Talk:Song cycle

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[edit] The Last Five Years

Changed the Jason Robert Brown example from "The Last Five years", which is in fact a one act musical, to "Songs For A New World" which is in fact a "Song Cycle" Thanks-Broadwaygal 15:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What is a pop song cycle?

I've never before hear song cycle applied to non-classical music; can this be referenced or shall we replace the section with a pointer to an excelent article on the album, which covers similar ground? This sentence: "Besides the few minutes of silence after the final song, Marilyn Manson's second album, Antichrist Superstar, has been considered a song cycle." seems to imply that a cycle is defined by continous linking, which is not true of the classical Liedzyclus. I dont understand the music theatre definition either, being unfamiliar with the examples- are they cycles by analogy, being musicals with self contained numbers? Sparafucil 05:30, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Surely these are more usually known as concept albums? eg Sgt Pepper. Furthermore the medley on Abbey Road was merely a mopping up exercise, rather than attempt to communicate something greater than the sum of the parts, I believe Almost-instinct (talk) 23:29, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, concept album and album musical are looking like the most logical destinations for the non-classical sections. I've place merge proposeals for both. Sparafucil (talk) 23:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] History of classical cycle

I've edited (actually mostly reshuffled) the material in the classical section in an attempt to make it read as a narrative of the cycle's evolution rather than a laundry list, dealing with Germany first. At some point it would be good to tackle head on the definition of a cycle: what makes RS op. 39 a cycle but Brahms op. 57 a 'publication'? Do the 4 Hefte (evidently carefully ordered) of Wolf's Möricke constitute cycles? Sparafucil 00:03, 18 July 2007 (UTC)