They were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera ( descendants perhaps of broadside ballads, but with printed music, and usually newly composed.

Many of the songs are sung in a call and response format while others are in the form of a narrative.

The narrative voice in many of the songs describes an erotic relationship, in the troubadour fashion, with the Divine.

It was a series of five original children's songs with a connecting narrative about a monkey and his fellow zoo creatures.

Baum not only wrote the play but composed songs for it ( making it a prototypical musical, as its songs relate to the narrative ), and acted in the leading role.

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

She assumed that children's songs were a peculiar form of coded historical narrative, propaganda or covert protest, and rarely considered that they could have been written simply for entertainment.

The Haggadah contains the narrative of the Israelite exodus from Egypt, special blessings and rituals, commentaries from the Talmud, and special Passover songs.

The first time bluegrass music had its own entries in Music Index was 1987 ( Stratelak, 1988 ). There is no strict definition of bluegrass, although there are clear derivatives — the topical and narrative themes of many bluegrass songs are highly reminiscent of folk music.

Eventually the people began using the broadsheet as a source for political activism by reprinting speeches, ballads or narrative songs originally performed by bards.

Many were based on traditional European folk tunes, with lyrics that reflected the lives, experiences and concerns of lumberjacks, with the themes of cutting, hauling, rolling and driving, as well as narrative songs that involved romance.

In Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey Phemius () is an Ithacan poet who performs narrative songs in the house of the absent Odysseus.

A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are not unified by a common theme or narrative.

Reflecting the fact that these studio masterpieces were impossible for the group to perform live, their psychedelic mini-films illustrated the songs in an artful, impressionistic manner rather than trying to simulate an idealised performance or depict a narrative or plot.

Although usually described as a song cycle rather than a concept album, the songs do, when considered in their totality, seem to link together as one long song, forming an " intangible narrative of unreachable worlds " and delivered with what one writer calls " a masterpiece of virtuoso singing ".

This compilation featured the likes of " Haywire Mac " McClintock and Cisco Houston performing his songs as well as narrative interludes from Utah Phillips, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and others.

Although the songs throughout the film allude to and advance the narrative, every song except " Tomorrow Belongs to Me " is executed in the context of a Kit Kat Klub performance.

* Oracles or speeches by the prophets, usually in poetic form, and drawing on a wide variety of genres, including covenant lawsuit, oracles against the nations, judgment oracles, messenger speeches, songs, hymns, narrative, lament, law, proverb, symbolic gesture, prayer, wisdom saying, and vision.

Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a persona common to the songs, or even, as in Schumann's second Liederkreis, by the atmospheric setting of the forest.

The National Theatre of Korea provides monthly opportunities to experience traditional Korean narrative songs or pansori.

During Odysseus ' stay on Scherie, Demodocus performs three narrative songs.

Most Nepali movies use Bollywood-style songs and narrative and are shot on 16-millimeter film.

Work songs include music sung while conducting a task ( often to coordinate timing ) or a song linked to a task or trade which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.

But after 1832, the narrative tends to lose its balanced, many-sided quality and to become a medley of topics, often unconnected by any single thread.

Linguistic anthropologists often draw on related fields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and narrative analysis.

The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, wherein individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings, the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature, with a self-contained story, often concise and relying on imagery, rather than description, which can be tragic, historical, romantic or comic.

Blues ballads tend to deal with active protagonists, often anti-heroes, resisting adversity and authority, but frequently lacking a strong narrative and emphasising character instead.

Many are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions.

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

The Ladaínha is a narrative solo sung only at the beginning of a roda, often by a mestre ( master ) or most respected capoeirista present.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

Thus, this leads to the often critiqued narrative of the " white man " saving the " brown woman " from the " brown man.

Formula fiction is often stereotypically associated with early pulp magazine markets, though some works published in that medium, such as " The Cold Equations ", subvert the supposed expectations of the common narrative formula of that time.

Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure and often their in medias res plot developments.

Like its dada and surrealist predecessors, French New Wave editing often drew attention to itself by its lack of continuity, its demystifying self-reflexive nature ( reminding the audience that they were watching a film ), and by the overt use of jump cuts or the insertion of material not often related to any narrative.

Burnett's characteristic narrative approach fell somewhere between that of the quintessential hardboiled writers and their noir fiction compatriots — his protagonists were often heroic in their way, a way just happening to be that of the gangster.

" A deeply religious man, working in Counter Reformation Rome, Bernini used light as an important metaphorical device in the perception of his religious settings, often using hidden light sources that could intensify the focus of religious worship, or enhance the dramatic moment of a sculptural narrative.

Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative.

Halakha is often contrasted with Aggadah, the diverse corpus of rabbinic exegetical, narrative, philosophical, mystical, and other " non-legal " literatures.

Irrealist writing often highlights this irreality, and our strange fascination with it, by combining the unease we feel because the real world doesn't conform to our desires with the narrative quality of the dream state ( where reality is constantly and inexplicably being undermined ); it is thus said to communicate directly, " by feeling rather than articulation, the uncertainties inherent in human existence or, to put it another way ... the irreconcilability between human aspiration and human reality.

His films often eschew traditional narrative structure, lacking clear plot progression and focusing more on mood and character development.

In these French stories, the narrative focus often shifts from King Arthur himself to other characters, such as various Knights of the Round Table.

There have been relatively few modern attempts to challenge this notion that the Historia Regum Britanniae is primarily Geoffrey's own work, with scholarly opinion often echoing William of Newburgh's late-12th-century comment that Geoffrey " made up " his narrative, perhaps through an " inordinate love of lying ".

Later poets and aestheticians often distinguished poetry from, and defined it in opposition to prose, which was generally understood as writing with a proclivity to logical explication and a linear narrative structure.