In the absence of a stage, lights or a sound system, the concert is reduced to its essentials: the lyrics, the songwriter, the song.
She had invited them to her parade (hats essential), and distributed lyrics, kazoos, whistles and cymbals.
And while a basic grasp of Philippines history is helpful, it is not essential, as the lyrics and banks of video monitors explicate the action.
She has stated that honesty is essential to her lyrics, saying, "If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care.
In an undergraduate essay from 1865, Gerard Manley Hopkins says that the essential quality of lyric poetry should be considered "as regularity or likeness tempered by irregularity or difference".
In a sense the Greeks invented poetry, as the term itself has a Greek derivation, and so many essential forms – epic, lyric, elegy, ode – were Greek inventions.
Next time: Ernie explains how a scientific mind was essential to Yip's lyric writing.
A new collection of words intended to be sung through, in which Muldoon, that most musical of poets, playfully explores the essential meaning of the term "lyric".
The lyric sheet is essential to get any measure of the undoubtedly high-concept narrative, but the music is some of their most approachable and enjoyable yet, with extra depths to be plumbed if you so desire.
This brand of lyric pedantry is essential Penn, and you see it most frostily purveyed in his color closeups of the late seventies, when he somehow succeeded in lighting and shooting frozen foods—small bergs of beans and raspberries without having them melt all over his feet.
