This uninhibitedly emotional outpouring seems equally inspired by the music of Strauss's "Salome" and the biblical "Song of Songs."

An adaptation of the biblical Song of Solomon, it consists of eight short sections written in couplets in which King Solomon and an imaginary slave-girl called Saphira engage in amorous dialogue.

Ms. Zall moved with quiet joy through "Poem," a premiere to recorded music by Ernest Bloch that was inspired by the biblical Song of Songs.

The composer has described "Shulamit's Dream," which sets verses from the biblical "Song of Songs," as the "closest I have come to a piece for the theater."

The folk trio Peter Paul and Mary has recorded his version of "Dodi Li," or "I Am My Beloveds," from the biblical Song of Songs.

The piece explores feeling of human yearning and is based upon a single verse from the biblical Solomon's Song of Songs (3:1).

The biblical Song of Solomon does not appear within The Songs of Solomon, hence the name is probably a pun on Rossi's first name (Rikko 1969).

A second, "Song of Songs," includes paintings and sculptures by Heinz Mack interpreting the biblical Song of Solomon; it closes Feb. 13.

Sometime after Bernard of Clairvaux died in 1153, Gilbert was asked to continue Bernard's incomplete series of 86 sermons on the biblical Song of Songs.

Her Das Lied von der Liebe is a book whose graphics illustrate the biblical Song of Songs.