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  • I had made beautiful word-music based on a complete, and completely ridiculous, misunderstanding.

    Elegy for Angels and Dogs Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • I had made beautiful word-music based on a complete, and completely ridiculous, misunderstanding.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Many factors, including syntax, meter, trope, word-music, and connotation as well as meaning, conspire to make the turn as effective as it is.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Many factors, including syntax, meter, trope, word-music, and connotation as well as meaning, conspire to make the turn as effective as it is.

    Annie Finch reads Claude McKay Lemon Hound 2008

  • Though his dialogue is often compared to that of Mr. Pinter, a Nobel laureate, David Mamet could profit from a close study of the word-music of the Pinter plays.

    Forum Offers New Take on Documentaries 2008

  • Unable to make good on Mamet's word-music, the show posted a provisional closing notice two days after opening night.

    Mamet Stage Direction 2008

  • We do not want poetry to be merely imagistic or merely musical when we have another art that can give us much better pictures and still another that can give us much better music than any word-painting or word-music.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • Most of these very pleasant little strains of word-music and of graceful thought have been frequently brought before the American public, and become familiar favorites.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • First of all, painting has the power, through color and line as such, to express the purely musical emotions; this we demand of painting just as we demand music of verse: without word-music, there is no poetry, no matter how high the theme; so without color and line music, no matter how skillful the representation or how noble the subject, there is no picture.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • If we examine the poem, however, we shall find that, besides the abundant use of rhyme -- interior as well as final -- he avails himself of all those artifices of what may be called word-music, suggesting beauty by a running accompaniment of sound, which are the main secret of modern verse.

    The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

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