different between syllabic vs melismatic
syllabic
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sullabikós), from ??????? (sullab?, “syllable”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??læb.?k/
- Rhymes: -æb?k
- Hyphenation: syl?lab?ic
Adjective
syllabic (comparative more syllabic, superlative most syllabic)
- Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
- Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
- (linguistics) Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([??dl?]), the two syllabic sounds are [?] and [l?].
- Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
syllabic (plural syllabics)
- (linguistics) A syllabic sound.
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melismatic
English
Etymology
melismata +? -ic, also contrued as melisma +? -atic
Adjective
melismatic (comparative more melismatic, superlative most melismatic)
- (music) Of, relating to, or being a melisma; the style of singing several notes to one syllable of text.
- 1991, Elizabeth Wichmann, Listening to Theatre: The Aural Dimension of Beijing Opera, University of Hawaii Press, page 92,
- Because slower metrical types are more melismatic and ornamented than primary-meter, their melodic-passages in both xipi and erhuang are more melismatic and complex than those of primary-meter.
- 1998, Barbara Newman, Introduction, Barbara Newman (translator), Hildegard von Bingen, Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum, Cornell University Press, 2nd Edition, page 28,
- In general, the more melismatic a piece, the more solemn, elaborate, and difficult it is, and the more the text is dominated by the music.
- 2006, James Grier, The Musical World of a Medieval Monk: Adémar de Chabannes in Eleventh-century Aquitaine, Cambridge University Press, page 358,
- The melismatic content of this chant lies at the extreme of what is typical for responsories, usually considered among the most melismatic chant types.
- 1991, Elizabeth Wichmann, Listening to Theatre: The Aural Dimension of Beijing Opera, University of Hawaii Press, page 92,
Usage notes
An attribute of some Islamic and Gregorian chants, as well as of a singing style prevalent in popular music from the early 1990s to the late 2000s.
Coordinate terms
- syllabic
- neumatic
Translations
Further reading
- Melisma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Polyphony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- melismatic at OneLook Dictionary Search
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