The Collaborative International Dictionary
Songcraft
Songcraft \Song"craft`\ (s[o^]ng"kr[.a]ft`), n. The art of making songs or verses; metrical composition; versification.
A half-effaced inscription,
Written with little skill of songcraft.
--Longfellow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
songcraft
n. (context music English) The practice of crafting songs, or skill in doing so
Usage examples of "songcraft".
When a later generation of La Tours were struggling for foothold in the New World, it was not strange that a son of the De Borns, full of songcraft and spirit inherited from some troubadour soldier of the twelfth century, should turn his face to the same land.