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  2. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    Some bands have invented a language for their lyrics; examples include Kobaïan, used by French progressive rock band Magma, and Vonlenska, also called Hopelandic, employed by the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. Adriano Celentano's 1972 song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" is sung in gibberish that is meant to sound like American English.

  3. Semiotics of music videos - Wikipedia

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    The music video for Peter Gabriel's song "Sledgehammer" is an example of a formally unorganized music video. Generally music videos can be said to contain visuals that either represent the potential connotative meaning of the lyrics or a semiotic system of its own. Although many analysts would explain a music video as a narrative structure ...

  4. Gospel music - Wikipedia

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    Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for the marketplace. Gospel music is characterized by dominant vocals and strong use of harmony with Christian lyrics. Gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century. [1]

  5. Use This Gospel - Wikipedia

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    "Use This Gospel" was produced by West, Mexican-American music producer Angel Lopez, DrtWrk, Vindver, and Timbaland, while co-produced by BoogzDaBeast and Pi'erre Bourne. [ b ] [ 31 ] References tracks by Dua Lipa for "Law of Attraction" were part of an internet leak in July 2019, while full versions of her performing the original leaked in ...

  6. Word Crimes - Wikipedia

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    The song's music video, a lyric video, was released on the same day of the album's release, the second in a series of eight consecutive video releases. The video is a kinetic typography video created by Jarrett Heather, which plays on the song's theme of proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

  7. Contrafactum - Wikipedia

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    In vocal music, contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music". [1] The earliest known examples of this procedure (sometimes referred to as ''adaptation'') date back to the 9th century used in connection with Gregorian chant.

  8. Music censorship - Wikipedia

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    Also that month, Madonna's then-upcoming music video for "American Life" generated controversy due to its politicized and "unpatriotic" imagery in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, such as a fashion show featuring women dressed in military gear, and a scene where the singer throws a grenade-shaped lighter to a George W. Bush lookalike ...

  9. Musical phrasing - Wikipedia

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    Musical phrasing is the method by which a musician shapes a sequence of notes in a passage of music to allow expression, much like when speaking English a phrase may be written identically but may be spoken differently, and is named for the interpretation of small units of time known as phrases (half of a period).