Songwritings

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The craft or art of composing music and lyrics for songs
2. The process of creating original musical pieces, including melody and textual content
3. An artistic discipline focused on producing songs through melody design and lyrical expression

Etymology: "Songwritings" is simply the plural of "songwriting," so it shares that word's history: a compound of "song" and "writing." The first part is ancient, inherited from Old English "song," while "writing" comes from the verb "write," and the pairing describes the act of putting a song together on paper, or more broadly the craft of composing songs and their lyrics. The plural form appears when people refer to several distinct bodies of such work, such as a collection of an artist's compositions or the separate efforts of different writers. The grammatical pattern is the ordinary English one: a noun that names a craft or activity can be pluralized to count individual instances of it, much as "paintings" or "writings" count separate works.

Synonyms: compositions, lyrics, songs, tunings, melodies