Sentence examples for constitute song from inspiring English sources

Biologists still argue over whether or not some animals' vocalizations constitute song or mere noise, and even scientists who study the origins of life on Earth have no firm definition of what life itself is.

For most birds the production of calls and simple songs is largely innate, but a subgroup of birds known as the vocal learners, which includes the parrots, hummingbirds and oscine songbirds, are endowed with a specialized network of brain nuclei that constitute a "song system" allowing them to produce broad repertoires of songs that are more complex and flexible than the songs of other birds [12].

Important stories that deal with the activities of perhaps just one or two of the ancestral figures and belong to adjacent areas and adjacent clans may constitute a song cycle.

For most electronic music, the character of a sound indeed constitutes the song.

He said he questioned the whole notion of what constitutes a song, or an album.

Three stanzas or a multiple of three constituted a song, or Bar (the musical Bar form provided music for one stanza).

These may be used to frame words or may be inserted among them; in some cases, they constitute the entire song text.

His shows at the Sports Arena hold an extra measure of emotion as they constitute the swan song for the 59-year-old facility he's played repeatedly since his first performances there in 1980 on the original tour for "The River".

A cynical reading of "Reputation" — and the one I find myself leaning toward the more I listen to this excellent record — suggests that the love songs constitute mere damage control in Swift's bumpy transition to pop avenger.

The 10 songs constitute a smattering of the chart-topping adult contemporary fare Barack Obama or Vladimir Putin might have caught if they tuned into BBC Radio 2 while cruising around the Lough Erne Resort.

American Indian song texts constitute a genre of poetry in terms of structure, style, and expression.