Strophic

/This is in Antique Rhythm: its structure is 'strophic' (above, page 243). ❋ Richard Green Moulton (1886)

Sawt music is strophic, meaning the same rhythm is repeated, but different words are sung over it.

The operetta's one big hit is "Wo sie war die Müllerin," a strophic ditty that completely stops the action in the middle of the finale of Act II (much as the "prince and princess" song would do a decade later in Franz Lehár's "The Merry Widow"). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The musical content is that of a children's song; the strophic structure actually diminishes any sense of conflict; the insouciant ritornello — — resets each verse like rounds of a game. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

The strophic rush of dis-equilibria sketches away from fish to the sine/cosine lengths of her beautiful umber hair ❋ Unknown (2009)

They also include many poets: among them Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) in his Neue Gedichte of 1907, the Yiddish poets Itzik Manger, who devoted four poems to her, and Jacob Glatstein (1896 – 1971) in a long strophic poem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This strophic art is the liturgical counterpar of early European courtly song, an art in which verse, rhyme and musical structures are organised in an astonishing variety of patterns, and in which every text has its own specific melody. ❋ Lu (2009)

Here a strophic pattern is linked with the older structure of the sequence, based on repetition. ❋ Lu (2009)

They vary from simple strophic tunes and straightforward rondo forms to dramatic cantatas of the kind known in England from the works of Rossi and Carissimi, which were then circulating in copies. ❋ Lu (2009)

The chorus also had most of the faster, fiercer ­music, with strophic repetitions that sometimes went on too long. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From a musical perspective, these were melodies written in minor keys, in duple meter, at times in the rhythm of a marche (in most cases, a slow marche), in strophic form. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While this format is generally non-strophic, the ternary structure of aria makes two or three stanza poems highly suitable for musical adaptation. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The opening lines of the poem may serve to illustrate the strophic form and scansion, and at the same time will give the reader an idea of the Middle High German language in which the poem is written: ❋ Unknown (2007)

Let us pass now to the consideration of the strophic form of the ❋ Unknown (2007)

"It is no major composition but an occasional work in the form of an exquisite and highly refined strophic aria, Bach's only contribution to a musical genre popular in late 17th-century Germany,"said Christoph Wolff, the foundation's director and a professor at Harvard University. ❋ Argent (2006)

It's a strophic aria in honor of the birthday of Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, a patron of Bach's. ❋ BRN (2005)

This is, to my knowledge, the only strophic aria a strophic aria has the same music for multiple verses of a poem or text that J. ❋ BRN (2005)