epic song

collocation in English

meaningsofepicandsong

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epic
adjective
uk
/ˈep.ɪk/us
/ˈep.ɪk/
in the style of ...
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song
noun
uk
/sɒŋ/us
/sɑːŋ/
a usually short piece of music with words that ...
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(Definition ofepicandsongfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Petrucci stated that the band wanted to write anepicsongthat thematically developed and would use an orchestra.
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The album features the band's distinctepicsongstructure, melded to fast paced melodic riffing.
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It's anepicsongfilled with beautiful harmonies and musical touches that match the lyric.
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The mangey player (mangiwal) carries the rhythmical pattern to accompany the rubab or harmonium players in instrumental music or vocal epic songs.
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However, they excelled in oral composition, which they artistically employed in their traditional poetry and epic songs.
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He was born in 1936, and he started singing mostly rapsodi and epic songs since he was very young.
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He also supported the transition from epic songs to lyric songs.
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Blind from early childhood, unable to earn for living otherwise, he sang the traditional epic songs and composed many by himself.
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It became a consensus that magical incantations were the oldest form, from which epic songs evolved.
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During his collecting, he focused mainly on folktales because he thought they had been overlooked in the search for epic songs.
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Mileti named all folk epic songs he recorded as histories because they have been considered as histories in the form of poems.
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The epic tradition is also preserved in epic songs sung with gusle.
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The epic songs are fairly rhythmic melodic chants.
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Lyric songs were the most innovative form and emerged from epic songs.
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Lahutas sound is nasal and fits very well with the content of epic songs.
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Ogawa questioned the transition from epic songs to lyric songs.
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