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Definition of Melismata
1. melisma [n] - See also: melisma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melismata
Literary usage of Melismata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rare Poems of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by William James Linton (1883)
"... them we dance this round, around, around,— And he that is a bully boy Come
pledge me on this ground, aground, aground ! FROM melismata THE THREE RAVENS ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"And it is an actual fact that from early times such melismata existed over a
vowel of the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Sanctus, etc.; likewise there were many ..."
3. Catalogue of the Manuscript Music in the British Museum by British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, Thomas Oliphant, Frederic Madden (1842)
"I lay with an old man (melismata.) 4 b. __ Remember, O thou man (id.) ib. ...
.12 As I went by the way (melismata.) 126. I have house and land in Kent (id. ..."
4. Bibliotheca Madrigaliana: A Bibliographical Account of the Musical and by Edward Francis Rimbault (1847)
"melismata, 1611 . . . 12 35 My minde to me a kingdome is. Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets and
... Campion's Ayres, 1610 . . 11 33 New flowres. melismata, 1611 . ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In 1611 he published a collection of 23 part-songs, under the title 'melismata,'
which are of Remarkable beauty. Musical tradition has ascribed to him the ..."
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