Potential Titles: Musical Tools and Terms [Category]

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Adagio:
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"

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"

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:
The dissonance of unbridled wind - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"

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"

Playlist:
A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"

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.

Sound.

Staccato:
Repeat their joyous, staccato syllables - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"

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"

A resonance of thrumming spruce - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Timbre:
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"

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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