enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Vietnamese poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_poetry

    Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include Lục bát, Song thất lục bát, and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven syllables each line for eight lines," "seven syllables each line for four lines" (a type of quatrain), and "five ...

  3. Song cycle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_cycle

    It may derive from the text (a single poet; a story line; a central theme or topic such as love or nature; a unifying mood; poetic form or genre, as in a sonnet or ballad cycle) or from musical procedures (tonal schemes; recurring motifs, passages or entire songs; formal structures). These unifying features may appear singly or in combination. [1]

  4. Musical form - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_form

    Musical form unfolds over time through the expansion and development of these ideas. In tonal harmony, form is articulated primarily through cadences, phrases, and periods. [2] "Form refers to the larger shape of the composition. Form in music is the result of the interaction of the four structural elements," of sound, harmony, melody, and ...

  5. Classical Chinese poetry forms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese_poetry_forms

    Classical Chinese poetry forms are poetry forms or modes which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in Literary Chinese or Classical Chinese.Classical Chinese poetry has various characteristic forms, some attested to as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry, dating from a traditionally, and roughly, estimated time of around 10th–7th century BCE.

  6. Greek lyric - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_lyric

    Whether the accompaniment was a string or wind instrument, the term for such accompanied lyric was melic poetry (from the Greek word for "song" melos). Lyric could also be sung without any instrumental accompaniment. This latter form is called meter and it is recited rather than sung, strictly speaking. [5]

  7. Folk poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_poetry

    The term can refer to poems of an oral tradition that may date back many years; [2] that is, it is information that has been transmitted over time (between generations) only in spoken (and non-written) form. [3] Thus as an oral tradition folk poetry requires a performer to promulgate it over generations. [4]

  8. Oral poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_poetry

    Oral poetry differs from oral literature in general because oral literature encompasses linguistic registers which are not considered poetry. In most oral literature, poetry is defined by the fact that it conforms to metrical rules ; examples of non-poetic oral literature in Western culture include some jokes , speeches and storytelling .

  9. National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indonesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intangible...

    Pantun: the contents of the poem, the rhymes of the poem, the grammar spoken, when it is read, the rules of reading it, the location, who is reciting, the purpose of being recited in the form of gurindam, poetry, song, poetry, poetry, pojian (religious praise), syi'ir (syllabic ( religious songs), hymns.