barcarole

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Recent Examples on the Web The barcarole that sentimentally takes Pierrot home back to Bergamo, with a moonbeam for a rudder and a water lily for a boat, gets its sinister, otherworldly wind for its sails from the full quintet up to its eerie tricks. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
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Noun
  • The Northwest Arkansas Women's Chorus, previously the Bella Vista Women's Chorus, sings a wide variety of musical selections ranging from popular songs, show tunes, folk songs and spiritual arrangements to classic compositions of Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst and Johannes Brahms.
    Deb Harvell, arkansasonline.com, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The film tells the story of a young poet and singer steeped in an ancient Moroccan form of folk song called aita, but forced to perform trashy pop songs in bars filled with abusive men.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 May 2024
Noun
  • The music moves from inventive, engaging art song to smoldering improvisations in which Wilkins and his bandmates—anchored by his regular colleagues Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass and Kweku Sumbry on drums—push to the outer limits.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 21 Oct. 2024
  • As a map of Austin’s musical journey, the recital moved through spirituals and standard repertoire into 20th-century and contemporary art song and opera.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Some of the potential fates can also make everyone cackle with wicked glee like a table full of witches.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Wallace points out that many Satoshi investigators have been bedevilled by faulty pattern-matching, a particular vulnerability for those who have seized upon superficial stylistic similarities with unwarranted glee.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Close behind is American rockers The Offspring with Supercharged (Concord/Universal), new at No. 4.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2024
  • However, the company didn’t recall those particular products, which convert from an infant seat to a rocker for toddlers.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • LeVar Burton has spent years as a constant, edifying, steadying presence in American pop culture.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Brody was Seth Cohen, Gallagher’s son obsessed with comic books and pop culture.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Still, Butterworth and Mendes display a wonderful theatrical intelligence throughout, particularly in the little showstoppers—musical performances, or arias of insult—that punctuate the night.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Though his features are few — the character never gets an aria of his own — his voice is a thing of multifarious sumptuousness.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • One week after the death of band member Liam Payne, all five of One Direction’s albums have returned to high positions in the UK music chart, along with the singer’s solo album.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Elliot Mintz On His Decade With John And Yoko Excited about New solo album, POPPED!
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.
    Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021

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“Barcarole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barcarole. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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