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sprechgesang

sprechgesang noun: a form of recitative between speaking and singing.

Noun

sprechgesang (uncountable)

  1. A form of recitative between speaking and singing.
    • Comedy-music is often defined by the idea that the artist is actually a comic character, yet serious bands such as Dry Cleaning and the Mercury-nominated Black Country, New Road use their deadpan sprechgesang to create a more subtle sincerity gap.2021 September 29, Rachel Aroesti, “Collapsed laughing: how the gap between music and comedy has disappeared”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin of sprechgesang

Unadapted borrowing from German Sprechgesang.

Questions about sprechgesang

What does sprechgesang mean?
Sprechgesang means a form of recitative between speaking and singing.
What part of speech is sprechgesang?
Sprechgesang is a noun.

Words near sprechgesang in the dictionary

  1. spreathed
  2. spreathes
  3. spreathing
  4. spreaths
  5. Sprechbund
  6. sprechgesang
  7. Sprechstimme
  8. Spreckels
  9. spreckle
  10. spreckled
  11. spreckles

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