Noun: songtext
| Singular | songtext |
| Plural | songtexts |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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“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:]
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The songtexts are in rhymed verses, and each line is repeated once. [2013, The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music - Volume 2 - Page 859]
Nouns inflected like songtext
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From song + text. Compare Dutch songtekst (“lyrics”). See: Dutch Nouns '
songtekst'.
Verbs referencing "songtext"
German Nouns
Songtext.