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The word as we first heard it was super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus. [9] Dictionary.com meanwhile says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." [10] The word contains 34 letters and 14 syllables.
Lyric Poetry (1896) Henry Oliver Walker, in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building.. Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. [1]
The personal nature of many of the verses of the Nine Lyric Poets led to the present sense of "lyric poetry" but the original Greek sense of "lyric poetry"—"poetry accompanied by the lyre" i.e. "words set to music"—eventually led to its use as "lyrics", first attested in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. [5]
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:
Lyric may refer to: Lyrics, the words, often in verse form, which are sung, usually to a melody, and constitute the semantic content of a song; Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view; Lyric, from the Greek language, a song that is played with a lyre
While proper lyric setting has positive effects, improper lyric setting has negative effects. A mis-stressed lyric is a word with one or more stressed and/or unstressed syllables that do not properly align with the strong and weak beats of a measure, and, therefore, neither preserve the natural shape of the language nor promote prosody.
A phrase is a substantial musical thought, which ends with a musical punctuation called a cadence. Phrases are created in music through an interaction of melody, harmony, and rhythm. [3] Giuseppe Cambini—a composer, violinist, and music teacher of the Classical period—had this to say about bowed string instruments, specifically violin ...
A mondegreen (/ ˈ m ɒ n d ɪ ˌ ɡ r iː n / ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. [1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.