This became the ' standard edition ' for the future and it featured some of the literary conventions that modern readers expectthere was still no spacing between words, little or no punctuation and no stage directions, but abbreviated names now denoted changes of speaker, lyrics are broken into ' cola ' and ' strophai ' or lines and stanzas, and a system of accentuation was introduced.

The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions.

Because the modern musical tends to be published in two separate but intersecting formats ( i. e., the book and lyrics, with all the words, and the piano-vocal score, with all the musical material, including some spoken cues ), both are needed in order to make a thorough reading of an entire show.

In his heyday, Astaire was referenced in lyrics of songwriters Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart and Eric Maschwitz and continues to inspire modern songwriters.

The proverb was apparently based on an anecdote about Ibycus stupidly or nobly turning down an opportunity to become tyrant of Rhegium in order to pursue a poetic career instead ( one modern scholar however infers from his poetry that Ibycus was in fact wise enough to avoid the lure of supreme power, citing as an example Plato's quotation from one of his lyrics: " I am afraid it may be in exchange for some sin before the gods that I get honour from men ") There is no other information about Ibycus ' activities in the West, apart from an account by Himerius, that he fell from his chariot while travelling between Catana and Himera and injured his hand badly enough to give up playing the lyre " for some considerable time.

On the other hand, some modern scholars believe that ' choral ' lyrics were actually performed by soloists and therefore maybe all Ibycus ' work was monody.

Takada used modern Japanese poetry as lyrics, while Kazuki Tomokawa made an album using Chuya Nakahara's poems.

The modern version leaves Elsie singing her line by herself, puts Kate with the chorus, gives Phoebe a mixture of Dame Carruthers ' part and her old one, and changes Phoebe and Dame Carruthers ' lyrics.

" Thus, when lyrics are biblically-based, CCM can relate to issues faced in modern society — with modern music.

The lyrics of the modern Japanese national anthem, Kimi ga Yo, were written in the Heian period, as was The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, one of the first novels ever written.

They describe themselves as a " geek rock " band, and are known for simplistic modern punk-style songs with frequently humorous, juvenile and pop-culture-referencing lyrics.

The lyrics were more complex, criticizing modern ways of life, authority, politics, drugs, and organized religion, among other topics.

Songs such as " Circle of Life " and " He Lives in You " blend a combination of Zulu and English lyrics, as well as traditional African styles of music with more modern western styles.

The most important characteristics of the blues is its use of the blue scale, with a flatted or indeterminate third, as well as the typically lamenting lyrics ; though both of these elements had existed in African American folk music prior to the 20th century, the codified form of modern blues ( such as with the AAB structure ) did not exist until the early 20th century.

The fantasy oriented lyrics he wrote for Rainbow, concentrated around medieval, renaissance, folk and science fiction themes, directly influenced modern power metal bands.

Though the original song dates in the oral tradition to 1640, its modern lyrics were written by Emili Guanyavents, who won a controversial competition in 1899.

The lyrics written in colloquial Cantonese make up the majority with compositions done in modern written Chinese.

TV shows filmed under modern contexts will utilize songs written with these lyrics.

While the use of the word to describe what is now known as jungle is debatable, the emergence of the term in relation to electronic music circles can be roughly traced to lyrics used in Jamaican toasting ( a pre-cursor to modern MCs ), circa 1970.

To promote nationalistic pride amongst Indonesian people, Sukarno interpreted these ideas in his dress, in his urban planning for the capital ( eventually Jakarta ), and in his socialist politics, though he did not extend his taste for modern art to pop music ; he had Koes Plus imprisoned for their allegedly decadent lyrics despite his reputation for womanising.

Its lyrics mimic the modern definition of Thermidor.

Baumanis's lyrics were different from the modern ones: he used the term " Baltics " synonymously and interchangeably with " Latvia " and " Latvians ", so " Latvia " was actually mentioned only at the beginning of the first verse.

Melody, as they are affectionately known by their mostly female fans, play modern taarab, which, for the first time, is ' taarab to dance to ' and features direct lyrics, bypassing the unwritten laws of lyrical subtlety of the older groups such as Egyptian Musical Club and Al-Wattan Musical Club where meaning to their songs was only alluded to, and never directly inferred.

Despite its popularity, the genre of modern laïká ( especially laïkο-pop ) has come under scrutiny for " featuring musical clichés, average singing voices and slogan-like lyrics " and for " being a hybrid, neither laïkó, nor pop ".

Nevertheless, nationalism and sovereignty are reputed, in the accepted wisdom, to describe the modern world.

Not discussed here are some military problems of modern times such as undersea warfare, where the surveillance, sending, transmitting, and receiving are all so inadequate that networks and decision making are not the bottlenecks.

The ancient types are reassembled in gloom and foreboding to be irresistibly drawn to their destinies, but the myth fails before the modern truth ; ;

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.

We are learning how to do these things in some of the vast organized structures of modern society ; ;

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

Unlimited game bags are possible and legal in more than 40 states, on shooting preserves ( one of the newer phases of modern game-management ) for five and six months each year.

Just as heavily invested are the endeavors of multitudes of modern men who carry on the quest for the enchanting index.

This latter assumption will permit us to center attention on the most controversial aspect of modern public utility cost analysis -- the distinction among costs that are functions of outputs of the same service measured along different dimensions.

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times -- granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside -- are correct ; ;

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

Of course, the list also excludes all writers who are fairly `` optimistic '' about the modern situation ; ;

But it is our health -- more precious than all the money in the world -- that these modern witch doctors with their fake therapeutic gadgets are gambling away.

Practically all the people of Laos, he explained -- about two million of them -- are rice farmers, and the means and motives of modern war are as strange to them as clocks and steel plows.

Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

Time and again in counseling and teaching, one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern world are only too painfully obvious.

A closer look at modern Zen reveals many magical carryovers that are still part of popular Zen attitudes.