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n. - The property of being suitable for singing.

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  • By using this perspective, Dunsby focuses on the intensification of the text that occurs when words are set to music, which stands in opposition to the kind of...
  • No salon pussyfooting for our Stephen: instead there's soul, fire, songfulness, pathos and passion.
  • "There were brilliance and drama in his playing, songfulness and excitement," he wrote after Kapell died.
  • It takes a few listens to prise its outer layers of idiosyncrasy off to examine the juicy songfulness within.
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