By contrast, French troubadours might band together with performers (jongleurs) to give lyric performances, backed by a rich patron, about knights' adventures, courtly love and bawdy bedroom antics.
Other songs that had a moody darkness in Buckley solos were opened up by giving lyrics to various characters.
In the English-horn solo in the Largo of the "New World" he created an ersatz spiritual, which was later given lyrics and a title, "Goin' Home".
Mr. Cermele gives lyrics such an upbeat tilt that at several points in Friday's show, he conjured up memories of Bert Parks presenting a new Miss America.
Ritter's piece fully deserves its fresh airing given lyrics that could reflect an imagined worst-case-scenario of a Trump presidency.
The pièce de résistance was his performance of "It's All in the Game," an early 20th century melody written by future U.S. Vice President Charles Dawes, given lyrics in 1951 by songwriter Carl Sigman and popularly recorded in 1958 by Tommy Edwards.
These contradictions were never fully teased apart, leaving listeners justifiably confused as to whether a given lyric purported to be fiction, nonfiction, or, somehow, both.
Renaissance polyphony — the ravishingly complex tradition of choral writing that stretches from Guillaume Dufay, in the early fifteenth century, to Tomás de Victoria, at the end of the sixteenth — does for the ears what the Sistine Chapel does for the eyes, giving lyric shape to divine power.
John Steinbeck's 1939 novel is, for all its hoary gestures, a passionately political work, showing in excruciating detail the fate of an Oklahoma family during the Great Depression, and Gordon, working in tandem with his librettist, Michael Korie, has found ways to leave its rage intact, even as he gives lyric voice to the suffering Joad clan.
After receiving a great response from the crowd at an event in Covent Garden, Sharshek and Roper began rolling out their brand of live music – where the audience is given lyric sheets and encouraged to join in – across different venues in the West End.
