Songtext
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Songtext is a noun meaning The written words to a song; lyrics.
Meaning
The written words to a song; lyrics.
Example Sentences
The songtexts are in rhymed verses, and each line is repeated once.
Next to this is a separate column for the songtext — which does not always give the words of the text, at the most a few catchwords, headed by the word: [...]
The use of songtext, therefore, was important as a literary medium and as a means of recording oral traditions and events of historical ... Songtext may also be considered as an important factor in determining emotional effect of musical sound.
“No doubt,” writes LèviStrauss (in his analysis which ignores the performative, social, colonial and microhistorical contexts of the song-text), “the purpose of such an alteration in the details of the myth is to elicit the corresponding organic reaction, [...]”
Word Forms
- songtexts
- song-text
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include words, lettering, underlay, line, lines, setting.
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