He enjoyed singing from childhood, loved to draw an impromptu audience ( even while waiting for a bus ), and developed a pleasing lyric baritone and superb sight-reading skills.

The Greeks distinguished, however, between lyric monody ( e. g. Sappho, Anacreon ) and choral lyric ( e. g. Pindar, Bacchylides ).

11, 17, 30, 34, 51, 61 ) and Horace ( four books of Odes ) wrote lyric poetry, which however was no longer meant to be sung, but read or recited.

The subjects are love and wine ; occasionally, however, as in the famous lyric ( 1756 ) On the capture of Port Mahon, for which the author received a pension of 600 livres, the note of patriotism is struck with no unskilful hand, while in many others Collé shows considerable epigrammatic force.

On the Live from the Atlantic Studios disc, however, Scott describes the titular woman as "... a Tasmanian devil ... weighs 305 pounds ...," a measurement that differs from the " 19 stone " lyric ( 21 st 11 lb ).

In a Facebook posting on the group's fanpage, mid-November 2010, Helmut relayed that “ When Franz passed away last May, the project was barely off the ground ; however, a lyric, piano sketch and rough vocal were completed on the new song .” In that same posting, Helmut shared that he contacted Jeremy Lubbock, the brothers ' childhood favorite arranger, to arrange the song for them.

* The song " And Your Bird Can Sing " is supposedly primarily by John Lennon, however Paul McCartney claims to have helped on the lyric, estimating the song as " 80-20 " to Lennon.

The band agreed to do so, and did a rehearsal using the amended lyrics ; however, during the live performance, the band's lead singer Jim Morrison sang the original lyric.

He is perhaps best remembered, however, by the beautiful lyric, There's nae luck aboot the Hoose, which, although claimed by others, is almost certainly his.

The album featured a line-up of songs very " Russian " in both lyric and tune, and wasn't initially met with much public appreciation ( in retrospect, however, it is considered by most critics one of his best records ).

His strength lay not, however, in his political songs but in his purely lyric poetry, such as the fine cycle Ada and his popular love-songs.

As a lyric poet, especially in Gedichte ( 1857 ) and Aus bewegten Tagen, a volume of poems ( 1869 ), he showed himself more to advantage than in his novels, of which latter, however, Untreu aus Mitleid ( 2 vols, 1868 ); Vox populi, vox dei ( 1869 ); Maria Mancini ( 1871 ); Neue Erzahlungen ( 1875 ); Sophie Monnier ( 1876 ), and Ein Frauenlos ( 1888 ) are remarkable for a certain elegance of style.

His political lyric was, however, tempered by an aristocratic restraint which was absent from the writings of men like Herwegh and Freiligrath.

In many other respects, however, his philosophical and contemplative lyric poetry did not fit the narrow definition of Neoclassicism.

Different sources however suggest that there also existed aristocratic historical records ( like Heldenlieder ), lyric folklore ( dance, love songs, spells ).

The reprise, however, is included on the album following with " Time " ( though not on the track listing or lyric sheet ).

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

The most important of his works are his lyric, teaching hymns (, madrāšê ).

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

) Singers are then further classified by size – for instance, a soprano can be described as a lyric soprano, coloratura, soubrette, spinto, or dramatic soprano.

Out of over 200 remaining remnants of Sappho ’ s poetry, Fragment 16 and Fragment 44 in particular are considered lyric retellings of Homer epics, as Sappho was known to be very familiar with Homer ’ s poems.

The former are dramatic and meant for the theater ; the latter are lyric and meant for the concert hall:

The most notable features of his lyrics are their clarity in expression and simplicity of thought, making them an ideal introduction to the study of Greek lyric poetry in general and to Pindar's verse in particular.

Like Simonides, he followed the lyric tradition of coining compound adjectives – a tradition in which the poet was expected to be both innovative and tasteful – but the results are thought by some modern scholars to be uneven.

His lyric poems as a whole give evidence of deep and lively sensibility, fine imagination, clever wit, and a true ear for melody and rhythm ; but an air of cynicism is more or less present in most of them, and dull or vulgar witticisms are not infrequently found side by side with the purest inspirations of his genius.

This is largely because Zinf has not seen an official new release since early 2004, and many new features that are now standard in rival players have not been implemented ; such as cover art and lyric support.

Miller told Tormé to pick up every song by Mercer and study it and to become a voracious reader of anything he could find, because " all good lyric writers are great readers.

The sheet music in Appendix 4 has the lyric in Chinese only without Portuguese translation even though both Chinese and Portuguese are official languages of Macau.

There are many vocal shades to the lyric tenor group, repertoire should be selected according to the weight, colors, and abilities of the voice.

All of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas have at least one lead lyric tenor character ; other notable roles are:

He composed longer pieces on a Persian War theme, including Dirge for the Fallen at Thermopylae, Battle at Artemisium and Battle at Salamis but their genres are not clear from the fragmentary remains-the first was labelled by Diodorus Siculus as an encomium but it was probably a hymn and the second was characterized in the Suda as elegiac yet Priscian, in a comment on prosody, indicated that it was composed in lyric meter.

-ουσα ) which are not present in Homer itself but will pass on to all the subsequent lyric poets.

Within the category of contraltos are three generally recognized subcategories — coloratura contralto, lyric contralto, and dramatic contralto — that usefully describe the voice type in general terms.

Merritt is gay, and his lyrics are known for bending and blurring gender lines ; examples include the song " When My Boy Walks Down the Street ", which contains the lyric " and he's going to be my wife ," and on the single " Andrew in Drag ", from the album Love at the Bottom of the Sea, he sings, " A pity she does not exist, a shame he's not a fag.

The Saints ' anthem is the popular sport tune When the Saints Go Marching In, and since the club's official nickname is " the Saints ", they are one of only a few teams who do not change the original lyric.

Romantic lyric poetry consists of first-person accounts of the thoughts and feelings of a specific moment ; feelings are extreme, but personal.

The music of the 1950s is fundamentally lyric in style, though there are comparatively few long-breathed melodies ; two such can be found in the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the Piano Concerto opens with a long tune for high piano and flute, creating " a sustained crescendo, thirty-three bars long leading to a sonorous tutti "( David Matthews ).

Brian's music often includes a violin solo, like Vaughan Williams's music, but whereas with Vaughan Williams the solo violin writing is long, sustained and eloquent and usually sets the lyric seal to the music, with Brian the violin solos are often poignant and brief and swept aside by the turbulent currents of the music.

Although his hymns can hardly be imitated, they have become a powerful influence on modern poetry in German and other languages, and are sometimes cited as the very crown of German lyric poetry.

The grammarian Athenaeus quoted some verses about perfumed ointments to prove just how unwarlike Alcaeus could be and he quoted his description of the armour adorning the walls of his house as proof that he could be unusually warlike for a lyric poet.

Even though the term " courtly love " does appear only in just one extant Provençal poem ( as cortez amors in a late 12th century lyric by Peire d ' Alvernhe ), it is closely related to the term fin ' amor (" fine love ") which does appear frequently in Provençal and French, as well as German translated as hohe Minne.

Armstrong recorded " Stardust " on November 4, 1931, and on an alternate take inserted the lyric ' oh, memory ' just before an instrumental break.

* Prince and The New Power Generation's 1991 single Gett Off includes the lyric " Dudley do no wrong tonight if Nell just let him kick it " in reference to Dudley's frustrated pursuit of Nell.

Like The Who's Tommy and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus is critically regarded as a landmark of art rock, with a tapestry of literary themes about the fragility of life and the complexity of the human experience, illustrated by recurring lyric " life has just begun ", and continued the group's pioneering exploration of environmental issues in their lyrics ( cf.

The lyrics, " The only thing you done was yesterday / And since you've gone you're just another day " are directed at McCartney, the first lyric being a reference to The Beatles ' 1965 song " Yesterday ".

During the evening Sharp told the musician about a poem he had recently written ; the musician in turn told Martin that he was looking for a lyric for some new music he had just written.

Gil Scott-Heron mentioned Wilkins in his most famous spoken word song " The Revolution Will Not Be Televised " with this lyric: " There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy Wilkins strolling through Watts in a red, black and green liberation jumpsuit that he has been saving for just the proper occasion.

He also sang the lyric " You're going to reap just what you sow " in the Children in Need charity single " Perfect Day ".

According to Paul de Barros, in just the single year 1925 Seattle witnessed performances by Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, and operatic bass Feodor Chaliapin ; Hungarian composer and pianist Ernő Dohnányi ; African American lyric tenor Roland Hayes ; and Austrian violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler.

Martin went on to further explain that the word " yellow " has absolutely no meaning whatsoever and while writing the rest of the song he tried his best to change yellow to something else since every lyric before yellow made no sense but in the end the word " yellow " just sounded right.

The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil-the enduring metaphor of Christ crucified between two criminals comes to mind here-so within the fabric of the love song, within its melody, its lyric, one must sense an acknowledgement of its capacity for suffering.

The song is essentially an instrumental piece and a vehicle for scatting and improvisational vocals, since, as the chorus ( the song's only actual lyric ) states, " ain't no words to this song / you just dance and hum along ".

The lyric was there, it was cute, but we didn't think of what it meant ; but at that time, nobody else would think of it either, because we weren't as morally open as we are today and so, a lot of stuff — really, no excuses — just went over our heads.

Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

The lyric " We never, never fail when we go to make a sale, we simply cheat a little if we must " was changed to " We never, never fail when we go to make a sale, we just work a little harder if we must.

Later, after the song's mix had just been completed by the production team, The Edge came up with a guitar part he wanted to add to the song's end near the lyric " Love is a temple ".

I wasn't just trying to get that racy word virgin in a lyric.

Harrison uses the lyric reversal mentioned in his autobiography, singing the bridge " it isn't me, it's just the mind.

To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song.

Weil and Mann were based at Aldon Music, located at 1650 Broadway, New York City, and the song as written by Mann / Weil was originally recorded by The Cookies ( although The Crystals ' version beat them to release ) and featured an upbeat lyric in which the protagonist is still on her way to Broadway and sings " I got to get there soon, or I'll just die.

The writing session was abbreviated as Gayden had to go home for supper ; Cason assured his partner: " I'll put some kind of lyric to it ... Neither of us was too concerned as just knew that ' The Weeper ' would be the hit of the session.

They included James Taylor, Carole King and others, all known just as much for the lyric ability as for their performances.

Eric Lott cites them as one of the leading publishers circa 1850 of songbooks ( typically just lyrics, not melodies ) of the popular blackface minstrel songs of the time, which he characterizes as " little lyric volumes of mass-produced racist caricature.