Sentence examples for song narrative from inspiring English sources
The gambuh, respected for its age, contains elements of dramatic dance, song, narrative, and characterization found in later forms.
In these and other types of Asian drama, all the elements of the performing arts are made by usage to combine to perfection: dance and mime, speech and song, narrative and poetry.
The East Asian audience is prepared to respond in quick succession to a sequence of different stimuli physical characterization, human speech, song, narrative commentary, visual composition, formal movement patterns over long periods of time, for 8 hours in Noh or up to 12 hours in Kabuki.
Meanwhile his songwriting had shifted from the fablelike song narratives — most written before he was 21 — that defined the first album.
This centuries-old traditional Korean art form features a specially trained singer who, together with a percussionist, presents evening-length song narratives built on folk tales and originally developed to provide both entertainment and moral education to the listeners.
Slovenia, in central Europe, has held on to two kinds of unaccompanied seasonal songs: narrative songs so rhythmic they could be Slovene hip-hop, and choral songs declaimed in major-key harmonies, both originally sung by groups of English carolers.
The book is divided into seven sections containing more than 100 odes, popular songs, narrative poems, and anthems in which Hugo denounces injustice and tyranny and rails against Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III) and the abuses of the Second Empire.
My favorite songs are narrative songs, short stories that can be recounted in three minutes.
(Side note: it was fascinating to watch Randy making actual points about the songs' narratives instead of just saying "bomb" and "hot" all night long).
As the photographs proceeded, Aziz Tamoyan, a Yazidi mourner from Armenia, began a traditional melodized speech known as a kilamê ser — half song, half narrative story.
Each song, each narrative, is in effect acted out.
