metasong

plural metasongs

1. A song about a song.

   The poem as lyric becomes a type of metasong. It is a song about universal rhythm.

   1992, Robert Lecker, Jack David, Ellen Quigley, editors, Canadian Writers and Their Work: Poetry series, volume 8, ECW Press, page 83

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   Parsons takes the gift and sings Melissa a responsive song, wherein her “unmov’d” song turns through its “unmov’d” hearer to a kind of metasong about the freedom that art offers.

   1995, Elaine Scarry, Fins-de-siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 118

   The Song of Songs is a metasong, so to speak, sung on a level of abstraction higher or deeper than the others.

   2011, Duncan Robertson, Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading, Liturgical Press, page 183