Philip Glass song cycle "Book of Longing"
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Philip Glass’s "Book of Longing" is a song cycle that sets Leonard Cohen’s poetry and drawings to music, blending minimalist composition with lyrical, meditative texts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Book of Longing" song cycle by Philip Glass | 1 |
| Philip Glass song cycle "Book of Longing" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4867970 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip Glass song cycle "Book of Longing" Context triple: [Book of Longing, inspired, Philip Glass song cycle "Book of Longing"]
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Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers
Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers is a large-scale, genre-blending stage work by Leonard Bernstein that combines classical, theatrical, and popular music elements in a dramatic setting of the Roman Catholic Mass.
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Song Cycle – 1967 album
Song Cycle is an experimental 1967 debut album by American composer Van Dyke Parks, noted for its intricate orchestral arrangements, avant-garde pop style, and dense, allusive lyrics.
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Symphony of Psalms
Symphony of Psalms is a choral-orchestral composition by Igor Stravinsky that blends neoclassical style with liturgical texts from the biblical Psalms.
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D.
The Kraus Project
The Kraus Project is Jonathan Franzen’s annotated and translated collection of essays by the acerbic Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, exploring language, media, and modernity.
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E.
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms is a choral-orchestral work composed in 1930 that sets Latin psalm texts in a stark, neoclassical style.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip Glass song cycle "Book of Longing" Target entity description: Philip Glass’s "Book of Longing" is a song cycle that sets Leonard Cohen’s poetry and drawings to music, blending minimalist composition with lyrical, meditative texts.
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A.
Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers
Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers is a large-scale, genre-blending stage work by Leonard Bernstein that combines classical, theatrical, and popular music elements in a dramatic setting of the Roman Catholic Mass.
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B.
Song Cycle – 1967 album
Song Cycle is an experimental 1967 debut album by American composer Van Dyke Parks, noted for its intricate orchestral arrangements, avant-garde pop style, and dense, allusive lyrics.
-
C.
Symphony of Psalms
Symphony of Psalms is a choral-orchestral composition by Igor Stravinsky that blends neoclassical style with liturgical texts from the biblical Psalms.
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D.
The Kraus Project
The Kraus Project is Jonathan Franzen’s annotated and translated collection of essays by the acerbic Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, exploring language, media, and modernity.
-
E.
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms is a choral-orchestral work composed in 1930 that sets Latin psalm texts in a stark, neoclassical style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical composition
ⓘ
song cycle ⓘ |
| artForm | music ⓘ |
| authorOfText | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Leonard Cohen's drawings
ⓘ
Leonard Cohen's poetry ⓘ
linked to:
Leonard Cohen
|
| collaboratedWith | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Luminato Festival ⓘ |
| composer | Philip Glass ⓘ |
| creator | Philip Glass ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary classical music
ⓘ
minimalism ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
keyboards
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ strings ⓘ voices ⓘ winds ⓘ |
| hasLyrics | yes ⓘ |
| hasPart |
instrumental interludes
ⓘ
songs ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Leonard Cohen's life and work ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| librettist | Leonard Cohen ⓘ |
| movementCount | multiple sections ⓘ |
| notableCollaborator |
Leonard Cohen
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Philip Glass Ensemble ⓘ |
| orchestration | ensemble with voices and chamber group ⓘ |
| performerType |
chamber ensemble
ⓘ
chorus ⓘ vocal soloists ⓘ |
| period | 21st century music ⓘ |
| premiereCity | Toronto ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Luminato Festival ⓘ |
| premiereYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| style | minimalist ⓘ |
| subjectOf | concert performances worldwide ⓘ |
| textSourceType |
drawings captions
ⓘ
poetry ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
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desire ⓘ love ⓘ meditation ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| titleSharesWith | Leonard Cohen's poetry collection "Book of Longing" ⓘ |
| usesTextFrom |
Leonard Cohen's book "Book of Longing"
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linked to:
poem "The Book of Longing"
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Philip Glass song cycle "Book of Longing" Description of subject: Philip Glass’s "Book of Longing" is a song cycle that sets Leonard Cohen’s poetry and drawings to music, blending minimalist composition with lyrical, meditative texts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Philip Glass song cycle "Book of Longing"