How to Use song cycle in a Sentence

song cycle

noun
  • Was that an influence on you trying to sort of write in terms of a song cycle?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Thile sings much of the time, but this is hardly a formal song cycle either.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • However, Tritschler showed that a tenor can do this song cycle justice.
    — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • From there, a new song cycle explored how the world experiences the black man and vice versa.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The album is a song cycle inspired by Marie Curie’s life and research.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
  • He was asked to work with a classical composer and write a song cycle for a youth orchestra.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 3 Oct. 2017
  • How about a song cycle based on a book set in an actual mental institution?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The album is a noisy, sprawling, genre-hopping song cycle steeped in everything from disco to free jazz.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • It could also be called a song cycle that employs ear-piercing rock and, for respite, a welcoming string quartet.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The Wrong Man is based on a rock-song cycle by Ross Golan about a drifter framed for murder.
    — Adam Green, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019
  • This eight-piece song cycle was written in response to the true story of the brutal killings of three women by the same ex-boyfriend, on the same day.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • This song cycle follows the journey of a mother haunted by the challenges of parenthood.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The Art of the Lie seems to present itself as a song cycle about coming to terms with your parents as an older gay man.
    — Alfred Soto, SPIN, 14 June 2024
  • Fanciful pantomime animals help the band through a song cycle about closeness, loss, and healing.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Others have turned to putting new works on podcasts, benefit concerts or offering a song cycle online.
    — John Carucci, Fortune, 5 May 2020
  • The concert's centerpiece is a song cycle by Margaret Bonds that gave the concert its title.
    — Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Under lockdown, Van Etten wrote and recorded a song cycle inspired by these events, but one that will not be dated by them.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 6 May 2022
  • Bareilles did not so much write a traditional Broadway score as a song cycle, very much within the existing style that had gained her so many fans.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • But what believer ever responded so warmly to texts as consolatory as the six in this choral song cycle?
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
  • But Peck’s approach, which imagines the album as a song cycle in which a group of hikers goes into the woods to tell stories around a campfire, drew her in.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Propelled by 9th Wonder’s beats, the unit wove themes including desire, love and betrayal into a lush seven-song cycle.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2020
  • His creative palete includes chamber and electro-acoustic music, choral music and string quartets, song cycles and serialism, the past and the present, to forge new artistic paths.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Perfectly Broken and coming-of-age song cycle Redheaded Friend.
    — Robert Burke Warren, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2020
  • His voice is sort of a rest cure from the truck-driver singing of grand opera, with superb diction and natural vocal elegance that should be an excellent fit with Schubert’s great song cycle.
    — Bethany Ao, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The song cycle, based on Thomas’ own experience, co-stars mezzo-soprano Deborah Nansteel.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • It’s constructed like a song cycle in the same vein as Kississippi’s Mood Ring, which takes a similar approach to its narrative sonics.
    — Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Trixies is a song cycle centering on a mythical bar and its working class stiffs and gangsters that’s one-part Cheers, the other The Untouchables.
    — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The song cycle, presented by Schubert Club Mix, plays between chamber singing and contemporary production.
    — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Who doesn’t revisit this virtually symphonic song cycle about lonely adolescence without considering it one of the 10 best records ever made?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 May 2026
  • But the book’s ruminative watchfulness is unsuccessfully conjugated in this overly sedate play with music, which has the feel of a song cycle, though sung by the fine cast with gorgeous, lonely sorrow.
    — Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 19 June 2026

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