Songish

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Song´ish

Consisting of songs.

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K9), Salish [Proto-] (K9, K18), Sanskrit (H26, S10), Songish (K9), Tifal (K6), Tikopia (M22), Tillamook?

The 'ignis fatuus' of semantic universalia: the case of colour

But in the end his admission that he cares little for the acting, the meanings, the dramatic totality of opera ("I don't care about understanding; I want to be pleased by the Songish part," p.

The Angel's Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera

Dryden later revealed, in the preface to Albion and Albanius, his bias against the parts of opera where music reigns over text: he endorses text-based recitative because it "requires a more masculine Beauty of expression," while aria (Dryden "pretends not to know the word," Winn notes) "for want of a proper English word" is belittled as "The Songish Part," explained by Winn to mean "foreign" and "effeminate" (pp.