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song cycle

n
(Classical Music) 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
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song′ cy`cle


n.
a group of art songs that are usu. all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
[1895–1900]
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Translations

song cycle

nciclo di canzoni
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The music of Come to Me in Dreams is derived from Laitman's song cycles Holocaust 1944, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, and The Years.
This collection of four song cycles by Jake Heggie is presented to the public by an organization called Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS.
Four song cycles by Robert Owens were reviewed in the September/October 2006 issue of Journal of Singing.
Kimball added eighteen new composer sections, eighty-five single songs with annotations, fifteen song cycles and collections, and more information on Italian, Russian, Scandinavian, and American literature.
Her dissertation in American art song, "Twentieth-Century American Song Cycles: A Study in Circle Imagery," led to the chairmanship of the 1976 NATS Committee on American Song, which produced the first edition of Art-Song in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography(1976), of which she was the editor.
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Happily, among his wildly diverse output are two magnificent song cycles, Of Times and Their Places (1988, revised 1994) and For Ann, in Autumn (1999).
Tenor Arthur Espiritu and pianist Najib Ismail were in such high spirit and in such good form their unerring artistic collaboration erased all doubts about song cycles ending in boredomville.
This best known of Schumann's song cycles is to get the best possible rendition.
At various stages in his career, Carter chose texts for his song cycles from the main lineage of American modernism: Eliot, Pound, Moore, Stevens, Crane, Bishop, Lowell, Ashbery.
Focusing on the Bulgarian village of Bistritsi, where he conducted field work and collected song cycles between 1970 and 1973, he examines the songs and their performance within the social dimension of the entire village culture in order to elucidate their interrelationships with other polyphonic traditions throughout Bulgaria and beyond.
Renowned for his song cycles and for his music for younger audiences, he wrote in several classical genres and styles - from film scores to opera.