How to Use song cycle in a Sentence
song cycle
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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
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Thile sings much of the time, but this is hardly a formal song cycle either.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
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The album is a song cycle inspired by Marie Curie’s life and research.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
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From there, a new song cycle explored how the world experiences the black man and vice versa.
—Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 21 Feb. 2018
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However, Tritschler showed that a tenor can do this song cycle justice.
—Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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The concert's centerpiece is a song cycle by Margaret Bonds that gave the concert its title.
—Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
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The album is a noisy, sprawling, genre-hopping song cycle steeped in everything from disco to free jazz.
—Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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How about a song cycle based on a book set in an actual mental institution?
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Nov. 2021
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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
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Fanciful pantomime animals help the band through a song cycle about closeness, loss, and healing.
—John Timpane, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Others have turned to putting new works on podcasts, benefit concerts or offering a song cycle online.
—John Carucci, Fortune, 5 May 2020
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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
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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
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Perfectly Broken and coming-of-age song cycle Redheaded Friend.
—Robert Burke Warren, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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