songful

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But the sublimity of Soper’s songful material needs no great explication — just check out her setting of Yeats’s “For Anne Gregory” in “Fragments.”

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

Mr. Peacock’s “raw charisma and fiery temperament could almost match Ayler in songful intensity,” pianist Ethan Iverson wrote in Jazz Times magazine in April.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2020

The jaunty, songful theme that opens the movie sets a mood that Caine catches breezily—even if the character of Alfie himself is sordid and sleazy in a way that the music doesn’t at all imply.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2017

It included the West Coast premiere of a convivial new Double Concerto for violin and cello, written for Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson, with an irresistibly songful slow movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2015

Lo, the voice of your redeemer; lo, the songful morning near.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis