Re: What is it called when?

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:09:15 GMT
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Actually, the definition of prosidy amongst music writers is not necessarily
limited to the placement of lyrical accents with musical beats. Yes, that is
the main crux of prosody, but in broader terms prosody refers to the
marriage of a lyric to the music. There is good prosody and bad prosody.
Singing "stop" and stopping the music momentarily would typically be
considered good prosody.
This may 'technically' be a misuse of the word prosody, that I couldn't say
as I'm not necessarily a scholar on the history of this particular word. But
I know some very well respected writers that define this sort of
literalization of lyric as prosody. I might also point out that the word
"money" would never have had a definition of "friend" listed in the
dictionary 15 years ago, as the use of a word is what ultimately defines it.
Mixerman
"Bob Ross" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
news:email-address-deleted...
> Julian Russell wrote:
>
> > PROSODY!
> >
> > Read it in Mixerman... Ralph got it!
>
> I'm afraid that's incorrect. "Prosody" refers to the stress and
inflections of
> a lyric, and how those match with the stress and emphasis of a musical
phrase.
> It is a description of metric phenomena: how the placement of strong/weak
> musical beats corresponds (or doesn't) to strong/weak syllables.
>
> The word you are looking for may be "Mickey-Mousing". That's a mid-20th
> Century film scoring term to describe a musical score which attempts to
mimic
> the screen action literally.
>
> /Bob Ross
>