A special modification of the neum form is that which is called liquescent or semivocal. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
He slumped in a motionless, nearly liquescent heap. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
Meccan girl with citrine skin and liquescent eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
The second figure on non is a liquescent torculus. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
So might an Arctic explorer thrill at his first ken of green fields and liquescent waters. From Wordnik.com. [Whirligigs] Reference
From the whole, soft, liquescent fluid scene, the impression which I derived was melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
Thus the liquescent podatus is called epiphonus, the liquescent clivis, cephalicus, the liquescent climacus, ancus. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The liquescent form (cephalicus), somewhat shortened, is seen on the third syllable of iohannem (first line on right page). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Instead, however, of listening to the sermons, Burton got flirting with a Meccan girl with citrine skin and liquescent eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton]
It begins below with the gravis to which the acutus is attached in the usual manner, but the last, liquescent, gravis is represented by. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
This is not easy to translate, but it would seem that the last tone of the liquescent neum should "lose one half, not of its length, but of its strength". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Possibly the nature of the liquid consonants, l, m, n, r, which evidently have given the name to the liquescent neums, would give a more satisfactory explanation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Rationally is a northeastwardly unproved liquescent in grocery, and when avirulent with the imprisoned longanimity, backrest to ideogram a overnight dyspeptic gynura. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Fitzpiers did not stay more than an hour, but that time had apparently advanced his sentiments towards Grace, once and for all, from a vaguely liquescent to an organic shape. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
Of liquescent signs we have a scandicus liquescens on the first syllable of Alleluia, a distropha liquescens of the third, an epiphonus on the last syllable of misericordiam. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
On palma the MS. gives a liquescent note, on the first syllable of adnunciandum it has a podatus (a c, or d f, as this notation should be read a fifth lower) instead of a single note; in the last, a podatus instead of an epiphonus. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
And ever the river was growing rougher and ruder; ever its backbone was beginning to puiver and flounder like a whale underfoot, with its liquescent body of cold, grey, murky water bursting with increasing frequency from its shell of ice, and lapping hungrily at our feet. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
The sun was rising; long liquescent lines of light of purest amber-color were streaming through the snowy woods; the shadows of the fence rails alternated with bars of dazzling glister; elusive prismatic gleams of rose and lilac and blue shimmered on every slope -- thus the winter flowered. From Wordnik.com. ['way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895] Reference
We only notice that on gaudent and angeli the MS. adds a liquescent note to the podatus and porrectus subbipunctis, and on celebrantes has twice a porrectus for the strophic clivis, which suggests that the apostropha (oriscus) was sung slightly higher than the last note of the clivis, as mentioned above. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Even if you can't understand a word, Gessesse's music possesses that abstruse ability to transcend linguistic and cultural boundaries-buoyed by the combination of a beatific brass band and Gessesse's gilded voice, a supernal, acrobatic wail capable of shifting directions mid-note, with the liquescent grace of Kobe Bryant twisting to elude a defender. From Wordnik.com. [Passion of the Weiss] Reference
Of liquescent neums we find the epiphonus on the second syllable of diem and the third of celebrantes, the cephalicus on the first of omnes, a pes subbipunctis liquescens (the first punctum connected with the pes in the manner of a torculus and the second, liquescent, bent back to the left) on the second syllable of collaudant and a porrectus compunctis liquescens on the last syllable of filium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
305 Charm'd by your touch, the flint liquescent pours. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
What they finally found inside Edward’s oddly-assorted clothes was mostly liquescent horror. From Wordnik.com. [the king of pop and lord of the abyss « raincoaster] Reference
At the end of our path a liquescent. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
At the end of the path a liquescent. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
At the end of the path a liquescent '. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
Some of the liquescent neums have special names. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The liquescent form. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
At the end of the path a liquescent’. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
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