How to Use song cycle in a Sentence

song cycle

noun

• The Wrong Man is based on a rock-song cycle by Ross Golan about a drifter framed for murder.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019
• Thile sings much of the time, but this is hardly a formal song cycle either.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The album is a song cycle inspired by Marie Curie’s life and research.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
• From there, a new song cycle explored how the world experiences the black man and vice versa.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• However, Tritschler showed that a tenor can do this song cycle justice.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Because this documentary song cycle is about loss: of minds, rings, a dog, the hour badly spent.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• He was asked to work with a classical composer and write a song cycle for a youth orchestra.
  — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 3 Oct. 2017
• The concert's centerpiece is a song cycle by Margaret Bonds that gave the concert its title.
  — Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
• The album is a noisy, sprawling, genre-hopping song cycle steeped in everything from disco to free jazz.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Under lockdown, Van Etten wrote and recorded a song cycle inspired by these events, but one that will not be dated by them.
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 6 May 2022
• Bareilles did not so much write a traditional Broadway score as a song cycle, very much within the existing style that had gained her so many fans.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
• How about a song cycle based on a book set in an actual mental institution?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Nov. 2021
• These, along with his chamber operas and song cycles, are among today’s most frequently produced new works.
  — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 23 July 2019
• Fanciful pantomime animals help the band through a song cycle about closeness, loss, and healing.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Drake frequently appears in his dad’s celebrity Instagram and put Graham’s picture on the cover of his 2017 song cycle More Life.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 31 May 2018
• But everything is new somewhere for someone and for Mr. Ratmansky, who makes dances to music, Mr. Ablinger’s song cycles seem to have unlocked something.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
• It’s constructed like a song cycle in the same vein as Kississippi’s Mood Ring, which takes a similar approach to its narrative sonics.
  — Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
• The story could have ended there, but in 1977 composer Andrew Lloyd Webber began turning it into a song cycle.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2015
• His creative palete includes chamber and electro-acoustic music, choral music and string quartets, song cycles and serialism, the past and the present, to forge new artistic paths.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
• Propelled by 9th Wonder’s beats, the unit wove themes including desire, love and betrayal into a lush seven-song cycle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2020
• His voice is sort of a rest cure from the truck-driver singing of grand opera, with superb diction and natural vocal elegance that should be an excellent fit with Schubert’s great song cycle.
  — Bethany Ao, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Others have turned to putting new works on podcasts, benefit concerts or offering a song cycle online.
  — John Carucci, Fortune, 5 May 2020
• But what believer ever responded so warmly to texts as consolatory as the six in this choral song cycle?
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
• Hummon had embarked on a modest song cycle about Douglass, after reading one of his three autobiographies that was performed at a Nashville church in the mid-2010s.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 July 2022
• Perfectly Broken and coming-of-age song cycle Redheaded Friend.
  — Robert Burke Warren, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2020
• Obama speeches are the inspiration for an orchestral song cycle having its world premiere Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• His subject matter is explicit and personal, the album a song cycle brimming with ghosts – four siblings who died tragically young.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• After presenting some of them as a song cycle at his annual theater festival at his estate in Sydmonton, Lloyd Webber got the idea to turn it into a full-blown musical.
  — Marshall Heyman, Town & Country, 19 Dec. 2019
• The thrill of hearing such attention lavished on orchestral filigrees and curlicues is an essentially old-fashioned pleasure, and Pigments sounds more like a chamber-pop song cycle than one of Richard’s steely solo records.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 26 Dec. 2022
• Her stage persona is funny, irreverent and approachable, her band is terrific and her songs cycle lushly through a whole range of moods, from dance-party exuberance to mournful darkness.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024