Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

There is a quick change from the plaintive song to a conversational tone.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

What a discussion can ensue when the title of this type of song is in question.

If your favorite song is not here it must be an unfamiliar one.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

" America the Beautiful " is an American patriotic song.

The song is one of the most beloved and popular of the many American patriotic songs.

The song is often included in songbooks in a wide variety of religious congregations in the United States.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

Cash often included the song when he toured prisons, saying " For the three minutes that song is going on, everybody is free.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".

Indeed, many people have come to see the song as a life-affirming ode to optimism.

Alternative-country artist Robbie Fulks sings a wistful ode to " That Bangle Girl ", a song identified as one of his " personal favorites ", on his 2000 Very Best album.

In another view on the etymology, Athenaeus of Naucratis ( 2nd – 3rd century CE ) says that the original form of the word was trygodia from trygos ( grape harvest ) and ode ( song ), because those events were first introduced during grape harvest.

Others suppose it is a location filled with feasting, sport, song ; Joy is the " daughter of Elysium " in Friedrich Schiller's ode " To Joy ".

The song is an ode to living in Southern California.

Punk band A released an ode to the location called I Love Lake Tahoe on their album ' A ' vs. Monkey Kong-the song notes that " that's where Sonny Bono died ".

Le Bonne Route, a 1996 album by Deniz Tek of Radio Birdman features a song titled ' Lunatics at the Edge of the World ', which Tek described as " An ode to Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson.

The most memorable included " The Footie Song ", an ode to football sung and written by people who clearly neither cared or knew anything about it, " The Robert De Niro Calypso ", a tribute to the famous actor, " My Name is Roscoe ", a country and western song whose lyrics included the theory of relativity and " Song For Bob Hoskins ".

The song, titled " Divine ," was an ode to the actor, who was one of Antony's lifelong heroes.

Cold's song " The Day Seattle Died " ( from the 2003 album, Year of the Spider ) was an ode to Staley, as well as Kurt Cobain, who were both figureheads of the grunge movement.

The forms that dominate the poetic production of these poets are the Petrarchan sonnet cycle ( developed around an amorous encounter or an idealized woman ) and the Horatian / Anacreontic ode ( of the " wine, women and song " variety, often making use of the Horatian carpe diem topos-life is short, seize the day ).

Though the movie features excellent songs they all depict the situation like nothing else could, like a prisoner singing an ode to an imprisoned bird, " O Panchhi Pyare " sung by Asha Bhosle and Asha Bhosle's touching, ' Ab ke Baras Bhej Bhaiya ko Babul ' composed in ' Raga Pilu ', excellently uses the folk idiom of a traditional song of a newly married girl longing for her maternal home, ( maika ), but being sung by a prison inmate of Kalyani, immediately conveys the irony in its placement.

* The Standells ' song " Dirty Water " is an ode to Boston and asks listeners " have you heard about the Strangler?

In English, lacking an exact equivalent for the Chinese, the translation of the word shi in this regard is generally as " poem ", " song ", or " ode ".

Those Chosen recorded a rap song and music video as an ode to the closing of I-405 entitled, " Carmageddon "

In response, the Eraserheads denied the allegation, saying that it was just a misinterpretation, and that the song was the band's " ode to freedom ", not an " ode to drug abuse ".

The word τραγῳδία ( tragoidia ), from which the word " tragedy " is derived, is a portmanteau of two Greek words: τράγος ( tragos ) or " goat " and ᾠδή ( ode ) meaning " song ", from ἀείδειν ( aeidein ), " to sing ".

The song, an ode to Hindustan — the land comprising present-day Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan — both celebrated and cherished the land even as it lamented its age-old anguish.

Bibliomancy compares with rhapsodomancy ( from rhapsode " poem, song, ode ") " divination by reading a random passage from a poem ".

The song, performed entirely in English, was an up-tempo ode to positive thought.

Thus while shi can mean poetry, it carries implications of the meaning of song or ode.

Due to homesickness, Al Jardine and Mike Love conspired to create a three-part song cycle as an ode to California.

It wouldn't be a ZZ Top CD without an ode to women on it and this song accepts that responsibility.

Some commentators have further seen the lyrical subtext as displaying Reed's romanticized attitude towards a period of his own addiction to heroin ; this popular understanding of the song as an ode to addiction led to its inclusion in the soundtrack for Trainspotting, a film about the lives of heroin users.