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melismata in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Melismata may
refer to: Melisma, the
singing of a
single syllable of text
while moving between several...
- (1609),
Deuteromelia or The
Second Part of
Musicks Melodie (1609) and
Melismata (1611),
which contains one of the best-known
works in his collections...
- μέλισμα, mélisma, lit. 'song'; from μέλος, melos, 'song, melody', plural:
melismata) is the
singing of a
single syllable of text
while moving between several...
-
however the
oldest known musical version is
found in
Thomas Ravenscroft's
Melismata in 1611. The
lyrics involve a frog
courting a
mouse (Missie Mouse). The...
- (Roud 5,
Child 26) is an
English folk ballad,
printed in the
songbook Melismata compiled by
Thomas Ravenscroft and
published in 1611, but the song is...
- from five or six
notes per
syllable to over
sixty in the more
prolix melismata.
Epistle for the
Solemn M**** of
Easter Day
Example of
liturgical recitative...
- can be seen from the
different placement of
certain syllables in the
melismata in his
version and in the
Walsh first edition. A
performance takes about...
- the Bed for
soprano and four
instruments 1982
String Quartet No. 5 1982
Melismata for solo
violin 1982
About Time for
piano 1983
Canonical Form for piano...
-
fugato is the same with only
slight variations by
adding ornaments on
melismata. However, the same four-note
theme is also
found in the
finale of Joseph...
- As the
sections have
texts of very
different lengths, he uses
extended melismata in the
movements with
fewer words.
Several of his
other m****es use the...
