Sentence examples for serious song from inspiring English sources

Later he mocked the notion of such a thing as "a serious song".

A highlight was Mr. Pietri, always dressed in black, leading the crowd in singing "The Spanglish National Anthem," a satirical and serious song which chronicles the hard-knock life of stateside Puerto Ricans.

In Lasciami!, a surprisingly serious song by Tosti, Puccini's Sole e Amore, and two of Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, she entered into the varied moods of each item, articulating them perfectly.

This is a serious song about an extremely serious subject that succeeds because of its restraint and complete synchronicity of form with content, of music with lyric, of feeling with imagination.

At the end, when the guy gets rejoined by his arm up in Heaven — Cash gets the laugh!" "It's fun to throw a couple of laughs into a serious song," Loudon said.

Irving Fine's "Serious Song: A Lament for String Orchestra" (1955) was an object lesson in the boundaries between sweeping lyricism and treacly indulgence, and Charles Wuorinen's "Grand Bamboula" (1970) examined the other extreme: the ways of bringing a tart edge to a string choir without pushing it into sourness.

There was utter silence for Brahms's "Four Serious Songs".

The Five Songs (Op. 94) offered melancholy ruminations on growing old; the Four Serious Songs (Op.

These are serious songs for adults, not radio-ready pop hits.

Even in its most serious songs, "White Pepper" always contains a wink of irony.

"I've tried writing darker, more serious songs but they don't go anywhere," he says.