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Song of Songs
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song
song relatively brief, simple vocal composition, usually a setting of a poetic text, often strophic, for accompanied solo voice . The song literature of Western music embodies two broad classifications— folk song and art song. Apart from the recently discovered cuneiform tablet containing... Read more |
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Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon Song of Songs, or Canticles, book of the Bible, 22d in the order of the Authorized Version. Although traditionally ascribed to King Solomon, many scholars date it as late as the 3d cent. BC It is in form a collection of love poems. Its preservation in the Jewish and... Read more |
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folk song
folk song music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in recent studies. These assume that the germ of a folk melody is produced by an individual and altered in transmission into a group-fashioned expression.... Read more |
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Songs of Innocence
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Servant songs
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Song Qingling
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Song Shan
Song Shan , mountain, N central Henan prov., China; one of the five sacred mountains of China. It is famous for the Shaolin Temple, where generations of Buddhist monks have practiced martial arts. Bodhidharma, an Indian Buddhist master, is said to have arrived at the temple during the 6th cent. and... Read more |
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The Song of Hiawatha
Hiawatha, The Song of, narrative poem by Longfellow in unrhymed trochaic tetrameter, published in 1855. Its novel and facile meter has led to many parodies and imitations. The meter derives from the Finnish epic Kalevala, which the poem resembles in spirit as well as in several striking passages.... Read more |
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Emperor of China Song Taizu
Zhao Kuang-yin Founder of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuang-yin (927-976) ended the practice of frequent military coups, which had exhausted China for more than half a century, and successfully re-established the "civilian empire." Zhao Kuang-yin, known to history as Song Tai Zu (implying... Read more |
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song
song • noun 1. a beautiful song synonyms: air, strain, ditty, melody, tune, number, track, anthem, hymn, chanty, chantey, ballad, aria. 2. the song of the birds synonyms: call(s), chirping, cheeping, peeping... |
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Bible
...Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Tobit Judith Esther 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees 3 Maccabees Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon/Song of Songs Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus/Sirach Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Baruch Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos... |
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psalm
psalm • noun synonyms: hymn, sacred song, song of praise, paean, religious song, chant, anthem. |
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hymn
hymn • noun singing the old familiar hymnssynonyms: religious song, song of praise, anthem, canticle, chorale, psalm, paean, carol; spiritual. |
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ballad
ballad • noun synonyms: folk song, song, lay, ditty. |
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glum
...and doleful implies a mournful sadness (the child's doleful expression as his parents left). Someone or something described as lugubrious is mournful or gloomy in an affected or exaggerated way (lugubrious songs about lost love). |
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look
...mind, keep an eye on, keep safe, be responsible for, protect; nurse, babysit, house-sit. look back on those songs really make me look back on my college dayssynonyms: reflect on, think back to, remember, recall, reminisce about... |
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practice
practice • verb 1. he practiced the songs every day synonyms: rehearse, run through, go over/through, work on/at; polish, perfect. 2. the performers were practicing... |
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medley
medley • noun a medley of Beatles songs | a vegetable medleysynonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixture, mélange, variety, mixed bag, grab bag, mix, collection, selection... |
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recitation
...performance. 2. a recitation of her life story synonyms: account, description, narration, narrative, story. 3. songs and recitations synonyms: reading, passage; poem, verse, monologue. |
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Song Forms
...to highlight how each song section works, because these are songs that most people recognize...and "The Crawdad Song." Blues songs often use this verse...first bridge (the whole song is ABABCABCB). Some songs are built only from verses... |
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Song Finder: A Title Index to 32,000 Popular Songs in Collections, 1854-1992.
...learned the purpose of a song index is to provide references to the location of songs in collections, giving access...valuable addition to the song index genre for popular songs. Gary Lynn Ferguson's Song Finder provides more extensive... |
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Songs of a Wayfarer.1 When lights go rolling.1 Hope the Hornblower.1 Sea...
...be categorized as "art" songs; then there are a clutch of songs that lift the art song into an intensely personal...the varying moods of the songs. CD 1 includes Ireland...and tremendously popular song, Sea Fever, which was originally... |
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Song Discussion as Music Psychotherapy
...therapist pre-selects the song for discussion rather than one...client or clients choose the song (or piece of music), either...experience, such as may occur in song choice (singing the client's preferred songs) (Noone, 2008; Martin... |
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Songs within songs. (The songfinder: a reader-assisted song search service).
...listener oscillates between song world and real world...shanties and other work songs in their original settings, song world and real world...type of interleaving of song world and real world...particularly fond of is where songs figure in other songs... |
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Song in female hylorchilus wrens.(Short Communications)
...the male's songs, with no apparent pattern. Indeed, some male songs in a duet do not overlap female song. It may be that all female songs in a duet are overlapped by male song, but our sample is small; overlap would suggest mate-guarding... |
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Songs of '07 Meld Impressive Year of Music
...Time Mr. Wolf?" (Soundbite of song, "Never Fall In Love Again...because I feel like a lot of the best songs are sad songs. It's a slow waltz, with mostly...people on vocals. (Soundbite of song, "Never Fall In Love Again... |
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Song of Songs
Song of Songs. By J. CHERYL EXUM. The Old Testament...39.95. For such a small book, the Song of Songs has always received a prodigious amount...there were also: Richard S. Hess, Song of Songs (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament... |
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Song of Songs.(Book review)
Song of Songs. By J. CHERYL EXUM. The Old Testament...39.95. For such a small book, the Song of Songs has always received a prodigious amount...there were also: Richard S. Hess, Song of Songs (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament... |
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Song of Songs. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review)
Song of Songs, by Tremper Longman III. New International...balanced, and thorough commentary on the Song of Songs. Though it appears in a Christian evangelical...used Ariel and Ghana Bloch's book The Song of Songs: A New Translation with an Introduction... |
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