Music
- 13th-15th century: The Play of Daniel from Beauvais Cathedral
- 1745: The oratorio Belshazzar by George Frideric Handel
- 1860: The cantata Belshazzar's Feast. The Fall of Babylon: A Dramatic Cantata in Ten Scenes by Civil War-era songwriter George Frederick Root
- 1906: The incidental music to Hjalmar Procopé's play by Jean Sibelius
- 1931: The choral work Belshazzar's Feast by the English composer William Walton
- 1957: A song by Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two (also covered but unreleased by Bob Dylan & The Band during the 1967 Basement Tapes sessions)
- 1995: Folk duo Paul Sartin (vocals, violin, oboe and whistle) and Paul Hutchinson (accordion). Released 6 albums .
- 1998: The song God's Magic Finger by The Residents, released on the album Wormwood
- 2007: Belsatzar after Heine for Speaking Voice and Cello by Graham Waterhouse
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“O I shall hear skull skull,
Hear your lame music,
Believe music rejects undertaking,
Limps back.”
—Owen Dodson (b. 1914)
“Poetry
Exceeding music must take the place
Of empty heaven and its hymns....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)