laulukappaleissa

Laulukappaleissa is the inessive plural form of laulukappale, a Finnish compound noun meaning a song or vocal piece. It is used to refer to content, themes, or musical features that occur within multiple songs, such as in scholarly analyses of lyric topics, motifs, or composition techniques across a repertoire.

Formation and grammar: laulukappale = laulu (song) + kappale (piece). The plural nominative is laulukappaleet, and the inessive plural is laulukappaleissa, meaning “in the song pieces” or “in the songs.” As a noun, it can function as a subject or object in a clause and is often accompanied by modifiers like tutkimuksessa (in the study) or teemat (themes).

Usage and contexts: The term is common in musicology, folklore studies, ethnomusicology, and lyric analysis, where researchers discuss what occurs “in the songs” of a corpus, collection, or genre. It can also appear in descriptive writing about a songbook or discography when summarizing recurring content across works.

Examples:

- Laulukappaleissa toistuvat rakkausaiheet. (Love themes recur in the songs.)

- Tutkimus vertailee laulukappaleissa esiintyviä motiiveja eri kansanperinteistä. (The study compares motifs present in the songs across different folk traditions.)

Note: Laulukappaleissa is a plural, location- or content-oriented form that helps specify observations tied to multiple song pieces rather than a single piece.

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