Sentence examples for sung text from inspiring English sources

When a sung text takes hold of us, which is the more active force?

(It is a pity, though, that only the program notes, and not the sung text, are translated into English).

Works combining spoken words and sung text in local languages German, French, and English were fairly common, and these more-accessible works had periods of great local popularity.

The sung text of Audibles was inspired by a trip Lucier once took to a cafe in Italy with American maverick composer Robert Ashley.

Elizabeth Cragg contributes a distraught presence as Mrs Green, circling the performing space in never-ending mourning, though not enough of her sung text comes over.

Unexpected, too, are the disparities between sung text and musical line, where the words of phrases often speed to an end before the music beneath them has run its course.

My job was to start with the fragments, the sung texts.

Sensibly, the sung texts are in the familiar German; spoken texts — updated as usual with topical humor — in English.

Even the first two acts were fragmentary, with the music and sung texts intact, but the linking spoken dramas missing.

My versions of Zaide's sung texts are sometimes closer to Lowell's imitations than to academic translations.

The earlier works are shorn of their programmatic titles and sung texts, and reworked into, simply, symphonies, predominantly grave and serious.