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In Germany the trochaic tetrameter (on account of its songlike quality) became a standard meter for Protestant songs and in this genre became customary in lofty themes.

Just the opposite, they are airy and songlike."(59) To Glatshteyn's mind, Mani Leyb's novelty is not only his innovative musicality but really a kind of pre-semantic deployment of words in which meaning is subordinate to sound.

ISLAMABAD -- Certain birds can learn how to produce songlike vocalisations, a prerequisite to learning new songs, researchers also believe that some animals enjoy similar aspects of sounds just as certain people enjoy.

The birds would begin fluttery conversations, bursting into songlike passages of intense harmony that rose and fell in the highest of pitches.

This has been demonstrated by researchers investigating not only bird songs but also the songlike sounds emitted by mice.

Unsupported by the more fully realized, songlike structure of the source poem, the single closing couplet in English trivializes.

These two parts always have shorter lines and a more insistent rhythm than do other parts; they usually introduce rhyme; they tend to be lyrical, or songlike; and in the later Quartets, they have regular, songlike stanzas.

As Barrett demonstrates persuasively, conceptual and formal depth is as present in the songlike verse of newspaper and popular writing as in the more traditional literary canon.

Emily Dickinson, a 19th century American poet and accomplished pianist, whose poems are considered to be songlike, was greatly influenced by music.

4 offered something totally different, and it was clear from the songlike grace of the opening that it would be an intensely lyrical interpretation.

xii): "The treatises of both singers and actors of the period expose an almost uncanny tendency among the lyric arts--what the French called the arts de dire--to merge into one an other, the actor's recitations becoming songlike, and the songs like recitations." In the nineteenth century, Italian composers did not need to write things such as tempo rubato into the score: it was an oral tradition and every singer would know how to apply it, if for no other reason than the composer was usually there to coach the singer.

It was her form of lyric verse, subjective and unrhymed, a little songlike but with a rigor, a tradition of fixed order, only backwards, to test the presence of another kind of reversal, which a doctor nicely named retrogenesis" (188).

In Mouth is mostly silent, with the exception of a few tapping sounds and songlike moans compiled by the choreographer.

In an ongoing debate, that negative finding may dampen hopes that the high-pitched, songlike mouse vocalizations could join human speech and the sounds of songbirds, certain marine mammals and a few other creatures as examples of vocal learning through imitation.

While the concerto, like all of the composer's wind concertos, gives the soloist plenty of opportunities to demonstrate technical prowess, it is in the songlike passages that the instrument is most glorious.