"Aura Lee" is an American Civil War song about a maiden, a simple sentimental ballad with the highly traditional theme of a beautiful young woman with shining hair. The tune was later used for the Elvis Presley song "Love Me Tender".
"Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh" (Come, sweet death, come, blessed rest) is a song for solo voice and basso continuo from the 69 Sacred Songs and Arias that Johann Sebastian Bach contributed to Georg Christian Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch (BWV 478). Bach, by means of melody and harmony, expresses the...
The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in...
