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.
The two staves below are the piano part. An art song is a vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition. By extension, the term art song is used to refer to the collective genre of such songs (e.g., the art song repertoire).