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>>i agree with you that the words should be part of the >>notation. but i think it's also important to come to an >>understanding with normal notation too, even if it's >>cumbersome. like for instance i was thinking we need to >invent >>a name for those little mini speed raps West Coast and >>Southern rappers frequently use. like when Dr Dre says 'i >>remember back-in-the-day...' on Let Me Ride. the other day i >>realized it's basically what in sheet music you'd call a >>'trill'. and also there's maybe something to be learnt from >>the 'scansion' system developed in poetry (they call beats >>'feet' and the 'time signature' if you will is like 'iambic >>pentameter', ie what type of feet and how many per line. and >>they've got a whole lot of names for poetic effects... i >need >>to make a list of them sometime... you don't get this stuff >on >>the internet) > >...that is, the 'mini-speed raps', but if im not mistaken, >they call that 'double-time'...i just never understoond why >100%. >
do they? i dunno though... it would make sense to call Twista's rap style 'double-time' (he basically puts in two notes where there'd be one. doubles his speed) but to me it doesn't make sense to apply the term to just a brief moment of music, only an entire section
>as far as the poetical effects... > >• simile: a comparison using "as" or "like" e.g., "as a great > elm wallows before the storm." >• metaphor: a comparison not using as or like when one thing >is said to be another. >• hyperbole: exaggeration for dramatic effect e.g., "all the >perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this (murderer's) hand". >• oxymoron: a seeming contradiction in two words put together: >"parting is such sweet sorrow." >• paradox: seeming contradiction that surprises by its >pithiness. >• onomatopoeia: "sound echoing sense"; use of words resembling >the sounds they mean, e.g., biz buzz, humming, pant and puff. >• personification: attribution of human motives or behaviours >to impersonal agencies. >• alliteration: the deliberate repetition of consonant sounds, >e.g., "Build, build your Babels!" >• assonance: deliberate repetition of identical or similar >vowel sounds: "the tread of the feet of the dead". >• transferred epithet: surprising association of adjective and >noun e.g., "with half closed cynic eyes." >• apostrophe: an address to a person absent or dead or to an >abstract entity: e.g., "Death where is thy sting?" >• antithesis: balanced contrast for special effect: e.g., >"Lord of all things, yet prey to all." >• echo: repetition of key word or idea for effect. >• cadence: a sequence of sounds achieving a falling effect. >• rhyming couplet: a pair of lines which end-rhyme expressing >one clear thought. >• epigram, aphorism: pithy or witty saying. >• ellipsis: a circumlocution, a round-about way of expressing >something. >• euphemism: more favourable alternative name for an >unpleasant or ugly thing or event. >• litotes: saying something positive by using two negatives, >e.g., he's no mug. >• diction: poet's distinctive choices in vocabulary. >• rhyme: repetition of same sounds. >• rhythm: internal 'feel' of beat and meter perceived when >poetry is read aloud. >• tone, mood, atmosphere: feelings or meanings conveyed in the >poem; dominant feeling. >• pathetic fallacy: a transfer of human feelings onto >impersonal agencies; taking advantage of coincidence to >suggest causal link between feeling and event, e.g., stormy >Nature mourns the death of a king."As the moon is lonely in >the sky, lonely is the bush and lonely I" (Esson). > >...shit is almost another post among itself.
yeah, but there's even more terms, ones that are really useful. like i think there's one for 'rhythmic onamatapea' if you know what i mean. i've forgotten them though... cause these ones aren't readily found on websites, it's always the ones listed above -------------------- Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs? Why do you choose to listen to R&B?
"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela
*puts emceeing in a box*
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