Wolf's songs excel at delineating character and setting, but he wasn't able to harness this talent in his one opera, "Der Corregidor," which contains some fine music but little dramatic motion; it comes across largely as a chain of songs strung together.

Some critics found that the album was made up of several excellent songs, strung together by a fleet of bad ones.

Produced by Nancy and Ronnie Horowitz and conceived and written by Mark Donnelly http://www.phyllis.demon.co.uk/theatricalia/09mus/mus80.htmand choreographed and directed by Steve Merritt, Dream Street was a "compilation" musical, made up of well-known songs strung together with a simple narrative.

"It's a series of songs and arias strung together with choreography and an orchestral score," said the androgynous performer, who wrote, choreographed and directed the piece and sings in an eerie, heart-tugging falsetto.

Gwar's latest release, Bloody Pit of Horror, features a 12-minute epic of four songs strung together, which was largely the brainchild of Smoot.

Julie Wilson has never seemed more in her element than at Rainbow and Stars, where she and her accompanist, William Roy, are performing a program that ranges from Cy Coleman to Peter Allen to Harold Arlen, with many of the songs strung together into thematic blocks.

Shiloh backed Mr. Wonder in his own set, a medley of songs strung together like a disc jockey's megamix.

In television the medley is usually those parts of popular songs most identifiable to the public, strung together in a musical collage with some kind of theme or storyline connecting them.

The first eleven tracks - often consisting of two songs strung together - were recorded live in December, 1992 at CBGB.

Andrew Vanwyngarden has said Siberian Breaks is about eight different songs strung together - and listening to it again, eight might be underestimating things.