Songs and poetry often rely on ambiguous words for artistic effect, as in the song title " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " ( where " blue " can refer to the color, or to sadness ).

Songs often used the audio from the videos as samples incorporated into the music, such as with the songs " Timber " ( released as a single in 1998 ) and " Pan Opticon ".

In spite of the lack of explicitly religious content, Song of Songs has often been interpreted as a parable of the relationship of God and Israel, or for Christians, Christ and the Church or Christ and the human soul, as husband and wife.

Songs in the blues style often employ double entendre.

The other major work, a setting of Walt Whitman poems with the title Songs of Farewell, was an even more alarming prospect to Fenby: " the complexity of thinking in so many strands, often all at once ; the problems of orchestral and vocal balance ; the wider area of possible misunderstandings ..." combined to leave Delius and his helper exhausted after each session of work — yet both these works were ready for performance in 1932.

Songs which are traditional, even some without a specific religious context, are often called Christmas carols.

Songs are often very long and lack beat or rhythm in the traditional sense.

Songs or chants sometimes accompanied these gumboot dances, often with themes of longing or loneliness, and sometimes making fun of their bosses in the songs.

" Allmusic's Mark Deming commented that " Newman's humor started getting more acidic with 12 Songs, but here even his most mordant character studies boast a recognizable humanity, which often make his subjects both pitiable and all the more loathsome.

The Springsteen and Clemons cover pose has been imitated often, from Cheap Trick on the album Next Position Please, to Tom and Ray Magliozzi on the cover of the Car Talk compilation Born Not to Run: More Disrespectful Car Songs, to Kevin & Kell on a Sunday strip entitled " Born to Migrate " featuring Kevin Dewclaw as Bruce with a carrot and Kell Dewclaw as Clarence with a pile of bones, to Bert and the Cookie Monster on the cover of the Sesame Street album Born to Add.

Indeed, Against Apion, the writing of Josephus in 95 CE, treated the text of the Hebrew Bible as a closed canon to which "... no one has ventured either to add, or to remove, or to alter a syllable ..." However, we know that for a long time following this date that the divine inspiration of Esther, the Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes was often under scrutiny.

Songs such as " Rhythm Is Our Business ", " I'm Nuts about Screwy Music ", " I Want the Waiter ( With the Water )", and " Four or Five Times " displayed a playful sense of swing, often through clever arrangements by trumpeter Sy Oliver and bizarre lyrics.

Instrumental pieces in popular music often have a descriptive title which suggests that they could be categorized as program music, and several instrumental albums are completely devoted to some programmatic idea ( for example, China by Vangelis or The Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield ).

Songs and spectacles were often used in plays to enhance participation.

Songs are often related to other songs on the same album by a common theme.

Songs were often sung by women at work parties such as the sedenka ( often attended by young men and women in search of partners to court ), betrothal ceremonies, and just for fun.

Songs are often repeated in order.

The Classic of Poetry (), translated variously as the Book of Songs, the Book of Odes, and often known simply as its original name the Odes or Poetry (), is the earliest existing collection of Chinese poems and songs.

Songs are often in different languages depending on the industry, for example in Hindi or Tamil.

Songs in the early days were often contrafacta — Russian folk tunes with translated or new lyrics in Hebrew.

Songs based in the Russian or klezmer traditions normally use the harmonic minor ( that is, with an elevated seventh ), while songs in the New Hebrew style use natural minor, often with a diminished second leading to the tonic.

Songs at the peak of their popularity at the time of the November / December chart-year cutoff many times end up ranked on the following year's chart as well, as their cumulative points are split between the two chart-years, but often are ranked lower than they would have been had the peak occurred in a single year.

Songs became more complex and sophisticated in their melodic and harmonic vocabulary and, in addition to their continuing use in the parlour, were also often sung in public recitals by professional singers.

Songs often include music videos when played, although only some songs contain dedicated videos.

Leonard Slatkin, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 2000 – 2004, expressed a desire to tone down the nationalism of the Last Night somewhat, and on the Last Night of the seasons from 2002 until 2007 Rule Britannia has only been heard as part of Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs ( another piece traditional to the Last Night ) rather than separately.

Songs like My Old Man ( Said Follow the Van ), Knocked ' em in the Old Kent Road, and Waiting at the Church, expressed in melodic form situations with which the urban poor were very familiar.

In a short musical sketch on the same episode, Vance sang " I Play The Maids " ( a spin on the Barry Manilow song, " I Write The Songs "), a satirical song that expressed frustration over black actresses ( and herself ) being typecast as maids in films and on television shows.

Songs I Heard won Connick another Grammy for best traditional pop album and he toured performing songs from the album, holding matinees at which each parent had to be accompanied by a child.

The first influences of African American Culture into hymns came from Slave Songs of the United States a collection of slave hymns complied by William Francis Allen who had difficulty pinning them down from the oral tradition, and though he succeeded, he points out the awe inspiring effect of the hymns when sung in by their originators.

In Songs My Mother Taught Me, Brando claimed he met Marilyn Monroe at a party where she played piano, unnoticed by anybody else there, and they had an affair and maintained an intermittent relationship for many years, receiving a telephone call from her several days before she died.

Songs included Dave Brubeck's " The Duke ," as well as Léo Delibes's " The Maids of Cadiz ," the first piece of European classical music Davis had recorded.

Two years later, The Offspring had its fifth top ten album with Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace and its third Modern Rock / Alternative Songs chart-topper with " You're Gonna Go Far, Kid ".

At the same time Prokofiev also composed music for children ( Three Songs for Children and Peter and the Wolf, among others ) as well as the gigantic Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, which was banned from performance and had to wait until May 1966 for a partial premiere.

Before his return, Adorno had not only reached an agreement with a Tübingen publisher to print an expanded version of Philosophy of New Music, but completed two compositions: Four Songs for Voice and Piano by Stefan George, op. 7, and Three Choruses for Female Voices from the Poems of Theodor Daubler, op.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

León was one of the foremost experts in Biblical Studies then and had written an important and controversial translation of the Song of Songs into Spanish.

The first, Psalms, Sonnets and Songs of Sadness and Pietie ( 1588 ) consists mainly of adapted consort songs, which Byrd, probably guided by commercial instincts, had turned into vocal part-songs by adding words to the accompanying instrumental parts and labelling the original solo voice as ‘ the first singing part ’.

The Songs of Sundrie Natures ( 1589 ) contain sections in three, four, five and six parts, a format which follows the plan of many Tudor manuscript collections of household music and was probably intended to emulate the madrigal collection Musica transalpina, which had appeared in print the previous year.

His friend Viktor Hartmann had died, and his relative and recent roommate Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov ( who furnished the poems for the song-cycle Sunless and would go on to provide those for the Songs and Dances of Death ) had moved away to get married.

Altman had immensely liked Cohen's debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen ( 1967 ), buying additional copies of it after wearing each one out.

Once Vietnam did succumb to foreign rule, however, it proved unable to escape from it, and for 1, 100 years, Vietnam had been successively governed by a series of foreign powers: the Hans, Eastern Hans, Eastern Wus, Cao Wei, Jins, Liu Songs, Southern Qis, Liangs, Suis, Tangs, and Southern Hans ; leading to the losses of its writing system, language, and national identity.

* The a cappella group The Bobs ' song " Santa Ana Woman " from their 1988 album Songs for Tomorrow Morning has the line " The Santa Ana winds had come back / And the whole city of LA was acting like it had PMS.

Shortly before his death, Mullins had been working on his next project, which was to be a concept album based on the life of Jesus Christ and was to be called Ten Songs About Jesus.

Foddershock has self-produced and released 8 albums and have had songs in movies and on the compilation cd " Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields " which was nominated for a Grammy in 2007.

" In 1998, he released 20 of the songs he had been stockpiling as the first official Bright Eyes album, A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997.

In the James Levine era, the BSO had no standing recording contract with a major label ; the Grammy award winning recording of Levine conducting the BSO with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs, released on Nonesuch Records, was the only major label recording during Levine's tenure.

Here Eric Clapton joins the band in March 2009 to play songs from 1970's classic Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, which had featured Duane Allman.

The sisters ' popularity was such that after the war they discovered some of their records had actually been smuggled into Germany after the labels had been changed to read " Hitler's Marching Songs ".

In 1956, MacColl caused a scandal when he fell in love with twenty-one-year-old Peggy Seeger, who had come to England to transcribe the music for Alan Lomax's anthology, Folk Songs of North America ( published in 1961 ).