Meaning of songish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Consisting of or containing songs.
   obsolete
2. Characteristic of a song; songlike
   rare

Equivalents

Examples

“The other, which, for want⟳ of a proper English word, I must call⟳ the songish part, must abound in the softness and variety of numbers; its principal intention being to please⟳ the hearing, [...]”

“I have⟳ struck off what I am sure would be objected to as not songish enough for the taste⟳ of the day. The air will now require⟳ to be sung each four lines, which I think⟳ answers as well as repeating each part.”

“This turning away from the performed, songish traits of the cantares, which seems an inevitable result⟳ of the inscriptive technology that brings them to us, breaks down any number⟳ of other metonymic connections of these songs to the indigenous world.”

“The anamnesis might even take⟳ the form⟳, finally, of a meditation on how a musicology might constitute itself from a conceptual frame of sufficient breadth to see⟳ that song, the universal corollary of the human propensity toward language, is not so much a musical thing as music is songish.”

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