Sentence examples for self-contained songs from inspiring English sources

"The King Is Dead," instead, is a collection of self-contained songs, and they rely on acoustic guitars and rootsy, neo-Celtic melodies.

But I had a notebook full of self-contained songs composed through the years, and I had an itch that somehow they could become more than the sum of their parts.

This record, by contrast, is more like a day in the working life of a small band: self-contained songs and structures, swinging or free, all representing the Chicago ideal of unassuming art that reaches far beyond its matte finish.

After completing the songs, Humperdinck set about making an opera from the text, first as a singspiel - a sequence of self-contained songs with dialogue, which he presented to his fiancee as an engagement present at the end of 1890 - and then, more slowly, as a full-scale opera, through-composed and complete with orchestral interludes, which was completed in 1893.

Of the 35 musical numbers, only one, "Way Back to Paradise," is a self-contained song that ends with a clean break for applause.

Trullie builds self-contained pop-rock songs.

It scales back to self-contained verse-and-chorus songs.

None of which detracts from the pervasive atmospherics of his songs – self-contained dramas, all of them, dark and glacially cool, their spare settings (courtesy of producer and soul-technician Sohn) recalling Haddaway, Seal and other evocative sounds from the early 1990s.

For anyone who prizes the miniature, self-contained dramas of the art-song repertory, Mr. Owens did precisely the right thing: he devoted his recital to German and French songs, with a Wagner rarity as common ground, sort of: "Les Deux Grenadiers" has a French text (actually, a translation of a Heine poem) and quotes the melody of the "Marseillaise" in its final section.

Her original aim was to make each song a self-contained project, getting her out of the studio to experiment with new technologies, collaborate with musicians and fans alike, and see the world.

Mason draws a distinction between this and Britten's earlier cycles, because here each song is self-contained, and has no thematic connection with any of the others.