songtext

See also: Songtext

English

Alternative forms

• song-text

Etymology

From song +‎ text. Compare Dutch songtekst (“lyrics”).

Noun

songtext (plural songtexts)

1. The written words to a song; lyrics.
   • 1986, Ultimate reality and meaning, volumes 9-10, page 47:

     The use of songtext, therefore, was important as a literary medium and as a means of recording oral traditions and events of historical ... Songtext may also be considered as an important factor in determining emotional effect of musical sound.

   • 1992, Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen, The Bedhaya Court Dances of Central Java:

     Next to this is a separate column for the songtext — which does not always give the words of the text, at the most a few catchwords, headed by the word: [...]

   • 2012, Michael Taussig, The Nervous System:

     “No doubt,” writes LèviStrauss (in his analysis which ignores the performative, social, colonial and microhistorical contexts of the song-text), “the purpose of such an alteration in the details of the myth is to elicit the corresponding organic reaction, [...]”

   • 2013, The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music - Volume 2 - Page 859:

     The songtexts are in rhymed verses, and each line is repeated once.