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song
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a short musical composition with words
Examples "a successful musical must have at least three good songs" Used in print (The New York Times,...)A crowd of 1400 is expected for the ceremonies , which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit , dance and song . (Chicago Daily Tribune...)Certainly not in Orchestra_hall where he has played countless recitals , and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago_Symphony_orchestra , playing the Brahms_Concerto with his own slashing , demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high , pale , pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music , or forever finds it closed . There was about that song something incandescent , for this Brahms was Milstein at white_heat . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)This features the marching songs of several nations , recorded as though the various national bands were marching by your reviewing_stand . The Percussive Twenties ( SP 44006 ) stirs pleasant memories with well-known songs of that day , and Johnny_Keating 's Kombo gives_forth with tingling jazz in Percussive_Moods ( SP 44005 ) . |
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[ noun ] (music) the act of singing
Synonyms Examples "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score , and he manages at_times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)With shout and slow dance , with tears and song , with scream and contortion , the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering , wailing , shouting , possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force . |
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[ noun ] the characteristic sound produced by a bird
Examples "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age" Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)The doors of the D train slid shut , and as I dropped into a seat and , exhaling , looked up across the aisle , the whole aviary in my head burst into song . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 3660
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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 2439
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[ noun ] the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy
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