popular song
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpopularandsong
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popular
adjective
uk/ˈpɒp.jə.lər/us/ˈpɑː.pjə.lɚ/
liked, enjoyed, or supported by ...
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song
noun
uk/sɒŋ/us/sɑːŋ/
a usually short piece of music with words that ...
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(Definition ofpopularandsongfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Butpopularsongis used to generate moral and aesthetic shock, further reminders of just how far ' out of joint' this world is.
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In the field ofpopularsong, words may be more or less obtrusive, rely more or less on the music to complete a statement.
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He took delight in interpretingpopularsonglyrics as well.
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The mostpopularsongtypes nominated by children were action songs and songs with 'funny words'.
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They gave ' utterance' to the phonograph as a potential medium of entertainment, initially ofpopularsong.
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The question becomes the purely pragmatic one of which approach will tell us more about thepopularsong.
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It should be noted how this type of urban commercialpopularsongdiffered from the popular traditional songs of the countryside.
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There's obviously a strong link to be made between language and music throughpopularsong.
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Sharp's dispute with the education authorities had centred on their 'misconception' that folk-song was generically identical to other forms ofpopularsong.
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The sophistication of her compositional craft places her at the pinnacle of achievement in the field ofpopularsong.
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Death as a topic inpopularsongexpanded the discussion beyond the realm of art music.
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But, althoughpopularsongprovided the soundtrack for these avant-garde movements, its proximity to the progressive fringe of artistic activity did not guarantee its own elevated prestige.
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Donna's piece epitomises the contemporar ypopularsongin both style and form.
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The second level of meaning derives from musical forms which involve sung text; ballads,popularsong, music hall, musical theatre, opera, oratorio, liturgy, and such like.
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A peer learning approach already exists in apopularsong-writing subject which combines composition with performance and in which student groups play the emerging newly written songs of their peers.
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Ophelia's disordered and rambling performance ofpopularsongis itself evidence that something is rotten in the body politic.
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But equally they drew on popular tunes, setting new words to apopularsongand borrowing freely from existing material, as is apparent from indications in the play texts.
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The intriguing sensible-nonsense manifested in the various understandings of lyric and music inpopularsongis something that is often a feature of the most basic of musical song-forms.
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However, away back in the 1930s there was apopularsongwhose refrain was.
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It is not unknown to link the words of apopularsongto a political thought.
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