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A jazz term that instructs a lead player or rhythm section member to play an improvised solo cadenza for one or two measures (sometimes abbreviated as "break"), without any accompaniment. The solo part is often played in a rhythmically free manner, until the player performs a pickup or lead-in line, at which time the band recommences playing in ...
Stichic: a poem composed of lines of the same approximate meter and length, not broken into stanzas. Syllabic: a poem whose meter is determined by the total number of syllables per line, rather than the number of stresses. Tanka: a Japanese form of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables—31 in all.
536 – Agathias born about this year (died 582/594); Ancient Greek poet and historian; 539 – Chilperic I born (died September 584) Frankish king of Neustria and a Latin poet; 543 – Saint Columbanus (died 615), Hiberno-Latin poet and writer; 544 – Arator declaims his poem De Actibus Apostolorum in the Church of San Pietro-in-Vinculi
The table of years in poetry is a compact directory of all "years in poetry" pages—decades and centuries prior to 1500. Contents: 2000s - 1900s - 1800s - 1700s - 1600s - 1500s - 1400s - 1300s - Other
The table of years in music is a tabular display of all years in music, to provide an overview and quick navigation to any year. Contents: 1300s – 1400s – 1500s – 1600s – 1700s – 1800s – 1900s – 2000s – Other
The Proletarian poetry is a genre of political poetry developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that endeavored to portray class-conscious perspectives of the working-class. [64] Connected through their mutual political message that may be either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist , the poems are often aesthetically disparate.
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' song ') [1] [2] [3] is a term for setting poetry to classical music. [4] The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German and Dutch, but among English and French speakers, lied is often used interchangeably with "art song" to encompass works that the tradition has inspired in other languages as well. The poems that have been made ...