- "The
Anacreontic Song", also
known by its
incipit "To
Anacreon in Heaven", was the
official song of the
Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's...
- same
themes and used the
Anacreontic meter. In
modern poetry,
Anacreontics are
short lyrical pieces that keep the
Anacreontic subject matter but not the...
- best
known for
writing the
original lyrics to "The
Anacreontic Song". The
music from the
Anacreontic Song
would be set as the
music for "The Star Spangled...
- The
Anacreontic Society was a po****r gentlemen's club of
amateur musicians in
London founded in the mid-18th century.
These barristers, doctors, and...
-
Johann Christian Bach.
Smith is best
known for
writing the
music for "The
Anacreontic Song",
which became the tune for the
American patriotic song "The Star-Spangled...
-
Stafford Smith for the
Anacreontic Society, a
social club in London. Smith's song, "To
Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The
Anacreontic Song"), with
various lyrics...
- as Aphrodite, Eros and Dionysus, are not so very
unlike what we call "
Anacreontic"
poetry as to make the
contrast of
style as
great as the word
might seem...
-
gives is not
completely galliambic but in a
metre which consists of two
anacreontics without catalexis.
George C****oboscus (9th
century AD?), in a discussion...
- the
Harvard m****cript book
where it is
headed "An
Anacreontic",
dated "January, 1820".
Anacreontics are
poems written in the
style of the
ancient Gr****...
-
crying to his
mother Venus". Theocritus,
Idyll 19. It also
appears in
Anacreontic poetry. Jane Kingsley-Smith,
Cupid in
Early Modern Literature and Culture...
