WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
song′ cy′cle, 
  1. Music and Dancea group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
  • 1895–1900

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
song cycle n
  1. any of several groups of songs written by composers during and after the Romantic period, each series employing texts, usually by one poet, relating a story or grouped around a central motif
'song cycle' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
cycle - Hindemith - Mussorgsky - Schoenberg - Winterreise, Die - Schöne Müllerin, Die

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