Adjectival form of the noun 'genre', mostly used in the field of musicology. This word exists and is in legitimate usage in Russian (жанÑовÑй), Ukrainian (жанÑовий), and Polish (zanrowy).
The emotional and genric range of his art songs is unusually wideâpassionate dramatic monologues and pensive elegies, profound philosophies and colourful folk scenes, lyrical serenades and ecstatic love songs, melancholy waltzes and heroic meditations.
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