Operas Based on Novels
Carmen, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin and more began as novels or novellas. What each composer took from the book, and what had to go...
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Where music and literature meet: albums named after books, songs that borrow from poems and novels, operas built on novels, and the story behind Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights. Each piece names the book behind the music.
Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” and the Novel Behind It
Kate Bush wrote it as a teenager, singing as Cathy's ghost at the window. Which scene of Emily Brontë's novel the song comes from,...
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Songs That Quote Literature
Songwriters who lift from poems and novels, sometimes openly and sometimes not. The source behind each song, named.
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Albums Named After Books
Records that borrow a title, a character or a whole plot from literature. What each album takes from the book, and how closely it...
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