Song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing. A choral or vocal song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs. The lyrics (words) of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, though they may be religious verses or free prose.

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Famous quotes containing the word song:

    “Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Song of Solomon, 8:6.

    “Death could drop from the dark
    As easily as song—
    But song only dropped,”
    —Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)

    “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
    If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXXVII (l. CXXXVII, 4–5)