Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of composing songs; skill in versification.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of making songs or verses; metrical composition; versification.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music The practice of crafting
songs , or skill in doing so
Etymologies
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Examples
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As vanguard bands such as Loud Family, Negro Problem and Matthew Sweet have discovered, "songcraft" and "professionalism" have somehow become code words for painful dullness.
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'tell me that I'm wrong, try to sing me your ego song' is a more complex and lyrically advanced than many punk bands which just use aggression and image instead of actually thinking about there songcraft which is why I think of the early hardcore bands such as black flag, germs and dead kennidies to be soo great, they showed more than anger, there intellegent side was put forward aswell.
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He sang beautifully, favored songcraft over the folkie importance on lyrics and created songs that were personal and specific enough to resonate with everyone.
Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter! Michael Giltz 2011
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The synthesis of all he'd learned and loved about entertaining people, with a matured, and almost physics-defying body, and ... a fully-honed sense of pop songcraft.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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He sang beautifully, favored songcraft over the folkie importance on lyrics and created songs that were personal and specific enough to resonate with everyone.
Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter! Michael Giltz 2011
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Ndegéocello's work has often been heavy with mood while elliptical of songcraft, but Weather contains her most direct material since the early 1990s: Dirty World struts along a ridiculously irresistible bassline, while the chorus of Change is as close as she gets to a glorious explosion of FM pop.
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With the pop smarts of Adele, the mellow vibe of Norah Jones, a voice and sound that echoes Karen Carpenter, and songcraft that follows in the footsteps of Burt Bacharach, Rumer's talent is built to last.
Michael Giltz: Music: Spread This Rumer -- 2012's Best New Artist Is Here Michael Giltz 2012
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The synthesis of all he'd learned and loved about entertaining people, with a matured, and almost physics-defying body, and ... a fully-honed sense of pop songcraft.
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With the pop smarts of Adele, the mellow vibe of Norah Jones, a voice and sound that echoes Karen Carpenter, and songcraft that follows in the footsteps of Burt Bacharach, Rumer's talent is built to last.
Michael Giltz: Music: Spread This Rumer -- 2012's Best New Artist Is Here Michael Giltz 2012
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As an artist whose songcraft pulls heavily from 1990's fuzzy lo-fi bedroom pop and scruffy alternative rock, the label made perfect sense.
Americana, Syriana Andy Beta 2011
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