Word: iyric
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...such a manner as to confound any attempt by the audience to sing along. In last night's rendition, the chorus of "I Shall Be Released" became a defiant cry rather than a moving affirmation, and Dylan's spitfire version of "Maggie's Farm" emphasized driving anger rather than Iyric comprehension. In other words, you knew he was mad but couldn't understand what he was saying, Only once in the hour-and-a-half long set did Dylan shed his rough edges, for the graceful acoustic ballad "Most of the Time," as he sang,"I don't even...
Leon Kirchner, Rosen Professor of Music and one of the judgest in the contest, said yesterday the text and the music will receive equal weight in the judges' decision. "Musicians never separate the music from the Iyric. Good music is good music," Kirchner said...
...most useful revelations of Strong Opinions is of the way Nabokov thinks in images, not words, during the first stage of writing. In his brilliant piece on "Inspiration," he describes how Ada took form from a single inspired, Iyric section that gave tone and texture to the whole book. Writing the book means approximating in the best words available something that already exists in a mental realm from which Nabokov rescues, recreates, excavates it. A subtle relation between levels of possibility--in thought and in vocabulary--participates in the creation of the words that firmly but transparently exist there...
...Emigrants, the first half of his film epic on the immigrant experience, Swedish director Jan Troell celebrated and plumbed this myth, seeking its depths in the varying responses of a small band of Scandinavian peasants to the enormity of their voyage to America. With painstaking care and Iyric skill, Troell traced the slow dissolution of the family's way of life in rural Sweden, the unrelenting sequence of deaths, injuries, famines and persecutions by which they came to know that their life there could...
...song on Journey is unsatisfying Particular achievements, include "Open Up, Summertime," a jaunty ode to summer that wryly understates an oft-expressed continent: "Drop me in a sunny spot/I'd rather be hot than not," "Poem to Eat" combines Siemen's haunting, bittersweet music with an evocative Iyric by Pran Landesman; the singer hawks his verses: "Dine on a poem. Take one on home," "King Lear's Blues" tells of a man so broken-hearted he believes he is Lear, suicidal and yet paradoxically end, to have suffered, "Big city Traffic Jam" is a miniature concerto for piano and street...