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Jazz chanting in Argentina The Power of Rhythm: Jazz Chants in the Classroom. Jazz Baby in Africa & Madagascar US Diplomatic Mission to South Africa. Jean C. Engler (December 1978). "Reviewed Work: Jazz Chants: Rhythms of American English for Students of English as a Second Language by Carolyn Graham". TESOL Quarterly. 12 (4).
The Orff Approach of music education uses very rudimentary forms of everyday activity for the purpose of music creation by music students. The Orff Approach is a "child-centered way of learning" music education that treats music as a basic system like language and believes that just as every child can learn language without formal instruction so can every child learn music by a gentle and ...
Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The scheme of the hexameter is usually as follows (writing – for a long syllable, u for a short, and u u for a position that may be a long or two shorts):
Some writers (e.g., O'Connor and Arnold) [7] have described intonation entirely in terms of pitch, while others (e.g., Crystal) [8] propose that "intonation" is a combination of several prosodic variables. English intonation is often said to be based on three aspects: The division of speech into units; The highlighting of particular words and ...
Sprung rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed [ dubious – discuss ] and may be followed by a variable number of unstressed syllables. [ 1 ]
In poetry cadence describes the rhythmic pacing of language to a resolution [2] and was a new idea in 1915 [3] used to describe the subtle rise and fall in the natural flow and pause of ordinary speech [4] where the strong and weak beats of speech fall into a natural order [5] restoring the audible quality to poetry as a spoken art. [6]
J. Lillian Vandevere (Jul 1885 – 10 May 1957) was an American author, composer, [1] and music educator. [2] She is best remembered today for her compositions for rhythm band and toy orchestra, and her work on the California State Series textbooks for music education.
The use of figurative language as a poetic device function to convey the poet's intended meaning in various ways. Allusion–A brief reference to a person, character, historical event, work of art, and Biblical or mythological situation. Analogy–Drawing a comparison or inference between two situations to convey the poet's message more ...