SONG   

POEM SUNG CONFORMING to a MELODY.
AIRSTRAINDITTYMELODYTUNENUMBERTRACKANTHEMHYMNCHANTYCHANTEYBALLADARIA
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for a song with or without accompanying music of any kind is gē 歌. 2. Shī 詩 refers to a regularly rhymed song with a generally regular number of syllables per line. 3. Fēng 風 refers to a folk song with a given melody. 4. Fù 賦 refers originally to any narrative or descriptive song in early texts but came to refer to the genre of rhyme prose. 5. Yáo 謠 refers to a folksong, mostly in ancient texts to a children's ditty, with a more or less fixed melody, but the focus seems to be on the text and there is no accompanying music involved. 6. O!u 謳 is a dialect word (state of Qi) referring to popular work-songs with a more or less fixed melody. 7. Yín 吟 is occasionally used, from late Han and Three Kingdoms times onwards, as a noun and refers to a popular song.
黄金貴:古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006 ART 3. 歌,有樂器伴奏的歌唱。 謠,無樂器伴奏的清唱。 詠,長聲吟唱。 謳,齊聲歌唱。 倡,領唱。
Modern Chinese Criteria
歌 民歌 民謠 歌謠 風 風謠 俚歌 兒歌 童謠 絕唱 "peak of poetic perfection" rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
Antonym
  • PROSELITERARY GENRE that is not a POEM.
See also
  • SINGSPEAK CONFORMING to a MELODY.
Hypernym
  • POEM DOCUMENT WRITTEN IN SHORT LINES, TYPICALLY of REGULAR RHYTHM AND HAVING RHYME. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • DOCUMENT ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR CONTAINING WRITING. (anc: 5/0, child: 15)
  • ARTEFACT THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    SING

    canere is to make vocal or instrumental music.

    cantare is to make vocal music.

    psallere is to play string music, typically by plucking strings.

    SONG

    canticum is a song that is still in vogue.

    cantilena is a song that used to be very popular but has lost the attractiveness of current vogue.

    carmen is a natural song which is famous mostly for its words, may even be a poem that can only occasionally be sung.

    poema is an ambitious poem which can be sung, but does not have to be.

  • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 24

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    CARMINA

  • 論衡同義詞研究 ( LUNHENG TONGYI 2004) p. 18

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 234

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik ( UEDING 1992ff) p. 5.259

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p.

    謳,謠,歌

    1. WL claims that o1u 謳 and ya2o 謠 refer to local folksongs when used as nouns. But ya2o 謠 is predominantly used for children's ditties, to2ng ya2o 童謠 in pre-Buddhist times, whereas o1u 謳 is never used to refer to any such thing and refers regularly to popular work-songs as used, for example, by builders or men who milk cows, and it would appear that such songs could also be about emperors and kings.

  • Ästhetische Grundbegriffe ( BARCK 2010) p. 5.87

  • Words (34 items)

      shī OC: qhljɯ MC: ɕɨ 69 AttributionsWD

    Shī 詩 refers to a regularly rhymed song with a generally regular number of syllables per line.

      Word relations
    • Object: 學/STUDY The dominant word is xué 學 (ant. jiào 教 "train teach")which refers primarily to studying or training under another person, and secondarily to the learning by heart texts. Very often, the word retains a tinge of immitation.
    • Contrast: 書/DOCUMENT The dominant general word for everything written is shū 書. (However, note that the word also refers specifically to a letter.)

      Syntactic words
    • nsong (note that one 歌s these songs)
    • nprpluralthe canonical Songs, particularly those collected in what is known later as Shijing
    • nprtextthe Book of Songs
      shēng OC: qjeŋ MC: ɕiɛŋ 18 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nsong, pop song; folk song; tune
      gē OC: klaal MC: kɑ 14 AttributionsWD

    The current general word for a song with or without accompanying music of any kind is gē 歌.

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 謠/SONG Yáo 謠 refers to a folksong, mostly in ancient texts to a children's ditty, with a more or less fixed melody, but the focus seems to be on the text and there is no accompanying music involved.

      Syntactic words
    • nobjectsong; popular song (also that of primitive peoples etc) 
      yáo OC: k-lew MC: jiɛu 9 AttributionsWD

    Yáo 謠 refers to a folksong, mostly in ancient texts to a children's ditty, with a more or less fixed melody, but the focus seems to be on the text and there is no accompanying music involved.

      Word relations
    • Epithet: 童/BOY Tóng 童 by itself is an archaic word referring to a boy, but the term enters freely into non-archaic binomes.
    • Assoc: 歌/SONG The current general word for a song with or without accompanying music of any kind is gē 歌.

      Syntactic words
    • nsong; ditty 童謠
    童謠  tóng yáo OC: dooŋ k-lew MC: duŋ jiɛu 5 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPchildren's ditty
      sòng OC: sɢloŋs MC: zi̯oŋ 5 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nBuddhist rhythmic chant; song
    • nprthe sòng "Praise" part of the Book of Songs
      zhāng OC: kjaŋ MC: tɕi̯ɐŋ 4 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nstanza
      yín OC: ŋɡrɯm MC: ŋim 3 AttributionsWD

    Yín 吟 is occasionally used, from late Han and Three Kingdoms times onwards, as a noun and refers to a popular song.

      Syntactic words
    • nabtextsong 白頭吟
    • viactsing songs 吳吟 "sing in the Wú style"
      qǔ MC: -- OC: -- 3 AttributionsWD

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 歌/SING The current general word for singing a song is gē 歌.

      Syntactic words
    • nsong, tune
      fù OC: pas MC: pi̯o 3 AttributionsWD

    Fù 賦 refers originally to any narrative or descriptive song in early texts but came to refer to the genre of rhyme prose.

      Syntactic words
    • nrhyme prose; poetic exposition
      sòng OC: sɢloŋs MC: zi̯oŋ 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nsong; poem
      yīn MC: 'im OC: qrɯm 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nsong as part of musical performanceCH
      fēng OC: plum MC: puŋ 2 AttributionsWD

    Fēng 風 refers to a folk song with a given melody.

      Syntactic words
    • nair, song
    • nprtext"Airs", a part of the Book of SongsLZ
      ōu OC: qoo MC: ʔu 1 AttributionWD

    Ōu 謳 is a dialect word (state of Qi) referring to popular work-songs with a more or less fixed melody.

      Syntactic words
    • nsong
    興詠  xīng yǒng MC: xing hjwaengH OC: qhɯŋ ɢʷaŋs 1 AttributionWD
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    • NPsongVK
    賦頌  fù sòng OC: pas sɢloŋs MC: pi̯o zi̯oŋ 1 AttributionWD
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    • NPnonreferentialsongs of all kinds
      chéng OC: djeŋ MC: dʑiɛŋ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • nstanza, complete part; full round of a tune
    法頌  fǎ sòng OC: pab sɢloŋs MC: pi̯ɐp zi̯oŋ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPabtextBuddhist ode
    小雅  xiǎo yǎ MC: sjewX ngaeX OC: smewʔ ŋɡraaʔ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPprtext"Lesser Odes", a part of the Book of SongsLZ
      yǎ OC: ŋɡraaʔ MC: ŋɣɛ 1 AttributionWD
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    • nprThe Ya-style of poetry in the Book of Songs
    九歌  jiǔ gē OC: kuʔ klaal MC: kɨu kɑ 1 AttributionWD
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    • NPNine Songs in praise of water, fire, metal, woodearth and grain (the 六府)and the three political tasks
      nòng OC: ɡ-rooŋs MC: luŋ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nabactsong
    樂府  yuè fǔ OC: ŋɡraawɡ poʔ MC: ŋɣɔk pi̯o 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nHAN: folk song
    山歌  shān gē OC: sreen klaal MC: ʂɣɛn kɑ 0 AttributionsWD
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    • NPpopular erotic lyric
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nsong as part of musical performanceCH
    調  diào OC: dɯɯws MC: deu 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • ntune, air
      tàn OC: mqhlaans MC: thɑn
      tān OC: mqhlaan MC: thɑn 0 AttributionsWD
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    • nabactplaintive song
      cí OC: zɯ MC: zɨ 0 AttributionsWD
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    • nabtexttext to a tune; text of a song
      luàn OC: ɡ-roons MC: lʷɑn 0 AttributionsWD
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    • nlast stanza in a rhyme prose poem 賦
    歌謠  gē yáo OC: klaal k-lew MC: kɑ jiɛu 0 AttributionsWD
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    • NPpluralfolksongs
      xíng OC: ɢraaŋ MC: ɦɣaŋ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nsong
      lǜ OC: b-rud MC: lʷin 0 AttributionsWD
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    • nregular poetry
      yǐn OC: liŋʔ MC: jin 0 AttributionsWD
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    • nabactlong song
    商歌  shāng gē OC: qhjaŋ klaal MC: ɕi̯ɐŋ kɑ 0 AttributionsWD
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