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lyric

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lyric \Lyr"ic\, Lyrical \Lyr"ic*al\, a. [L. lyricus, Gr. ?: cf. F. lyrique. See Lyre .] Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; suitable for or suggestive of singing; -- of music or poetry. expressing ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance" [syn: lyrical ] used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano" [ant: dramatic ] relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage" ...

Usage examples of lyric.

Rock music then, unlike now, was the vehicle for social protest: lyrics were analysed in meticulous detail and the release of each new album was a major event.

Charles Manson and all the other fanatics who had decoded the album sleeves or lyrics to find secret messages addressed only to them.

John Bell Williams, who has his own radio program in Birmingham, Alabama, wrote the lyrics to all the Bungee Condom spots used on my radio program and reprinted here.

Lang gave him a present in the form of a thick volume of words and lyrics for evergreens and other sing-alongs, and Chi showed remarkable talent in imitating the texts once Lang had pronounced them to him a few times.

The accompaniment the duar provided was nothing less than awful, but what mattered was not the ragged series of notes but rather the lyrics Mudge invented.

Harry had gotten her into the chorus line at the Folies, but she was too argumentative for management, so when the war scare chased his American musicians from the Happy Paris to Hawaii, he replaced them by making her the enigmatic and, apart from lyrics, silent Record Girl.

At the moment when a ball struck on the scaffold of the Fontaine des Innocents Jean Goujon who had found the Pagan chisel of Phidias, Ronsard discovered the lyre of Pindar and founded, aided by his pleiad, the great French lyric school.

It rested first on the basis of the frottola, but when the elegant and gracious madrigal provided an art form better suited to the opulence of the decorative features of the embryonic lyric drama, the madrigal became the dominating element in the music.

Yet even in this lyric species we discern something of the large influence of the humorous madrigal play, for in time the comic opera and the ballet spectacle both found homes after public opera houses had been thrown open to an eager public.

Jonson, whose splendid scorn took to itself lyric wings in the two great Odes to Himself, sang high and aloof for a while, then the frenzy caught him, and he flung away his lyre to gird himself for deeds of mischief among nameless and noteless antagonists.

He was a singer of lyrics and pastorals, a lover of the material beauty about him, and it is because he passed by the pietistic, the classic, the literary, and showed the beauty of physical life as an art motive that he is called the Faun of the Renaissance.

Friends of the Country was planning an extravaganza at the national theater, with music by Reyes and lyrics by Prudhomme and speeches by everybody.

Full of wonder, the reem listened to the wind, the lyric babbling of the water, and the plangent cries of tiny, cloistered birds.

We feel, as we read these late, and even later words, that the lyric imagination was renewing itself in the incipient dissolution of other powers.

He is, however, generally acknowledged to be a great lyric poet, while many of his best Kasidas refer to the exploits of Saif ad Dawlah, a prince of the Benou Hamdan dynasty in Syria.