Chapter 1 Music & Words Flashcards
Ululate
To wail, to holler , hoot or yodel
Hootenanny
Large informal gathering of singers, musicians , whose goal is to whip it up and make good music. Generally to folk song a and music, tunes not written down
Paean
song of joy and devotion
Dirge
A song of grief and lamentation esp. one that accompanies a funeral
Beguine
A style of music and dance popular in Brazil and Martinique similar to the rumba
Threnody
A song of lamentation for the dead,song or poem of mourning unlike a dirge it is played in honor of someone whose died. Adj threndoic or threnodial
Dulcet
In a sweet and gentle manner, pleasing to the ear
tintinnabulation
The ringing or sounding of bells
Leitmotif
Theme associated with a character every time the character appears, any theme or idea that reappears frequently. Could be a piece of music or just a theme, recognizable musical theme or with literature a theme or notion that reoccurs
Palindrome
Any word, praise or sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards “a man a plan a canal panama”
serif
Line or strokes at the end of letters
Metonymy
When one word or phrase is used as a substitute for another word of group of word, eg “Hollywood” for film industry or “sunshine state” for Florida, “Washington” for the government
Synecdoche
Also an instance of replacing one word or idea for another. Differs from Metonymy in that it’s using a part to represent a whole,using the less comprehensive to describe the more comprehensive.Eg “church” to describe congregation of “hired hands “ to describe workers . Also with a metonymy the word used doesn’t necessarily have any relation to the things it describes
sesquipedalian
A long difficult word, or a person with a fondness of sesquipedalian
Codicil
A supplement or appendix to a will ,a late article to a will
