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.
These include: 1  Single Forms Sectional Forms Binary FormTwo part form, AB, AABB etc. Ternary FormThree part form, ABA, or Ternary Form is original the root of the AABA 32-bar Song Form. 2  Cyclic Forms Song Cycle - A set or group of songs intended to be played in a set sequence.