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somethingdarkerAdagio:
Why do you play that long beautiful adagio - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
The adagio echoes in that whitewashed cave - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Amplify:
Insistence, amplification of - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"
Arpeggio:
Wading love's amber arpeggios - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"
Pirouetted with piquant harpsichord arpeggios - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
An arpeggio climbing the ladder of sky - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
The invisible arpeggio of a hummingbird's wing - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
Arrhythmic:
While one temple pulses an arrhythmic lament - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Backbeat:
The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
Beat.
Cadence.
Cassette:
Suitcases full of spices and cassettes - Hala Alyan "The Female of the Species"
Chord.
Crescendo.
Croon.
Dance.
Descant:
Their amorous descant join - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"
To drink in all thy bold descant - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Diapason.
Discord.
Dissonance.
E-Flat:
The e-flat clarinet chases time - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
Encore:
Still he writes an encore - Cintia Santana "apocalyptic lyric"
The floating notes of festival encores - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Glissando:
That otherworldly moaning glissando - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
Half-note:
Half-note in the flood - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"
Harmonics:
The witchcraft of harmonic sound - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
Plucked entirely in harmonics - Hoa Nguyen "Learning the Dan Bau"
Harmony.
Jingle.
Major:
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Metronome.
Minor.
Minor-key:
Lost and missed in minor-key pentameter - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
Music.
Note.
Octave.
Off-Key:
Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
Percussion:
Whistle a melody against the percussion - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
the rum barrel hollowed out and beaten into percussion - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Mad percussive shivaree & glossolalia - David Wojahn "Catawba Cotton Mill, 1908"
Pizzicato:
A pizzicato off the thin strings of hope - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Playlist:
A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
Polyphone:
Breathes through life's strident polyphone - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Quarter Note:
All burning in the quarter notes - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"
Rhyme.
Rhythm.
Riff:
Another riff about the now of then - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Sing/Sang/Sung.
Skirl:
let him pass as ravens skirl in his wake - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
Sound.
Staccato:
Repeat their joyous, staccato syllables - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
Fire set by the staccato of man's rhythm - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"
Chatters in mechanical staccato - Ernest Hemingway "Mitraigliatrice"
Piping in silvery thin sweet staccato - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Strum.
Tempo:
Over the dream of a collective tempo - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"
Thrum:
Thrumming in spacious forever - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
The thrumming wilderness of self - Donika Kelly "Out West"
Wake to hear the engines of the night thrumming - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"
A resonance of thrumming spruce - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"
Timbre:
The tone and the timbre - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
But the blood has suspended its timbre - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"
The hollow timbre of any submerged god - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew
Treble:
Treble circumstance must confirm the verdict - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
The treble of the rills - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
Nets a flustered treble note - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Tremolo:
Where the wail and tremolo of loon song collect - Keith Taylor "The Guest Cabin"
Trill.
Tune.
Vibrato:
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
A unanimous vibrato of frogs - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Warble.
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Why do you play that long beautiful adagio - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
The adagio echoes in that whitewashed cave - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Amplify:
Insistence, amplification of - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"
Arpeggio:
Wading love's amber arpeggios - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"
Pirouetted with piquant harpsichord arpeggios - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
An arpeggio climbing the ladder of sky - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
The invisible arpeggio of a hummingbird's wing - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
Arrhythmic:
While one temple pulses an arrhythmic lament - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Backbeat:
The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
Beat.
Cadence.
Cassette:
Suitcases full of spices and cassettes - Hala Alyan "The Female of the Species"
Chord.
Crescendo.
Croon.
Dance.
Descant:
Their amorous descant join - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"
To drink in all thy bold descant - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Diapason.
Discord.
Dissonance.
E-Flat:
The e-flat clarinet chases time - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
Encore:
Still he writes an encore - Cintia Santana "apocalyptic lyric"
The floating notes of festival encores - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Glissando:
That otherworldly moaning glissando - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
Half-note:
Half-note in the flood - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"
Harmonics:
The witchcraft of harmonic sound - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
Plucked entirely in harmonics - Hoa Nguyen "Learning the Dan Bau"
Harmony.
Jingle.
Major:
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Metronome.
Minor.
Minor-key:
Lost and missed in minor-key pentameter - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
Music.
Note.
Octave.
Off-Key:
Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
Percussion:
Whistle a melody against the percussion - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
the rum barrel hollowed out and beaten into percussion - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Mad percussive shivaree & glossolalia - David Wojahn "Catawba Cotton Mill, 1908"
Pizzicato:
A pizzicato off the thin strings of hope - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Playlist:
A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
Polyphone:
Breathes through life's strident polyphone - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Quarter Note:
All burning in the quarter notes - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"
Rhyme.
Rhythm.
Riff:
Another riff about the now of then - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Sing/Sang/Sung.
Skirl:
let him pass as ravens skirl in his wake - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
Sound.
Staccato:
Repeat their joyous, staccato syllables - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
Fire set by the staccato of man's rhythm - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"
Chatters in mechanical staccato - Ernest Hemingway "Mitraigliatrice"
Piping in silvery thin sweet staccato - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Strum.
Tempo:
Over the dream of a collective tempo - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"
Thrum:
Thrumming in spacious forever - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
The thrumming wilderness of self - Donika Kelly "Out West"
Wake to hear the engines of the night thrumming - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"
A resonance of thrumming spruce - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"
Timbre:
The tone and the timbre - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
But the blood has suspended its timbre - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"
The hollow timbre of any submerged god - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew
Treble:
Treble circumstance must confirm the verdict - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
The treble of the rills - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
Nets a flustered treble note - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Tremolo:
Where the wail and tremolo of loon song collect - Keith Taylor "The Guest Cabin"
Trill.
Tune.
Vibrato:
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
A unanimous vibrato of frogs - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Warble.
Navigation Links:
Go to Potential Titles: Art/Craft: Tools and Materials [category].
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
