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	Philip Tagg \| Melisma - EPMOW entry (2000)
		Melismatic is usually opposed to syllabic, the latter meaning that each note is sung to a different syllable.
		Melismatic and syllabic are used relatively to indicate the general character of a vocal line in terms of notes per syllable, some lines being more melismatic, others more syllabic.
		Melismatic singing differs more radically than syllabic singing from everyday speech in that it is uncommon to change pitch even once, let alone several times, within the duration of one spoken syllable.
	www.tagg.org /articles/epmow/melisma.html (713 words)

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		The simultaneous action of inflexion and the melismatic phonemes produces a perfect song in form and language endowed with a much deeper emotional content than the poetic text, the added speech sounds proving to be exceptionally rich in melodic and musical tenor.
		The melismatic technique is often handled with ease and command the point that each verse of the couplet 6/8 gives by itself one and the same basic melody.
		The melismatic technique of the quan ho helps to bring about a rational demarcation between two concepts, bordering on verbal poetry and vocal music, which often blend to be conveyed by one and the same expression in other languages than Vietnamese: ca dao and dan ca.
	www.saigonstrings.com /quanho.htm (2184 words)

	Melisma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Music sung in this style is referred to as melismatic, as opposed to syllabic, where each syllable of text is matched to a single note.
		The gradual and the alleluia, in particular, were characteristically melismatic, for example, while the tract is not, and repetitive melodic patterns were deliberately avoided in the style.
		Melisma is today commonly used by singers of popular music, such as Mariah Carey, BeyoncÃ© Knowles, and Christina Aguilera, whose heavily ornamented styles emphasize their vocal technique as a selling point of their music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melismatic (253 words)

	SheDazzle Website - Music Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The piece by Hildegard of Bingen, O successores, is a good example of Melismatic Organum, where the singing voices utilize the soprano scale, while an organ plays sustained alto notes.
		Melismatic Organum was a very important development in music and has led us right up to modern music of today.
		Female artists like Destiny's Child and Christina Aguilera utilize a melismatic structure in their songs and it is truly quite fascinating how their voices are able move up and down the scale with such precision and pitch per syllable.
	shedazzle.com /sourcefiles/music.html (3605 words)

	Ambrosian Chant
		It is likely that the florid, or melismatic, style in which most of our Gregorian propria are written, and which many authorities hold to be of Hebrew origin, found its way into the Church at a much later period.
		This comparison made it possible to eliminate the many melismatic accretions and modifications received, evidently, at the hands of singers who were influenced by the taste of their times and found the original melodic simplicity unsatisfactory.
		As to the rhythm, it must be remembered that the Ambrosian, like all plain-chant melodies, lost their rhythm in the course of the Middle Ages.
	www.heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Ambrosianischer_Lobgesang.html (1085 words)

	The Music of Sean-Nós (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Two main types of ornamentation may be observed: (a) melismatic ornamentation; (b) intervalic ornamentation.
		Melismatic ornamentation may consist of a group of adjacent auxiliary notes decorating or repalcing a main note of the melody as shown in Fig.
		The presence of ornamentation and variation in the sean-nós singer's performance emphasises, if this were necessary, that such devices preclude any form of choral singing in the sean-nós.
	www.webcom.com /~liam/gaelsong/canainn.html (1176 words)

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		But the Three Teachers have given a highly melismatic interpretation of them, in which to each old sign there corresponds a very large number of signs, and consequently of notes, in their new notation.
		So, Karas suggested that the old stichera would originally have had a shorter interpretation and are in fact the ancestors of the stichera sung today, revealing at the same time a continuity in the tradition in a process of a transition from more complex to simpler musical forms.
		The long melismatic way of reading it is probably a somewhat later elaboration and obscures the immediate comparison.
	members.lycos.co.uk /ivanmoody/arvanitis.htm (4480 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Salamone Rossi
		Although the traditional nusah for this passage varies from one occasion to the next, the precentor's line is always extended, literally calling the faithful to prayer with a drawn-out invitation (lest the call be so brief that one might miss it).
		The congregation's response, on the other hand, is normally a perfunctory, syllabic chant, reflecting the obedient acceptance of the charge to praise God (as well as the more limited musical ability of the typical congregant).
		Melismatic phrases (interestingly, a frequent attribute of Eastern music) were part of the normal order of performance during the Renaissance; individual words were exaggerated through elongated articulations of several notes for each syllable of text.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /culture/Music/TOSynagogueMusic/Rossi.htm (1520 words)

	Mongol Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is characterized by certain patterns of ornamentation, such as portamento, trill-like yodels, and passages of great melismatic complexity.
		The song is sung in a full and powerful voice, and breath must be taken extremely quickly so as not to disturb the decorative effects of the music.
		In the western dialect, the vocal range is somewhat narrower and the tempo faster in comparison with the eastern; compared with the northern style, elaborate melodic configurations are few.
	www.mongolempiretours.com /info/culture.htm (658 words)

	Sacred Music in the Middle Ages - Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If you were confused about whether that piece of organum was melismatic, neumatic, or syllabic, maybe it will help you to know that the title is "Haec Dies" and that is the entire text of the piece.
		Actually, I can't think of another piece that is as melismatic as this one.
		Once organum became an accepted practice in sacred music, it was only a short time before composers and singers began to experiment with even more complex ways of putting melodies together.
	www.under.org /apprec/Lesson_03/lesson_03c.htm (363 words)

	recitative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Recitative, a form of composition often used in opera s, oratorio s, cantata s and similar works, is described as a melodic speech set to music, or a descriptive narrative song in which the music follows the words.
		Recitative is easily distinguished from more florid and melismatic aria s, as the rhythm s and melodic contours of recitative often approximate to those of normal speech, often including repeating pitches.
		It is used where dialogue or monologue is sung in between the arias, choruses or other numbers, and is intended to help move the story along quickly.
	en.mcfly.org /recitative (183 words)

	Spectrasonics - Vocal Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Some of the phrases are melismatic in nature, which means they are sung without actual words.
		Melismatic, in the Lakota singing style with a few lyrics from the "Lakota National Anthem"(Flag Song).
		Melismatic, with a few lyric references to "The Song Of The Dancers", expressing the sentiment of many dancers caught between their desire to follow the traditional ways and the pressures of the modern world.
	www.spectrasonics.net /libraries/vocalplanet_translate.html (391 words)

	The Melismatics CD Release Party - Triple Rock Social Club - Minneapolis - 9/19/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Melismatics are putting on some of the finest rock shows in town these days, rivaling 12 Rods in their ability to take what on the surface might appear to be a just a gig and turning it into a downright essential rock and roll event.
		The Melismatics took the stage at the Triple Rock just after midnight bathed in a thick layer of dry ice haze from their fittingly high-tech remote-control smog machine.
		A Melismatics show is a great place for guitarists, bassists and drummers alike to learn a few things.
	www.howwastheshow.com /reviews-2003/melismatics-09-19-03.html (1123 words)

	Melismatics release first CD - The Brown and White
		The Melismatics, Lehigh’s first student-run a capella group, released its first full-length CD Thursday.
		The Melismatics will also be performing in Baker Hall at Zoellner Arts Center on April 17.
		Copies of the Melismatics’ CD can be ordered via email through their website, www.melismatics.net.
	www.bw.lehigh.edu /story.asp?ID=18447 (514 words)

	cdDiscovery - The Hilliard Ensemble - Perotin and the Ars Antiqua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These works were quite possibly performed, respectively in 1198 and 1199, and represent the best guesses we have about fixed points in the chronology of the works of both Pérotin and Léonin Organa, whether the two-part types that make up Léonin's Magnus liber organi or the four-part Viderunt and Sederunt are polyphonic settings of plainsong.
		Both types of music exist within the same composition: the sections based on highly melismatic chants that use the rhythmic modes are called clausulae.
		In three- and four-part organum the elaborate, rhapsodic dupla of Léonin's pieces are not practical because of the co-ordination of the three upper parts; all the polyphony is organised along the lines of the rhythmic modes.
	www.cddiscovery.com /classic/hilliard1.html (1822 words)

	Armenian Music - Armeniapedia.org
		The initial Modal and Monodic nature (That is, excluding the concept of Harmony) of traditional Armenian music condensed the musical creativity in the horizontal line.
		This resulted in a very intense melodic expressivity and a rich rhythmic variety(initially adopting contrapunatic form inaugurated by Father Komitas), posed a new challenges like that of choosing harmonies that would respect the modal nature of the Armenian melody, specially the melismatic aspect of it.
		Melismatic chanting, composed in one of eight modes, is the most common kind of religious music in Armenia.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Armenian_Music (1008 words)

	Humdrum Toolkit Representation Reference - Vocal Text
		A syllabic text-token means that a single syllable is associated with a single moment (such as a single pitch).
		A melismatic text-token means that a single syllable is associated with several successive moments (such as more than one pitch).
		The simplest of these is the melismatic text-token -- which consist merely of a single vertical bar ().
	dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu /Humdrum/representations/text.rep.html (865 words)

	Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music \| Vol. 9 No. 1 \| Margaret Murata: Singing, Acting, and Dancing in Vocal Chamber ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Such decorated singing is often talked about as the opposite of syllabic recitation, but it is important to observe that melismatic passages appear more frequently as excursions in declamatory contexts than in metric, song-like music.
		The opposing motion is imparted by the refrain sections with their (3+3) meter and, additionally, by their melismatic ornaments.
		The opening lines in recitative meters are not set syllabically, but are in an imitative concerto texture, replete with joyous melismas that simultaneously represent both the uncontrolled excesses of the singers’ former lives and delight in their new, reformed ones.
	sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu /jscm/v9/no1/Murata.html (6110 words)

	Embassy of Mongolia in Seoul, Republic of Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Utryn duu is one of the richest and most treasured of the ancient arts of the Mongols.
		The most remarkable features of urtyn duu are the ornamental melismatic passages.
		The more these are used, the more the melodic lines expand and contract in a free rhythm, drawing a delicate curved line of its own.
	www.mongolembassy.com /eng_aboutmongol/culture.asp (3514 words)

	Sleeve Notes - Léonin: Magister Leoninus II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The rhythmic organisation of this procedure gave rise to what are called the rhythmic modes (this style was called discantus).
		Both types of music exist within the same composition; the sections based on highly melismatic chants that use the rhythmic modes are called clausulae when they are given discrete, self-contained forms.
		The resulting structure of alternations of plainsong, organum per se and discantus can be illustrated by a transcription of the text of ‘Repleti sunt omnes’ 8 ‘Loquebantur’.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/67289-N.asp (1208 words)

	Borges y el Espejo
		I was primarily interested in the rhythmic complexity of the melismatic singing in the Ottoman and pre-Ottoman music traditions of Turkey.
		In this type of singing, the melisma seems to be the centre point from which repetitive rhythms are triggered and multiplyed, creating complex and diverse phrases and yet, retaining a great sense of unity.
		The Turkish melismatic phrases are copied, repeated and transformed by mirrors which multiply them into the perfection of symmetry or the abysm of obsessive repetition.
	www.vinao.com /Borges.html (247 words)

	Roman Chant and Liturgy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Responsorial: sung by soloist(s) with a choral response
		Melismatic: frequent use of many notes per syllable (melismas)
		Many graduals have melismatic formulas because they were originally memorized rather than notated.
	www.wwnorton.com /concise/ch2_outline.htm (1014 words)

	organum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is not melismatic, (meaning many notes per syllable), between the two voices.
		But it is melismatic between the text and music of each individual voice.
		Organum was usually a neumatic and melismatic chant section by the choir at the beginning and end of a piece.
	www.ced.appstate.edu /intercollege/3850/studwork/medieval/guide/exa/organum.htm (232 words)

	Saint Meinrad :: Monastery : Liturgical Music
		Columba began to explore the possibility of recreating melismatic chants for English texts developed to fit (more or less) the Latin melody.
		Columba has created wholly new compositions, such as the responsorial psalms for the Third Sunday of Advent and for Christmas Midnight Mass in the melismatic idiom; both are contained on the Advent and Christmas CD.
		All of these compositions are an attempt to recreate the tradition for our own time.
	www.saintmeinrad.edu /monastery_lit_aboutcomposer.aspx (357 words)

	Boosey and Hawkes: The home of contemporary music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This double choir anthem setting a text from the 12th century Worcester Acclamations was written for St Paul’s Cathedral, London, with the music incorporating breathing space to allow for the cathedral’s natural reverberation.
		MacMillan’s love of the vocal cadenza with its melismatic freedom and characteristic ornamentation is here given to a soprano (or treble) solo.
		The final Alleluias are wonderfully rich, linearly interacting between the voices, and giving way to the soprano solo who culminates twice on high Bs (piano!), left floating magically in space.
	www.boosey.com /pages/cr/catalogue/cat_detail.asp?musicid=3461 (195 words)

	Re: Die Walkuere
		It is not the quantity of melismatic notes that matters but the fact that he resorted to melismatic singing at all in the Ring.
		The most famous example is melismatic singing is, of course, Beckmesser.
		BTW, MS Word flags "melismatic" with a wavy underline and proposes "emblematic" instead.
	www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/rec.music.opera/messages/448652.html (242 words)

	Medieval Music
		The chant was considered more or less sacrosanct, not to be altered, but the vox organalis was freer.
		When the lower chant notes were sustained longer and the upper voice became more elaborate, we have "melismatic organum." The chant phrase is called the "tenor" (from the Latin tenere, meaning "to hold"), later the "cantus firmus," and the vox organalis becames the "duplum" (second part).
		Unmeasured melismatic duplum over long tenor notes appears in the 11th and 12th centuries.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/medieval/polyphony.html (693 words)

	Gregorian Association
		The chant is music of great variety, from simple recitation to complex, melismatic melodies requiring the vocal skills of trained cantors.
		Much of the chant repertory continues to be sung by monastic communities, who have no special musical training, and is easily within the capabilities of parish choirs today, especially when limited numbers preclude singing in harmony.
		Long melismatic replacement-melodies were sometimes added to the end of alleluias - known as "Sequences".
	www.beaufort.demon.co.uk /chant.htm (3976 words)

	King, Jonathan (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sensitivity to verbal accent also underlies the composers' syllabic rhythmicizations under certain circumstances; beyond this, composers control texting by prescribing large-scale distribution of syllabic and melismatic passages without necessarily assuming the replication of any one precise alignment in every performance or further copy.
		A distinction between syllabic, isochronic and melismatic texting can therefore be seen to underlie texting at both compositional and scribal levels.
		Changing methods of writing texted music during the course of the century arise from the combination of these well-established principles with changing musical styles; the significance of the later period therefore lies more in new ways of thinking and writing about texting than in new compositional texting practices.
	www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Archive/Disserts/king.html (273 words)

	Cappella Amsterdam - discografie
		The original chants employ two musical styles: the solo sections are elaborately melismatic and contrast with the simpIer, more syllabic, sections sung by tbe schola.
		The rhythmic organization of this procedure gave rise to what are called the rhythmic modes (this style was called discantus).
		The resulting structure of alternations of plainsong, organum per se and discantus can be illustrated by a trangeription of the text of Alleluya.
	www.cappellaamsterdam.nl /discografie_magister.html (1341 words)

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