The reason hard boiled eggs dont last as long as raw eggs is that in cooking the eggs, a natural protective chemical layer (produced by the mother hen) is washed off the porous eggshell, allowing germs to enter. Source(s): http://cookery.newarchaeology.com/how_lo... sugarice82 Â· 9 years ago.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Song cycle. A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist.
Ballad: A short narrative poem, written to be sung. They tell of love, death, the supernatural, or a combination of these. A characteristic of the ballad is incremental repetition or variation. Incremental variation repeats one or more lines with small but significant variations that advance the action.