Hora lungă (Cîntec lung, Rom., literally 'long song'), is a Romanian regional folksong style characterized by the union of a lyrical text and improvisational melody.

According to Călinescu, his lyrical texts were generally "verbose and dry", while his other works lacked "the art of a prose writer."

There are long periods with no music; when it appears, it plays a supporting role to Pushkin's lyrical text, performed here in a vital new translation by Antony Wood.

Choral music is best suited to simple, lyrical texts where nothing is superfluous.

Classical lyrical texts include Os Lusíadas, by Luís de Camões that is an epic book about the history of Portugal and have elements of Greek mythology if from the 16th century.

It's a bleak world view, the opposite of a lyrical text.

Instead, he started working for a Leipzig railroad company, where he wrote his first lyrical texts.

The flashing lyrical text is integrated with the live version of "Technologic" on a large light-emitting diode display used for their shows.

Many are responsorial, and are generally short and simple, with the lyrical text and rhythm tying into the work to be accompanied.

Beautiful watercolours by Peter Malone and a lyrical text inspired the Sunday Times to name it their Children's Book of the Week, and call it a 'masterpiece'.