strophic

“/This is in Antique Rhythm: its structure is 'strophic' (above, page 243).”

Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature

“The operetta's one big hit is "Wo sie war die Müllerin," a strophic ditty that completely stops the action in the middle of the finale of Act II (much as the "prince and princess" song would do a decade later in Franz Lehár's "The Merry Widow").”

The Washington Post: CD review: CPO's 'Der Obersteiger'

“The musical content is that of a children's song; the strophic structure actually diminishes any sense of conflict; the insouciant ritornello — — resets each verse like rounds of a game.”

Archive 2008-09-01

“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.”

Hebrew Song, 1880-2000.

“The strophic rush of dis-equilibria sketches away from fish to the sine/cosine lengths of her beautiful umber hair”

Fictionaut: Not from the self but from the Other

“They also include many poets: among them Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) in his Neue Gedichte of 1907, the Yiddish poets Itzik Manger, who devoted four poems to her, and Jacob Glatstein (1896 – 1971) in a long strophic poem.”

Biblical Women in World and Hebrew Literature.

“This strophic art is the liturgical counterpar of early European courtly song, an art in which verse, rhyme and musical structures are organised in an astonishing variety of patterns, and in which every text has its own specific melody.”

Archive 2009-04-01

“Here a strophic pattern is linked with the older structure of the sequence, based on repetition.”

Archive 2009-04-01

“They vary from simple strophic tunes and straightforward rondo forms to dramatic cantatas of the kind known in England from the works of Rossi and Carissimi, which were then circulating in copies.”

Archive 2009-05-01