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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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folk-song
...Scandinavian-based songs from Orkney and Shetland...boundaries between folk-song and art music are often...such as the Folk-Songs from Somerset. In 1898 an English Folk Song Society was formed...arranger of folk-songs. The traditional use of ... |
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sea songs
...was always a working song, and never sung on...job of work.The songs sung on board ship...They were home-made songs which usually adopted...an already existing song which was known by most...greatest writer of sea songs of this type was ... |
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marching songs
marching songs have been sung in...variation of a Civil War song, ‘ John Brown's Body...Soviet marching songs, on the other hand...their own marching song. It was written...from a Salvation Army song—became second only...produced a stream of ... |
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Songs of Innocence
Songs of Innocence, a collection of...issued a further volume, entitled Songs of Innocence and of Experience...to which he added the ‘Songs of Experience’, some of them...Sweeper’ and ‘Nurse's Song’) bearing identical titles... |
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Desert Song, The
Desert Song, The (1926), an operetta by Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein...with new eyes when he reveals he was the leader. Notable songs: The Desert Song; One Alone; The Riff Song; Romance. Suggested by the real‐life exploits of a... |
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They're Playing Our Song
They're Playing Our Song (1979), a musical comedy...into a bumpy romance. Notable songs: If He Really Knew Me; They're Playing Our Song; Just for Tonight. The musical...Even the score, of only nine songs (many regularly reprised... |
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folk song
folk song, a song, origin usually unknown, that is handed down orally from generation to generation and often...an immense increase of activity in the collection, transcription, and publication of folk songs (see Sharp, C.). |
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Songs of Experience
Songs of Experience, see Songs of Innocence. |
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Song of Norway
Song of Norway (1944), an operetta by Milton Lazarus (book), Robert Wright...and so returns to Norway and his beloved Nina to write his music. Notable songs: Freddy and His Fiddle; Now!; Strange Music; Hill of Dreams. Edwin Lester... |
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songs
songs, see sea songs; shanty. |
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song
...performer. Today a ‘song recital’ generally...evening of Eng. songs (mus. settings of...uttered some sort of song, and the origins of folk-songs are beyond discovery...world of ‘popular song’, from 19th-cent. mus.-hall songs ... |
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Song of Songs
Song of Songs. One of the five scrolls of the Hebrew scriptures. In the hagiographa (Writings), it follows Job and precedes Ruth. Song of Songs consists of a series of love songs of an entirely secular nature. It... |
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Servant songs
Servant songs. Poems about a faithful servant of the Lord...in the Hebrew Book of Isaiah. The Servant songs are located in Isaiah 42. 1–4; 49. 1–6; 50. 4–9; 52. 13–53. 12. The songs either have been interpreted collectively... |
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Song of Songs (REB, NJB)
Song of Songs (REB, NJB) or Song of Solomon (AV, NRSV) A poetic book in the OT attributed to Solomon...interpretation in Judaism and Christianity has been to regard the Song's erotic vocabulary as allegorical: it is said to express the... |
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Songs of Travel
Songs of Travel. Song-cycle for v. and pf. by Vaughan Williams...poems by Robert Louis Stevenson from his Songs of Travel. F.p. London 1904. 1...slope. All often sung separately. 9th song not perf. until 1960. F.p. as cycle... |
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Wesendonck Songs, 5
Wesendonck Songs, 5 (Fünf Gedichte von Mathilde Wesendonck). Set of 5 songs for v. and pf. by Wagner to poems written by his...Träume arr. by Wagner for vn. and orch. Titles of songs are 1. Der Engel (The Angel) 1857, 2. Stehe still... |
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Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama. The popular short collection of secular poem-songs composed by the controversial and tragic Dalai...1706). Though the theme of many of these songs is of a romantic nature, some believe they... |
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Songs for Dov
Songs for Dov. Cycle of songs for ten. and small orch. (with 6 perc. players) by Tippett, 1970, the texts written by himself. Based on songs for the character Dov in Tippett's 3rd opera The Knot Garden. F... |
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Songs my Mother Taught Me
Songs my Mother Taught Me. Song for high v. and pf. by Dvořák, to words by Heyduk, being No.4 of his Gipsy Songs, Op.55 (1880). |
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Songs and Dances of Death
Songs and Dances of Death (Pesni i plyaski smerti). Cycle of 4 songs for v. and pf. by Mussorgsky, 1875–7, to poems...are: 1. Trepak, Death and the Peasant. 2. Cradle Song, the Child breathes gently. 3. Death the Serenader... |
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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 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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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 ... |
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Song's pink plane takes flight for breast cancer awareness; Song adds pink to...
...San Juan and Nassau, Bahamas. Song operates a fleet of Boeing 757s...leather, all-coach seats. All Song aircraft are equipped with personal...programming from more than 1,600 songs and a suite of video games. Song also offers a complete on-board... |
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Song gives customers another reason to sink their feet into the sand with...
...will be available on Songs May through November menus. Last year, Song introduced an In...latest addition to Songs wide array of on...cocktails created for Song by Gerber, in addition...summer. On May 1, Song debuted new coast...Airport ... |
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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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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 ... |
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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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Song's New Nonstop Coast-to-Coast Service Between New York and Los Angeles...
...inventory of more than 1,600 songs; 10 movies available...against one another. Song also offers a comprehensive...September 2, 2005. All Song aircraft are equipped...from more than 1,600 songs and 11 video games. Song also offers a ... |
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Song Gives Customers Another Reason To Sink Their Feet Into the Sand With...
...from other air service. Song's in-flight entertainment...individual play lists of 32 songs at their seat from an inventory of more than 1,600 songs; 10 movies available on...compete against one another. Song also offers daily nonstop... |
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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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