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In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...
Kunpeng may refer to: Kun and Peng , two forms of a creature from Chinese mythology Kunpeng Airlines , former name of Henan Airlines, charter airline based in northern China
In Chinese literature, the Daoist classic Zhuangzi has the oldest record of the Kun Peng myth. The first chapter ("Free and Easy Wandering" 逍遙遊 pinyin xiāoyáoyóu) begins with three versions of this parable; the lead paragraph, a quote from the Qixie (齊諧 "Universal Harmony", probably invented by Zhuangzi), and a quote from the Tang zhi wen Ji (湯之問棘 "Questions of Tang to Ji ...
The song "Swinging the Alphabet" is sung by The Three Stooges in their short film Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938). It is the only full-length song performed by the Stooges in their short films, and the only time they mimed to their own pre-recorded soundtrack. The lyrics use each letter of the alphabet to make a nonsense verse of the song:
This is a glossary of jazz and popular music terms that are likely to be encountered in printed popular music songbooks, fake books and vocal scores, big band scores, jazz, and rock concert reviews, and album liner notes.
The Strokes performed "The Adults Are Talking" on Saturday Night Live on October 31, 2020, and a music video for the song, directed by Roman Coppola, was released on December 1. Commercially, the song reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart and No. 31 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart.
John Legend has a special place in his heart for one specific song.. While chatting with reporters in the press room at the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, the singer, 46, opened up ...
Songs with more than one voice to a part singing in polyphony or harmony are considered choral works. Songs can be broadly divided into many different forms and types, depending on the criteria used. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word "song" may refer to instrumentals, such as the 19th century Songs Without Words pieces for ...