How To Use Monody In A Sentence
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There have been many histories of Jerusalem, from Jeremiah's sixth century B.C. monody to "For Jerusalem," a premature happy ending written in the 1970s by a successful mayor, Teddy Kollek.
City of Peace—and War
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Bach had an unparalleled talent for assimilating disparate influences into an architecturally harmonious whole at a time when an unprecedented number of disparate influences — Renaissance polyphony, Lutheran chorale, Italian monody, French dance music, you name it — was ripe for assimilation.
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change
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Its regretful, transfiguring ending, built out of a wonderfully orchestral monody, is remarkable, and the clarity of the textures is quite startling.
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It is sometimes called monody, although the term "monody" can also refer to a particular type of solo song with instrumental accompaniment that was very popular in the 1600's.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Here the chant alternates between monody and three-part polyphony, following the method of twelfth-century Parisian discantus as it has come down to us in the only extant work of Master Albert of Paris precentor of the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne, preserved in the Codex Calixtinus: the Congaudeant catholici.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Percussion and even the early harp played no part in the great development from monody to polyphony.
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The cartoon is very elegiac, it's a monody of the holy creature, a rare scene only in the length and breadth of the land of the highest land of the earth.
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Bach is essentially a "monody," a composition of one idea, which preponderates so decidedly as to enforce its character and individuality upon the work; nay, it is the work.
The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
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Among the different vocal and instrumental styles that characterise the medieval period, monody plays an essential part.
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In liturgical terms, an analysis of the monody in the Codex Calixtinus reveals several surprising features.
Another early music site
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In the words of the composer's wife, Nora Pärt, ‘tiny contrasting musical segments - orientally tinted monody and chordal density - converge yet produce a gently flowing stream of music.’
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What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
Oxford Must Reject Islamic Call To Prayer – Update « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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For me, one of its most interesting quotations was when he was introducing monody and the transition into the baroque.
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I have some music reading dates set up w/JmB and JO - medieval conductus, 17th century monody (Luzzaschi, anyone?), and hot, fresh compositions by JmB.
Music on the horizons
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The cartoon is very elegiac, it's a monody of the holy creature, a rare scene only in the length and breadth of the land of the highest land of the earth.
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I have some music reading dates set up w/JmB and JO - medieval conductus, 17th century monody (Luzzaschi, anyone?), and hot, fresh compositions by JmB.
Archive 2007-02-01
