10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANACRUSTIC»
Discover the use of
anacrustic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
anacrustic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry: The Remaking of Alliterative ...
The varying number of anacrustic syllables in type A 1 (or of the initial part before
the first lift of type A3A1), compared with that of type A 1 in the a- verse and the b-
verse 308 Table 4.5. The varying number of syllables before the lift in type A3, ...
2
How to Harmonize Chords to Melody
Phrases that beginona weakbeat are termed anacrustic [17, p3]. Anacrusis is an
unstressed note or notes which precede the first downbeat in a measure.
Anacrusis is synonymous with upbeat or pickup note. It isquite naturalfor aphrase
to ...
Lawrence A. Buckler, 2012
The two ambiguities are connected, for it is easier to hear a melodic motif as
anacrustic, an arpeggiation as cadential. The latter interpretation is supported by
the chordal effect of the double stems, but the upbeat reading is favoured by the ...
John Rink, Jim Samson, 2006
4
The Metrical Organization of Beowulf: Prototype and Isomorphism
By contrast, the unstressed initial syllables in all but one verse are anything but
these anacrustic elements: swd (93b, 666b, 1223b), nil (2247b), hy (2592b).23
Thus, if anacrusis attends the verses at issue, it seems more likely to involve the ...
5
Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for ...
Thus, for example, verses 409a and 2697a given below count as prototypical
instances of anacrustic verses; by contrast, verse 666b and 1549a are aberrant in
that an independent word provides anacrusis: (20) 409a ongunnen on geogolie ...
Raymond Hickey, Stanislav Puppel, 1997
6
The Choral Rehearsal: Inward bound: philosophy and score ...
Multiple syllables that act as extended pickups, or anacrustic groups, have been
bracketed in the graphic above. Charting the text in this way is useful when later
seeking to establish that Victoria, like any competent composer, recognized and ...
7
The Phonology of Swedish
We turn now to the other end of diachrony, that is, neologism and productivity of
anacrustic forms with accent 2-inducing suffixes. 11.7 NEOLOGISM The
complexity of the accent distribution becomes more evident when we recognize
that there ...
8
Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the Xth Conference, Helsinki 2008
Homophonous nomen agentis -are also yields accent 2 in initial-stressed _'lop-
are 'runner', but also in the anacrustic form spect'al-are 'a special'. This is just a
straightforward description of the factual distribution in this set of forms, and no ...
Martti Vainio, Reijo Aulanko, Olli Aaltonen, 2009
9
The Analysis and Cognition of Melodic Complexity: The ...
13c, the dyadic upbeat [4] establishes an anacrustic stylistic norm so that, in the
exact repetition of the opening motive, this anacrustic function takes precedence
over establishing any secondary descending process between measures 1 and 2
...
10
Beyond the Score: Music as Performance
But a more thoroughgoing demonstration ofthe role of articulation within the multi
-parametrical generation of anacrustic charge is provided by Friedman's playing
of the first half of the middle section. In bars 54–56, and again at bars 62–64, ...
