Song Definition–noun | 1. | a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, esp. one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad. | | 2. | a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung: Mendelssohn's “Songs without Words.” | | 3. | poetical composition; poetry. | | 4. | the art or act of singing; vocal music. | | 5. | something that is sung. | | 6. | an elaborate vocal signal produced by an animal, as the distinctive sounds produced by certain birds, frogs, etc., in a courtship or territorial display. | —Idiom | 7. | for a song, at a very low price; as a bargain: We bought the rug for a song when the estate was auctioned off. | |
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Lyric Definition–adjective Also, lyr⋅i⋅cal. | 1. | (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and esp. the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry. | | 2. | pertaining to or writing lyric poetry: a lyric poet. | | 3. | characterized by or expressing spontaneous, direct feeling: a lyric song; lyric writing. | | 4. | pertaining to, rendered by, or employing singing. | | 5. | (of a voice) relatively light of volume and modest in range: a lyric soprano. | | 6. | pertaining, adapted, or sung to the lyre, or composing poems to be sung to the lyre: ancient Greek lyric odes. | –noun | 8. | Often, lyrics. the words of a song. | |
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a verse or poem that is, or supposedly is, susceptible of being sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument (in ancient times, usually a lyre) or that expresses intense personal emotion in a ...
song
piece of music performed by a single voice, with or without instrumental accompaniment. Works for several voices are called duets, trios, etc.; larger ensembles sing choral music. Speech and music ...
Igor's Campaign, The Song of
masterpiece of Old Russian literature, an account of the unsuccessful campaign in 1185 of Prince Igor of Novgorod-Seversky against the Polovtsy (Kipchak, or Cumans). As in the great French epic The ...
hymn
strictly, a song used in Christian worship, usually sung by the congregation and characteristically having a metrical, strophic (stanzaic), non-biblical text. Similar songs, also generally termed ...
literature
Lyric poetry never gets far from its origins, except that some of its finest examples-Medieval Latin, Provencal, Middle High German, Middle French, Renaissance-which today are only read, were ...
English literature
Virtually every Elizabethan poet tried his hand at the lyric; few, if any, failed to write one that is not still anthologized today. The fashion for interspersing prose fiction with lyric interludes, ...
Greek literature
Hesiod, unlike Homer, told something of himself, and the same is true of the lyric poets. Except for Pindar and Bacchylides at the end of the Classical period, only fragments of the works of these ...
folk literature
Singing of some kind is almost universal, and it is probable that where there are no reports of it the information is simply missing. Folk song implies the use of music, and the musical tradition ...
Gershwin, George
For the remainder of his career, Gershwin devoted himself to both popular songs and orchestral compositions. His Broadway shows from the 1920s and '30s featured numerous songs that became standards: ...
China
The Song was an era of great change in most facets of Chinese life. Some of these developments were the outgrowths of earlier patterns, while others were largely born under that dynasty. These ...
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