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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
Laura Osnes

Meaning of "song cycle" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SONG CYCLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SONG CYCLE

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Song cycle is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SONG CYCLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Song cycle

A song cycle is a group, or cycle, of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist. Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a persona common to the songs, or even, as in Robert Schumann's second Liederkreis, by the atmospheric setting of the forest. The unity of the cycle is often underlined by musical means, famously in the return in the last song of the opening music in Ludwig van Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte. The term originated to describe cycles of art songs in classical music, and has been extended to apply to popular music.

Definition of song cycle in the English dictionary

The definition of song cycle in the dictionary is any of several groups of songs written by composers during and after the Romantic period, each series employing texts, usually by one poet, relating a story or grouped around a central motif.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SONG CYCLE

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song and dance
Song Coi
song form
song hit
Song Koi
Song of Solomon
Song of Songs
song sheet
song sparrow
song thrush
song without words
songbird
songbook
songcraft
songfest
songful
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SONG CYCLE

bicycle
business cycle
cell cycle
cycle
freecycle
heterocycle
Krebs cycle
life cycle
menstrual cycle
monocycle
motorcycle
nitrogen cycle
racing bicycle
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stationary bicycle
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Synonyms and antonyms of song cycle in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «song cycle» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

单曲循环
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ciclo de canciones
570 millions of speakers

English

song cycle
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गीत चक्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دورة أغنية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вокальный цикл
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ciclo de canções
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গান চক্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cycle de chansons
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kitaran lagu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Liederzyklus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

連作歌曲
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노래 주기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Siklus lagu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chu kỳ bài hát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாடல் சுழற்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गाणे चक्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Şarkı döngüsü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ciclo di canzoni
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cykl pieśni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вокальний цикл
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ciclu cântec
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κύκλο τραγουδιών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lied siklus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sångcykel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sangsyklus
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about song cycle

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Laura Osnes
Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SONG CYCLE»

Discover the use of song cycle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to song cycle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Song Cycle
Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --
Laura Tunbridge, 2010
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Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle
An intelligent take on a classic left-field album from the late 1960s, including original interviews with all the key players including Van Dyke Parks. >
Richard Henderson, 2010
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Arachne: a dramatic song cycle for soprano solo with crotale
A dramatic song cycle for soprano solo in four movements. The accompaniment is for crotale (or any other suitable percussion instrument), and the performer can add stage movement, costume, and lighting to create theatrical effect.
Hilary Tann, Jordan Smith, 2002
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Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
The Lieder cycle (song cycle), a grouping of individually complete songs linked by one of several unifying factors, flourished in the Romantic era. The genre resists precise definition, since the distinction between a song cycle and a song ...
Christopher John Murray, 2004
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The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
As the nineteenth century approached, however, cyclic forms in all the arts acquired greater significance, blossoming primarily in Germany after the turn of the century into the quintessentially Romantic song cycle, markedly different in style ...
James Parsons, 2004
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Book of Longing
Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago.
Leonard Cohen, 2007
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Love after 1950: a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano
for mezzo-soprano and piano This song cycle uses texts by women poets and focuses on women's experience with great humour and irony. The cycle will appeal to singers with real interpretative flair and is accessible to advanced students.
Libby Larsen, 2001
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The Harvard Dictionary of Music
The song cycle is associated primarily with the 19th-century German *lied. The poems of a song cycle are usually by a single poet and often exist as a poetic cycle, taken over in whole or in part by the composer. The poems may be related in ...
Don Michael Randel, 2003
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Historical Background and Study of "The Cloisters" Song ...
The setting for the subject material is The Cloisters, a museum in New York City housing the medieval art collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Janine M. Robinson, 2009
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The Neglected Song Cycle: A Study of Robert Schumann's "Vier ...
Research materials and reviews of this song cycle are few and far between, so an analysis of this work will hopefully be an aid to singers for studying and performing unknown Lieder.
Raphael Ramiro S. Rada, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SONG CYCLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term song cycle is used in the context of the following news items.
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Song Of A Haunted Childhood
Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider captures these surreal mind games with her new song cycle Unremembered, a follow-up to her much-lauded Penelope. «NPR, Jul 15»
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Here's your summer song cycle
Most know Ashley Monroe as one-third of Pistol Annies, the all-female country supergroup she shares with Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley. «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
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Peabody-Essex hosts 'Song Cycle' with Matthew Aucoin
SALEM — For “Song Cycle,” Friday's collaboration between the Peabody Essex Museum's Present Tense contemporary-art initiative and the interdisciplinary ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
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Review: Theo Bleckmann Upends a Schumann Song Cycle
But then there was nothing predictable about Theo Bleckmann's whimsical interpretation of the song cycle on Tuesday at the Stone, where he is in residence this ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
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Martin Speake and Scott Stroman team up for Blake song cycle
Written between various film projects in January and February of this year, the final result is a highly personal 30-minute song cycle seven of the poet's 'Songs of ... «Jazzwise magazine, Jun 15»
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Voicehandler Releases Song Cycle: You were not there for the …
The experimental duo just released Song Cycle: You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end., which seems to experiment with how ... «SF Weekly, Jun 15»
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Song cycle premiere is a triumph for Truro composer Pascoe
WHILE those who were "blue" were celebrating on May 8 in the Mylor Theatre there was a different celebration: the premiere of a new, substantial work by ... «Cornish Guardian, May 15»
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Atthis review – Sappho's passions in a subtle song cycle
Atmospheric … Rachel Maybank as Atthis and Laure Bachelot as Sappho at the Linbury Studio, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian. «The Guardian, Apr 15»
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Rocky Votolato breaks out with urgent new song cycle
Seattle troubadour Rocky Votolato celebrates the release of a cathartic, breakthrough new album, “Hospital Handshakes” Friday, April 24, at the Fremont Abbey. «The Seattle Times, Apr 15»
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Sufjan Stevens performs a somber song cycle at the Midland
Stevens and a four-piece backing band performed the entire song cycle for a ... answer the question, Stevens devised the new set of deeply personal songs ... «Kansas City Star, Apr 15»

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