/This is in Antique Rhythm: its structure is 'strophic' (above, page 243). From Wordnik.com. [Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature] Reference
Sawt music is strophic, meaning the same rhythm is repeated, but different words are sung over it. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But aren't all spells with more than one verse strophic?. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
Let us pass now to the consideration of the strophic form of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Here a strophic pattern is linked with the older structure of the sequence, based on repetition. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
It's a strophic aria in honor of the birthday of Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, a patron of Bach's. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-05] Reference
The strophic rush of dis-equilibria sketches away from fish to the sine/cosine lengths of her beautiful umber hair. From Wordnik.com. [Not from the self but from the Other] Reference
The chorus also had most of the faster, fiercer music, with strophic repetitions that sometimes went on too long. From Wordnik.com. [Adams's 'Tree' Fails to Bloom] Reference
This is, to my knowledge, the only strophic aria a strophic aria has the same music for multiple verses of a poem or text that J. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-05] Reference
It may be noted that a great part of Marke's address is in strophic form, with four lines of two accents followed by one of three accents. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
The opening lines of the poem may serve to illustrate the strophic form and scansion, and at the same time will give the reader an idea of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
While this format is generally non-strophic, the ternary structure of aria makes two or three stanza poems highly suitable for musical adaptation. From Wordnik.com. ['An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa] Reference
The verse-structure is very intricate and is mostly in strophic form composed of verses of fixed syllabic length, rhymed and richly furnished with alliteration. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
From a musical perspective, these were melodies written in minor keys, in duple meter, at times in the rhythm of a marche (in most cases, a slow marche), in strophic form. From Wordnik.com. [Hebrew Song, 1880-2000.] Reference
In the Mystery Plays there existed doubtless germs of the Meistersaenger school: the occasional strophic passages in the Towneley plays resembled to a great extent the normal Meistergesang. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody] Reference
The opening lines of the poem may serve to illustrate the strophic form and scansion, and at the same time will give the reader an idea of the Middle High German language in which the poem is written. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
They belong to the essence of the Hebrew strophic system. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference
The poem itself is in strophic form and contains some 15,000 lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The poem is in the main strophic and the melody is of similar nature. From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
In the villanelle the influence of the strophic folk song is clearly perceptible. From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
Maerlant is also the author of a number of strophic poems, which date from different periods of his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
We have two "Wanderer" settings, the D. 649 and "Der Wanderer an den Mond," D. 870, the latter a strophic ballad. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Brahms tended to use the title "Lieder" for strophic verses, and "Gesänge" for more elevated or artificial styles. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
His early songs were strophic, patterned on dance types, and influenced by the madrigal styles of Marenzio and others. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
They are written in French strophic forms in the southern dialect, and sometimes have an intermixture of French and Latin lines. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Zenner and many commentators, to complete the envelope-form of the poem, or the introverted parallelism of the strophic structure. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The strictly strophic treatment is used, or, in other words, the repetition of the melody of the first stanza in all the succeeding ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Great German Composers]
The poem is in strophic form, and, though the subject is primitively Germanic, the influence of chivalry and Christianity is throughout apparent. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Attention must also be called to the fact that the original seldom affords a natural pause at the exact point demanded by the use of a strophic form. From Wordnik.com. [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference
Complete editions of the strophic poems were given by E. Verwijs (Gröningen. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
She kept singing, ignoring the little voice that said, It's only a strophic spell" only a strophic spell. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
A way, uncompromisingly formal, architectural, strophic, and conventionally Verdian in their repetition of rhythmical motives and their melodic formularies. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
Even before she hit the second stanza " and her perverse mind insisted on pointing out that spells were strophic " the ground trembled " once, twice, and then even harder. From Wordnik.com. [The Soprano Sorceress]
Still using strophic spells. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
Elaborate strophic, homophonic spell. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
Norse poetry is strophic. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
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