(n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
(n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
(n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
(n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
(n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.
(n.) A trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Unilateral lesions of n. intercollicularis (previously implicated in the control of vocal behavior) had little effect on song.
(5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(6) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(7) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
(8) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
(9) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
(10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(11) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
(12) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
(13) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
(14) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
(15) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
(16) These results are compatible with the idea that tamoxifen does not block the action of estradiol in the brain of zebra finches, and suggest that the effects of early tamoxifen treatment on the morphology of the song system may reflect central actions of tamoxifen.
(17) If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical App,” they explain.
(18) Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.
(19) In mating test, hybrid males cout and are accepted by D. simulans females more than hybrid females (presumably because their song is more "acceptable" to the former).
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.
Troubadour
Definition:
(n.) One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you’ll marry a music man Ballerina, you must have seen her, dancing in the sand And now she’s in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand For a moment it seemed possible that the person about to get out of the plane was a man of subtle taste and kindness, a man who could appreciate such beauty, who was secure enough in himself to set his arrival in Sacramento to the soundtrack of a 45-year-old song by a gay troubadour.
(2) Whether he liked it or not, women were fascinated by this handsome 6ft 3in troubadour.
(3) Forty years on that's exoneration enough for the "hapless" troubadour Haffey.
(4) And it is nominally this tale that is being told, by BBC Two, in an ambitious 90 minutes: the tale of a couple of pioneering TV troubadours battling daft odds to bring about what would become the world’s first-ever global TV event.
(5) Woody Guthrie was, as his daughter Nora told me yesterday, "the last of the great European troubadours and first singer-songwriter punk rocker".
(6) Haven't heard any of his troubadouring since the 'You're Beautiful' tune a few years back.
(7) Asher Treleaven 's new show, Troubadour (Gilded Balloon), is also autobiographical, a story he tells with the aid of Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats.
(8) His confusion was something wrought via his destiny – though friends say there was no choice in the matter: no posing, no poetic gestures of the misunderstood troubadour.
(9) Before we answer that, we should point out that Allen has, according to her press release, been "breathing new life into London's acoustic scene of late", which invites comparisons with Daughter , that other girl who made the switch from sad strumalongs to electronica, perhaps when she realised the female troubadour niche was already quite full.
(10) 10.01pm BST Half-time advertising message, courtesy of Pelé : Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Say what you like about the honesty of this advert - Pelé doesn't exactly carry off the look of campfire troubadour, manically waving that guitar around, and Pepsi as we know is not the real thing - but at least it doesn't impose itself and its values on the viewer like that bloody Apple advert that's on during every break on ITV.
(11) Rice, a 30-year-old troubadour from Dublin, is still making his name, but already has fans who are old enough to be his parents.
(12) The BFG shares a common core with Rooster, Rylance’s epoch-making trickster-troubadour-tout in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, which also delved deep into ancient English myths and pagan archetypes.
(13) He is the bard of the Great Recession , a troubadour of the downturn that crashed in on us in 2008 but which had, in truth, been coming for decades.
(14) Here are some of the things we learned from this year’s awards: Drunk Ed Sheeran is more fun than sober Ed Sheeran As with when Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted the Brits, the reason for pairing meek and lovelorn acoustic troubadour Ed Sheeran with the fiery, unpredictable Ruby Rose was the hilarity of juxtaposition .
(15) Mercury Prize winner James Blake will compete with Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and country singer Kacey Musgraves for best new artist, as will English troubadour Ed Sheeran.
(16) Fat White Family – a ramshackle, rancid mess of a band that spawned in Peckham in 2011 and mutated in Brixton – are not your usual chart-tickling troubadours.
(17) (The legend may also have connections with troubadour poetry, in which the woman is all-powerful, all pure and all-denying.)
(18) "I once read that no moving pictures exist of wistful, tragic 70s troubadour Nick Drake.
(19) Minchin – a wild-haired Aussie troubadour who in 2005 won the best newcomer award in Edinburgh – seems to be a paid-up member of the new rationalist comedy movement.
(20) Tortured Troubadour week A theme for people who hate The X Factor .