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polytonal portamento The use of several tonal schemes simultaneously. A continuous gliding movement from one tone to another. sostenuto sotto staccato stringendo Sustained. Under; beneath. Detached; separated. Hurried; accelerated. presto quaver Very fast; lively; quick. An eighth note. strophe Music repeated for each verse of an aria. rallentando ritardando ritenuto ritornello romanza roulade rubato semitone semplice sempre senza serial music sforzando Gradually slower. Gradually slower. Held back; slower. A short recurrent instrumental passage between elements of a vocal composition. A solo song that is usually sentimental; it is usually shorter and less complex than an aria and rarely deals with terror, rage and anger. A florid vocal embellishment sung to one syllable. A way of playing or singing with regulated rhythmic freedom. One half of a whole tone, the smallest distance between two notes in Western music. In the key of C, the notes are E and F, and B and C. Simply. Always. Without. Music based on a series of tones in a chosen pattern without regard for traditional tonality. With accent. syncopation tacet tempo tonality triste twelve-tone veloce vibrato vivace Shifting the beat forward or back from its usual place in the bar; it is a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat. Silent. Rate of speed. The organization of all the tones and harmonies of a piece of music in relation to a tonic (the first tone of its scale). Sad. The 12 chromatic tones of the octave placed in a chosen fixed order and constituting with some permitted permutations and derivations the melodic and harmonic material of a serial musical piece. Each note of the chromatic scale is used as part of the melody before any other note gets repeated. Rapid. A “vibration”; a slightly tremulous effect imparted to vocal or instrumental tone for added warmth and expressiveness by slight and rapid variations in pitch. Brisk; lively. sordino Muted. glossary of musical terms 111
Bibliography, Discography, Videography bibliography – the grapes of wrath Harold Bloom, editor Robert Con Davis Robert DeMott, editor Frank Galati Tetsumaro Hayashi, editor Barbara A. Heavilin, editor Claudia Durst Johnson Modern Critical Views: John Steinbeck. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Twentieth Century Interpretations: The Grapes of Wrath. Englewood Cliffs (N.J.): Prentice-Hall, Inc., © 1982. Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., © 1989. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Dramatist Play Service Inc., © 1991. Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath: Essays in Criticism. Muncie (Indiana): The Steinbeck Research Institute, 1990. The Critical Response to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Westport (CT): Greenwood Press, 2000. Understanding The Grapes of Wrath. Westport (CT): Greenwood Press, 1999. Joseph R. McElrath, et. al. John Steinbeck: The Contemporary Reviews. editors Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, © 1996. Donald R. Noble Louis Ownes John Steinbeck John Steinbeck John H. Timmerman Whitebrook, Peter David Wyatt, editor The Steinbeck Question: New Essays in Criticism. Troy (New York): The Whitston Publishing Company, 1993. The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land. Boston: Twayne Publishers, © 1989. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., © 1939. The Harvest Gypsies. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1988. John Steinbeck’s Fiction. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, © 1986. Staging Steinbeck: Dramatizing The Grapes of Wrath. London: Cassell, © 1988. New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. bibliography – opera in general Dennis Arundell Mervyn Cooke The Critics at the Opera. New York: Da Capo Press, 1980. The Cambridge Guide to Twentieth-Century Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. blibliography, discography, videography 112
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