Sentence examples for sets lyrics from inspiring English sources
Her album "Footprints," from last year, sets lyrics to classic jazz instrumentals.
Mr. Amidon, who sets lyrics from traditional songs to his own alluring music, noted that folk songs often meshed dark lyrics with happy melodies.
Midway through the set, the Killers played their most knowing anthem: "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll," which sets lyrics about the low-budget realm of indie-rock to an old-fashioned arena-rock buildup.
Keyed to Friday night's scheduled episode of HBO's "Sonic Highways" in which Dave Grohl and his bandmates visit Music City, "Congregation" sets lyrics about Southern Ground and a bluebird singing in the round against jangly guitars and a crisp power-pop beat.
He responded to an advertisement in the back of a magazine promising to set lyrics to music, but he soon realized it was just a scam.
Ms. Redbone brought her Roots Project, an Appalachian-style string band (and drummer) that backed her in songs setting lyrics by William Blake, from her 2012 album "The Garden of Love," getting rustic with his parables.
Matisyahu, whose songs set lyrics about spirituality and Jewish history to bass-heavy reggae beats, is more explicitly devotional with his annual "Festival of Lights" shows; in the past they have featured dreidel-shaped disco balls and Hebrew blessings.
3. Jack Black and Will Ferrell for the Best Song award in 2003 This was an interesting and potentially funny idea: taking the tune that the band strikes up when a speech goes on too long, and setting lyrics to it.
Without Ghostlight, a small gem like "Songs From an Unmade Bed," a theatrical song cycle in which 18 different composers set lyrics of Mark Campbell into a thematic suite, beautifully performed by Michael Winther, might have disappeared.
That song is as good an introduction as any to Doves' weird habit of setting lyrics mired in soul-searching melancholy to music that is euphoric - not in the surging, keep-your-chin-up style of post-Coldplay stadium rock, but in the boggle-eyed hands-in-the-air style of the dancefloor.
The Crown-in-Council established set lyrics for "O Canada" in Canada's two official languages.
