Song vs Medley - What's the difference?
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A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
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, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
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, title= (label) Any musical composition.
Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:This subject for heroic song .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song .
The act or art of singing.
A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
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*(Benjamin Silliman) (1779–1864)
*:The soldier's pay is a song .
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song , and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
An object of derision; a laughing stock.
*(Bible), (w) xxx. 9
*:And now am I their song , yea, I am their byword.
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*:Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym
:(Holland)
A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
:a fruit medley
*Addison
*:this medley of philosophy and war
*W. Walsh
*:Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.
(music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
:They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
(swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
A cloth of mixed colours.
:(Fuller)
As nouns the difference between song and medley
is that song is a musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing while medley is combat, fighting; a battle.As a proper noun Song
is a former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.As a verb medley is
to combine, to form a medley.song
English
(wikipedia song)Noun
(en noun)266
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,