单词 | melopoeia |
释义 | melopoeian.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > [noun] composition1597 composure1601 melopoeia1721 composing1782 writing1782 1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xiv. 500 The Melopœia or Art of making Melody or Songs. 1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 129 Melopoeia, is the ranging or disposing sounds so as that their succession makes melody: this is sometimes called by the name of modulation... Melopoeia is divided by Euclid into these four parts, Ductus, Nexus, Petteia and Extentio. 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 698 By this school harmonic was divided into these seven parts; 1. of sounds..7. of melopœïa. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxiii. 534 In music the Greeks distinguished..rhythmus, mutations, and melopœia. 1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle vi. 116 Did not they give to melopœia, choreography, and the sundry forms of didascalies [printed -ics], the precedence of all other matters, civil and military? 1978 S. Michaelides Music Anc. Greece (at cited word) Aristides..defines melopoeia as ‘the faculty which creates the melody’. 2. a. Ancient Greek Theatre. The musical aspects and qualities of theatrical language and performance. rare. ΚΠ 1878 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 51 This part of a drama, called the melopœia, is ranged by Aristotle on a level with the diction. b. Prosody. Ezra Pound's term for: the musical and rhythmic qualities of poetic language, esp. as suited to the tone or mood of the text. Cf. logopœia n., phanopoeia n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poetic diction > [noun] > qualities of poetic expression logopœia1929 melopoeia1929 phanopoeia1929 1929 E. Pound in N.Y. Herald-Tribune 20 Jan. xi. 5/4 Melopoeia, wherein the words [in poetry] are charged, over and above their plain meaning, with some musical property, which directs the bearing or trend of that meaning. 1948 M. McLuhan Let. Aug. (1987) 202 Side by side with his passion for intellectual ratios..is his insistence on melopoeia. 1986 E. P. Walkiewicz John Barth iv. 48 Another approach is continuously to undermine the very concept of signification, diverting attention to what Ezra Pound termed ‘melopoeia’ (language charged with musical properties). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1721 |
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