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 also uncovered the songful properties of a row of carefully tuned flower pots in “part 3,” an arrestingly poetic movement and one of the highlights of Thursday’s program.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2016

Meanwhile, his mother and Morgan continued their talk; but he could no longer hear what they said; the noise of the car and his uncle's songful mood prevented.

From The Magnificent Ambersons by Tarkington, Booth