song cycle

noun

: a group of related songs designed to form a musical entity

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Five years ago, when the world was thrust into the devastation of the pandemic, the composer Michael Hersch embarked on what would become a twenty-nine-piece song cycle. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025 The work takes the form of a song cycle tracing the nightmarish voyage of a psychotic mind trapped in a liminal state between life and death. Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 As a writer and composer, Finn did not shy away from darker themes, including with his song cycle Elegies, which featured songs about friends dying from AIDS as well as a response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2025 The two-person song cycle co-stars mezzo-soprano Deborah Nansteel. Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for song cycle

Word History

First Known Use

1870, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of song cycle was in 1870

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“Song cycle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/song%20cycle. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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