Editing Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (section)

===Music===
* The British composer [[Liza Lehmann]] set selections from FitzGerald's translation to music in the song cycle "In a Persian Garden" for four voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and piano in 1896. 
* The British composer [[Granville Bantock]] produced a choral setting of FitzGerald's translation 1906–1909.
* The American composer [[Arthur Foote]] composed a five movement piano cycle, "Five Poems After Omar Khayyam", each piece inspired by a quatrain of Fitzgerald's translation. He later rewrote these pieces as an orchestral suite, "Four Character Pieces after the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám".
* Using FitzGerald's translation, the Armenian-American composer [[Alan Hovhaness]] set a dozen of the quatrains to music. This work, ''The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'', Op. 308, calls for narrator, orchestra, and solo [[accordion]].
* The Rubaiyat have also influenced Arabic music. In 1950 the Egyptian singer [[Umm Kulthum]] recorded a song entitled "Rubaiyat Al-Khayyam".
* The [[Comedian Harmonists]] in "[[Wochenend und Sonnenschein]]".
* [[Woody Guthrie]] recorded an excerpt of the Rubaiyat set to music that was released on ''[[Hard Travelin' (The Asch Recordings Vol. 3)]]''.
* [[The Human Instinct]]'s album ''[[Pins In It]]'' (1971) opens with a track called "Pinzinet", the lyrics of which are based on the Rubaiyat.
* [[Elektra Records]] released a compilation album named ''[[Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary|Rubáiyát]]'' in 1990 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Elektra Records record label.
* [[Coldcut]] produced an album with a song called "Rubaiyat" on their album ''Let us Play!'' (1997).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000003S7Z/ |title=Let Us Play |website=Amazon.com |year=1997 |access-date=11 April 2013}}</ref> 
* Jazz-soul harpist [[Dorothy Ashby]]'s 1970 album ''[[The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby]]'' quotes from several of the poem's verses.
* The famed "skull and roses" poster for a [[Grateful Dead]] show at the Avalon Ballroom done by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse was adapted from Edmund J. Sullivan's illustrations for ''The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam''.<ref>[[Joel Selvin|Selvin, Joel]]. "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/03/BAQS111UJ4.DTL Alton Kelley, psychedelic poster creator, dies]". ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''. 3 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-25.</ref>
* The work influenced the 2004 concept album ''The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam'' by the Italian group {{Interlanguage link multi|Milagro acustico|it}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.valley-entertainment.com/the-rubaiyyat-of-omar-khayyam.html |title=The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam |work=Valley Entertainment-Hearts of Space Records |access-date=23 June 2010}}</ref>
* The song "Beautiful Feeling" by Australian singer-songwriter [[Paul Kelly (Australian musician)|Paul Kelly]], on 2004 album ''[[Ways & Means (album)|Ways and Means]]'', includes the lyrics "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thee, lying on a blanket underneath that big old spreading tree." This song was used as the theme song in the 2004 Australian television drama, [[Fireflies (TV series)|Fireflies]].
* The 1953 Robert Wright-George Forrest musical [[Kismet (musical)|Kismet]], adapted from a play by Edward Knoblock, contains a non-singing character, Omar (it is implied that he is the poet himself), who recites some of the couplets in the FitzGerald translation.
* The record label Ruby Yacht gets its namesake, in part, from the Rubáiyát of Omar [[Milo (musician)|Khayyám.]]
*[[Milo (musician)|milo's]] album ''budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies'' features a couple of references to the Rubaiyat.
* Adolphus Hailstork's a cappella choral work, "Seven Songs of the Rubaiyat" uses the Fitzgerald translation