A Dark But Quite Progressive Puzzle. What's the musical solution to this riddle + cryptogram?

Question

Well, my previous few puzzles have been too hard, so I've done my best to avoid that this time. If this one is too easy then let me know! :)

This is a multi-part puzzle.

We start with a riddle:

I am thought and I am memory;
I create the world; I free men and I free women.

Black wings by the pallid tower,
I sit at the head of Pallas.

I am Bran and I am Bartholomew;
I protect Vincent and I protect Damien.

This is the first riddle I've ever written so please be kind! I've tried to make it fairly easy to get the basic idea but fairly hard to track down all the references (a full answer will need to explain all the references).

The answer from that riddle will lead you to a classic and well-known written work which is available free online in many places. You can use that to solve this cryptogram:

1;4;1
17;3;1
18;1;1
2;6;1
15;1;1
18;5;1
14;4;1
13;6;1
15;4;1
7;3;1
11;1;1
16;1;1
16;1;2
16;1;3
7;5;25
16;5;-1
11;3;1
13;1;1
5;4;1
6;4;1
9;4;1
14;2;1
15;6;9
15;6;10
15;6;11
15;6;12
15;6;13

The cryptogram's answer will give you a piece of music; that piece of music is the answer to the puzzle.

Have fun! :)

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Thank you @luxmi12, with an assist from @Len, for the excellent answer! I've marked it as solved because, well, basically you solved it, but there are a few clues still unaccounted-for, so if anyone else wants to chip in with a solution to them then go right ahead!

They are:

• Title: 'dark' (quite obvious), 'progressive'

• "I free men and I free women"

• "pallid tower" (specifically?)

• "Bran": not intended as a reference to Game of Thrones, although the scriptwriters there pretty clearly had the same idea in mind as I did.

Answer 1

Well I have the poem!

"The Raven", by Edgar Allen Poe

Here is why;

I am thought and I am memory;

In Norse mythology there are two Ravens called Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory) that bring information to Odin

I create the world; I free men and I free women.

There exists a creation story from the Inuit, in which a Raven creates the world. He then travels around his new world and discovers man, whom he feeds and teaches. Soon after a woman came to be and he cared for her as well, as well as all their children

Black wings by the pallid tower

There are lots of Ravens around the tower of London? Also "pallid" appears in the poem

I sit at the head of Pallas.

In the poem the Raven perches on a bust of Pallas above the chamber door

I am Bran and I am Bartholomew;

In "Game of Thrones" (spoilers!) Bran is visited by a three eyed Raven who he later discovers represents himself. In the Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" (also known as "'The Simpsons 'Halloween Special") the Raven poem is acted out with Bart as the Raven

I protect Vincent and I protect Damien.

Saint Vincent of Saragossa was said to have his body protected by ravens from being devoured by vultures, until his followers could recover the body. In The Omen, the Raven was a servant of Satan who watched over Damien Thorn

I'm definitely stuck on the cryptogram though... I thought I had it but the -1 stumped me, then later the 25 in the third column got me again. I shall keep trying :)

EDIT

As for the cryptogram..

As @Len found out below, the trick is to use cryptography on the poem. The first column is the verse number, the second is the line number and the third is the character. No spaces or punctuation count.

Therefore, the answer is...

"Alan Parsons Project The Raven"

Although there's still some riddle clues I'm working on...

Answer 2

I'd like to try my hand at the remaining clues.

• Bran:

  Brân the Blessed, literally "Blessed Crow" (can also be translated as raven), a Welsh mythological character

• Pallid Tower:

  A legend says that John Flamsteed once complained of ravens flying about and blocking the view from his telescope in the White Tower.

• "Dark"

  Simply the raven's dark coloring.

• "Progressive"

  May be a reference to Raven's Progressive Matrices, a visual puzzle in which subjects are asked to select the missing item from a series.

• Free men and women

  This may be in keeping with the origin story theme, referencing the native myth in which a raven coaxes the first humans out of a clamshell.

Answer 3

Continuing with the excellent work by luxmi12, I think the answer is:

Alan Parsons Project The Raven assuming there are two errors in the cryptogram numbers which actually produce: alanparsonsprojecttlesraven

Method:

Apply the cryptogram numbers to the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The numbers indicate the verse;line;character. Characters do not include spaces or punctuation.