With a few more ditties like those, I wiped out the -10% to -20% hole.

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Yet Dhani's message is arguably far more powerful -- and meaningful -- than those Western rockers' ditties.

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Franz Liszt turned anything and everything into virtuoso piano music his source material ranged from full symphonies to popular ditties.

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Locals say that they also cut out the vocal cords of a singer who had warbled improvised anti-regime ditties in previous weeks.

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Inevitably, there are teen-friendly pop ditties, but also a more mature seam of songs to suit the cheesemeisters and lounge lizard lovers.

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Stalin made derogatory jokes, ditties and satire jail or shooting offenses.

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One US newspaper described it as embracing "everything from country-tinged ditties to Black Sabbath-style fuzzbuckets with the Paul McCartney songbook tossed in to throw the dogs off the scent".

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I'm betting some of the pianist's larger muscles get a workout in the Scherzos and Sonatas, but Chopin (and, by extension, many of his interpreters) is still seen as a sickly, effete purveyor of dainty piano ditties.

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