827), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) & Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824), which I have analysed and set to music. In my programme Romantic Poems Set To Music, I present my work in the form of music and recitals in "candle-light lectures" of a most entertaining kind.

To Coleridge's Kubla Khan I have dedicated a website of its own, with comprehensive text analysis, graphic illustrations and a symphony playable in MIDI format.

I have given performances and lectures on “English poetry set to music” in further teacher training (Regierungsbezirk Muenster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany). I work as a college teacher. I am a winner of the International Music Contest A Song For Peace, Rome 1999-2002 > LINKS

Juergen Matthias Schroeder, Duelmen (D) 2002

quicktime SAMPLES - OVERVIEW

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Below are some short samples of my "musical versions" of the Romantic poems set to music. They were part of a live programme and were recorded on CD in 1997.

On the individual pages presenting detailed analysis of the various poems you will find full-length music samples.

Click on the start buttons below to get an impression of each song. This requires QUICKTIME PLAYER to be installed on your computer. If you cannot see any quicktime player buttons below you have to activate JAVA-SCRIPT in your browser settings.

   Song (W. Blake)

   Spring (W. Blake)

   The Tyger (W. Blake)

   The Chimney Sweeper (W Blake solo version)

   The Chimney Sweeper (W. Blake)

   The Little Vagabond (W. Blake)

   London (W. Blake)

   Holy Thursday (W. Blake)

   The Solitary Reaper (W Wordsworth)

   She walks in beauty (Lord Byron)

   When we two parted (Lord Byron)


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MATERIAL
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Romantic Poetry
Set To Music

LINKS

PAGES ON ROMANTIC POETRY / AUTHOR'S PAGES

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Romanticism/Poets/Poetry

> ROMANTIC LINKS... * home pages and texts, Michael Gamer, Un. of Pennsylvania
> ROMANTICISM * URL list, Laura Mandell, Miami University
> THE ROMANTICS PAGE Gary Harrison, University of New Mexico
> ROMANTIC POETRY & PROSE: * bibliography, Nicholas Halmi, Stanford/Washington
> ROMANTICISM ON THE NET * Online journal
> WILLIAM BLAKE ARCHIVE * Blake's engravings, texts. "The premier Blake archive"
> WILLIAMBLAKE.COM * cybersongs of innocence, creative page by Matthew Gilbert
> SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE PAGE * texts,chronology, glossary Un. of Virginia
> S. T. COLERIDGE * Marjorie Tiefert's SUPPLEMENT to STC archive > poems > Kubla Khan

> KUBLA KHAN PAGE * Kubla Khan - analysis, illustrations, music

other pages

> A SONG FOR PEACE * contest, jury, winners, international initiative
> SONGS OF LOVE, PEACE AND TOLERANCE * international musicians' initiative for Love, Peace & Tolerance & personal contributions
> TOLERANZ (TOLERANCE) * song project with D Skepisi & others - 3rd winner of German IGBCE Trade Union's competition
> SONGCOLLECTIONS.COM/SCHROEDER * ballads by JM Schroeder and N Schroeder-Corhsen in English, German, Italian
> AMERICA * thoughts & songs about America
> SCHIFF AHOI * comedy & songs mainly in German, pictures & lyrics