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Song cycle
Group of songs designed to be performed in sequence as a single entity
Song cycle
A song cycle (German: Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group or cycle of individually complete songs designed to be performed in sequence as a unit. The songs are either for solo voice or an ensemble, or rarely a combination of solo songs mingled with choral pieces. The number of songs in a song cycle may be as brief as two songs or as long as 30 or more songs. The term "song cycle" did not enter lexicography until 1865, in Arrey von Dommer's edition of Koch's Musikalisches Lexikon, but works definable in retrospect as song cycles existed long before then. One of the earliest examples may be the set of seven Cantigas de amigo by the 13th-century Galician jongleur Martin Codax. Jeffrey Mark identified the group of dialect songs 'Hodge und Malkyn' from Thomas Ravenscroft's The Briefe Discourse (1614) as the first of a number of early 17th-century examples in England. A song cycle is similar to a song collection, and the two can be difficult to distinguish. Some form of coherence, however...
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