Contents
1 Etymology
2 Poems
3 Shifter
4 Copyright and royalties
5 Academic study
6 Search engines
6.1 Riskiest search
6.2 Google
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Etymology
Poems
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However, the verse may pre-date its tune (in the way that "Rule Britannia" was set
to music, and "And did those feet in ancient time" has become the hymn
"Jerusalem"), or the tune may be lost over time but the words survive, matched by a
number of different tunes (this is particularly common with hymns and ballads).
Analogously, verse drama might normally be judged (at its best) as poetry, but not
consisting of poems (see dramatic verse).
In Baroque music, melodies and their lyrics were prose. Rather than paired lines
they consist of rhetorical sentences or paragraphs consisting of an opening
gesture, an amplification (often featuring sequence), and a close (featuring a
cadence); in German Vordersatz-Fortspinnung-Epilog.[9] For example:
Lyrics licenses could be obtained worldwide through one of the two aggregators:
LyricFind and Musixmatch. The first company to provide licensed lyrics was Yahoo!,
quickly followed by MetroLyrics and Lyrics.com. More and more lyric websites are
beginning to provide licensed lyrics, such as SongMeanings and LyricWiki.[13]
Many competing lyrics web sites are still offering unlicensed content, causing
challenges around the legality and accuracy of lyrics.[14] In the latest attempt to
crack down unlicensed lyrics web sites a federal court has ordered LiveUniverse, a
network of websites run by MySpace co-founder Brad Greenspan, to cease operating
four sites offering unlicensed song lyrics.[15]
Academic study