figuration

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F0115100 (fĭg′yə-rā′shən)n.1. The act of forming something into a particular shape.2. A shape, form, or outline.3. The act of representing with figures.4. A figurative representation.5. Music a. Ornamentation of a passage by embellishing and often repeating figures.b. The pattern made by such embellishment or repetition.

figuration

(ˌfɪɡəˈreɪʃən) n1. (Classical Music) music a. the employment of characteristic patterns of notes, esp in variations on a themeb. decoration or florid ornamentation in general2. (Rhetoric) the act or an instance of representing figuratively, as by means of allegory or emblem3. (Art Terms) a figurative or emblematic representation4. (Art Terms) the act of decorating with a design

fig•u•ra•tion

(ˌfɪg yəˈreɪ ʃən)

n. 1. the act of shaping into a particular figure. 2. the resulting figure or shape: emblematic figurations of the sun and the moon. 3. the act of representing figuratively. 4. a figurative representation. 5. the act of marking or adorning with a design. 6. a. musical ornamentation used to embellish a melodic line. b. the figuring of a bass part. [1400–50; late Middle English < Latin]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	figuration - representing figuratively as by emblem or allegoryrepresentation - an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalentsymbolising, symbolizing - the act of representing something with a symbol
	2.	figuration - decorating with a designdecoration - the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)

Translations

figurazione

figuration

1. Musica. the employment of characteristic patterns of notes, esp in variations on a theme b. decoration or florid ornamentation in general 2. Art a figurative or emblematic representation

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the ‘nexus of interdependencies between people’, the ‘chains of functions’ and ‘axes of tensions’ -both of cooperation and conflict – which can be identified in any social context (ELIAS, 1978). The concept is the central analytical concept of Norbert Elias 's FIGURATIONAL SOCIOLOGY. Elias rejects any model of Man as homo clausus – the closed or discrete individual. Equally, however, he also rejects purely structural forms of explanation. It is the model of the ‘dance’ or the ‘game’ which Elias suggests best illustrates the focus he seeks to achieve in social analysis. The ‘image of the mobile figurations of interdependent people on a dance floor (or playing a sport-game) which makes it easier to imagine states, cities, families and also entire social systems as figurations’ (ELIAS, 1939). See also CIVILIZING PROCESS, COURT SOCIETY.

Figuration

in music, the enrichment of a musical texture through the addition of melodic or rhythmic elements. In harmonic figuration, a voice, usually the bass, moves along the notes of a chord, producing a broken chord or harmonic ornament. The Alberti bass is a type of harmonic figuration. Rhythmic figuration involves the repetition of a single note, several notes of a chord, or an entire chord. In melodic figuration, turns or decorative figures, uniform in rhythm and frequently in melodic contour with the primary melodic line, are inserted between melodic phrases; these figures are close to melodic ornaments.

Since the 16th century melodic figuration has been used primarily when a melody is repeated at another pitch or on another instrument, in variations on the basso ostinato, and, in classical and romantic music, in the variational or reprise sections of a work. Melodic figuration also includes various types of discordant notes—suspended, passing, auxiliary, and changing notes.

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