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Romance :: Romance (n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.

Lyric :: Lyric (n.) A composer of lyric poems.

Pastoral :: Pastoral (n.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.

Lyrical :: Lyrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

Melic :: Melic () Of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful.

Lyricism :: Lyricism (n.) A lyric composition.

Lyrical :: Lyrical (a.) Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet..

Pindaric :: Pindaric (a.) Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes..

Troubadour :: Troubadour (n.) One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain..

Lyric :: Lyric (n.) A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Alcaic :: Alcaic (a.) Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c..

Hymnic :: Hymnic (a.) Relating to hymns, or sacred lyrics..

Song :: Song (n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.

Lyric :: Lyric (n.) The words of a song.

Hymn :: Hymn (n.) An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns..

Hymnology :: Hymnology (n.) The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology..

Ode :: Ode (n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style..

Epode :: Epode (n.) A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich..

Polyhymnia :: Polyhymnia (n.) The Muse of lyric poetry.

Lyrist :: Lyrist (n.) A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.

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