songtext

plural songtexts · alternative song-text

1. The written words to a song; lyrics.

   The songtexts are in rhymed verses, and each line is repeated once.

   2013, The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music - Volume 2 - Page 859

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   The use of songtext, therefore, was important as a literary medium and as a means of recording oral traditions and events of historical ... Songtext may also be considered as an important factor in determining emotional effect of musical sound.

   1986, Ultimate reality and meaning, volumes 9-10, page 47

   Next to this is a separate column for the songtext — which does not always give the words of the text, at the most a few catchwords, headed by the word: [...]

   1992, Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen, The Bedhaya Court Dances of Central Java

   “No doubt,” writes LèviStrauss (in his analysis which ignores the performative, social, colonial and microhistorical contexts of the song-text), “the purpose of such an alteration in the details of the myth is to elicit the corresponding organic reaction, [...]”

   2012, Michael Taussig, The Nervous System