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Encyclopedia > A Sense of Wonder
A Sense of Wonder
Album cover
Album by Van Morrison
Released 1985
Recorded 1983
Genre Celtic soul, Rock and roll
Length 43:08
Label Mercury
Producer(s) Van Morrison
Professional reviews
Van Morrison chronology
Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
(1983)
A Sense of Wonder
(1985)
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
(1986)

A Sense of Wonder is a Van Morrison Album released in 1985. Image File history File links VanMorrisonASenseOfWonder. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... George Ivan Van Morrison (born August 31, 1945) is an Irish singer and songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... This article is about the year. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Genres of Cuban music and other popular music A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in producing, manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and sometimes video recordings (especially music videos), on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Mercury Records was a record label founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams and Arthur Talmadge. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: Rating stars. ... This article is about the music magazine. ... George Ivan Van Morrison (born August 31, 1945) is an Irish singer and songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... Inarticulate Speech of the Heart is an album by Irish singer-songwriter/musician Van Morrison, released in 1983. ... No Guru, No Method, No Teacher is an album by Irish musician Van Morrison, released in 1986. ... George Ivan Van Morrison (born August 31, 1945) is an Irish singer and songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... See also: 1984 in music, other events of 1985, 1986 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 28 - Various artists, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon...


Track Listing

All songs by Van Morrison unless stated otherwise George Ivan Van Morrison (born August 31, 1945) is an Irish singer and songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ...

  1. "Tore Down A La Rimbaud" - 4:09
  2. "Ancient of Days" - 3:37
  3. "Evening Meditation" - 4:13
  4. "The Master's Eyes" - 4:01
  5. "What Would I Do" (Ray Charles) - 5:10
  6. "A Sense of Wonder" - 7:09
  7. "Boffyflow and Spike" - 3:06
  8. "If You Only Knew" (Mose Allison) - 2:56
  9. "Let the Slave" (Blake, Mitchell, Westbrook) - 5:26
  10. "A New Kind of Man" - 3:21

Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004). ... Mose Allison (b. ... William Blake (1807) William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. ... Adrian Mitchell (born 1932) is a British poet and dramatist. ...

Personnel

A guitar is a stringed musical instrument. ... A grand piano A piano is a keyboard instrument, widely used in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, and also as a convenient aid to composing and rehearsal. ... The term synthesiser is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... A guitar is a stringed musical instrument. ... Bass guitars typically have four strings instead of six as found on regular guitars. ... The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the western musical tradition, with a rich history connected with the Christian religion and civic ceremony. ... The trumpet is the highest brass instrument in register other than the cornet, its above the horn, trombone, euphonium, and tuba. ... Pee Wee Ellis is an American saxophonist. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... Percussion instruments are music instruments played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped, hence the percussive name. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Moving Hearts was an Irish folk-rock band, formed in about 1980 by seven established musicians. ...

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America) An example of a Billboard Magazine. ...

Year Chart Position
1985 The Billboard 200 61

Album - UK Album Chart (United Kingdom) The UK Albums Chart is a chart of the sales positions of albums in the United Kingdom. ...

Year Chart Position
1985 UK Album Chart 25

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1985 "Tore Down A La Rimbaud" Mainstream Rock Tracks 19

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At its heart, a sense of wonder is a vibrant awareness of natural and spiritual mysteries capable of inspiring humans to reach for the best rather than the worst.
Instead of driving wonder from the classroom and replacing it with ho-hum-drum routines and heavily scripted learning exercises, we should make wonder central to schooling and learning, lighting fires in each child so she or he will be eager to come to school, primed to learn and hungry for words, meaning and knowledge.
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Wonder was alive and well in the work of some of the late eighteenth and early nineteen century artists who accompanied the first European voyages of exploration to Alaska.
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The wonder he expressed in the early work following his arrival in 1904 would often be recycled in his later years, and too infrequently supplanted by freshly experienced scenes, but it is important to acknowledge his legacy.
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