Their translations were praised for their wit and singability.

This new style focused on making the music "simpler, thoroughly democratic in its singability, largely Hebrew, and playable on guitar."

The hallmarks of the Martins' translations, and the qualities that made them so durable, were clarity and singability.

Because of its remarkable karaoke-style singability, the song has been performed live by Dragon Ash on several occasions and remains a fan favorite.

Kannada literature had moved closer to the spoken and sung folk traditions, with singability being its hallmark, and devotion to God its goal.

Compositions are judged on strict criteria, including technical and artistic merit, score legibility, singability, uniqueness and perceived audience appeal.

He said that throughout the 23 years he spent on FM radio, he always looked for the "singability" in new tracks to fairly predict its chances of being a hit.

Of the same work, Thomas Busse wrote in San Francisco Classical Voice, "The music's greatest strength was its singability, attributable to the composer's being a vocalist himself."

And if something of the fit between the music and the words was surrendered in the translation from the French original, Joseph Machlis's translation had the twin virtues of clarity and singability.

Cleveland Orchestra Jean-Yves Thibaudet Pianist Carnegie Hall Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, with its sweeping melodrama and eminent singability, poses almost moral questions for the virtuoso.

Rorem's score accordingly probes gently dissonant rather than harsh, strident harmonies; likewise, it remains comfortably tonal with airy, kaleidoscopic textures and a singability as fluid as Leonard Bernstein's melodic style.

The Neue Ruhr Zeitung Duisburg noted that "Maurice Stern gives OTELLO greatness and stature, in combination with excitement and expressive singability of his dark-toned tenor voice".

For the most part French composers of the time shunned the sombre colors of the Franco-Flemish style and strove for clarity of line and structure, and, in secular music such as the chanson, lightness, singability, and popularity.