lyricism

(noun)

Depth of feeling and imagination.

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Examples of lyricism in the following topics:

  • Melodic Keyboard-Style Voice-Leading

    • When using lyrics, simple type lyrics (or analytical notation) into the lyric box.
    • When skipping a note, put a ~ for the notes that don't take lyrics.

  • Using Trinket (Interactive Music Notation)

    • When using lyrics, simple type lyrics (or analytical notation) into the lyric box.
    • When skipping a note, put a ~ for the notes that don't take lyrics.

  • Sheet of Blank Chromatic-Scale Clock Faces

    • Chorus modules are lyric invariant and contain the primary lyrical material of the song.
    • Verse modules are lyric variant and contain lyrics that supply "narrative or emotional context" to the chorus text (Summach, p. 106).
    • "A lyric-invariant passage within a module that is otherwise lyric-variant" (Summach, p. 322).
    • A module or phrase is lyric-variant if each time it appears it brings (mostly) different lyrics.
    • A module or phrase is lyric-invariant if each time it appears it brings (mostly) the same lyrics.

  • FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

    • In the chapter on Prosody, I have designedly omitted all special treatment of the lyric metres of Horace and Catullus, as well as of the measures of the comic poets.

  • Art and Music

    • Like pop music, lyrics often stressed romantic love but also addressed a wide variety of social and political themes.
    • The Beatles themselves were influenced by many artists, among them American singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, who was a lyrical inspiration as well as their introduction to marijuana.
    • The Velvet Underground's lyrics were considered risque for the era because they discussed sexual fetishism, transgender identities, and the use of drugs.

  • Painting

    • Color field painting, Hard-edge painting and Lyrical Abstraction emerged as radical new directions.
    • The movement is related to American Lyrical Abstraction of the '60s and '70s and the Bay Area Figurative School of the '50s and '60s.

  • Japanese Art after World War II

    • A number of mono-ha artists turned to painting to recapture traditional nuances in spatial arrangements, color harmonies, and lyricism.
    • Shinoda's bold sumi ink abstractions were inspired by traditional calligraphy but were realized as lyrical expressions of modern abstraction.

  • Post-Painterly Abstraction

    • While the term Post-Painterly Abstraction gained some currency in the 1960s, it was gradually supplanted by Minimalism, Hard-Edge Painting, Lyrical Abstraction and Color-Field Painting.

  • Analyzing Poetry

    • When we focus on formal similarities, we're concerned with genres, the different types or subcategories a poet has chosen (e.g. epic, lyric, satire).

  • Arts and Sciences

    • The most popular genres of written works had been the chanson de geste, troubadour lyrics, and romantic epics, or the romance.
    • The application of the vernacular did not entail a rejection of Latin, and both Dante and Boccaccio wrote prolifically in Latin as well as Italian, as would Petrarch later (whose Canzoniere also promoted the vernacular and is considered the first modern lyric poetry collection).