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Friday, October 25, 2024

enjamb

 I am looking at a recently published book on Spanish versification. It seems solid, but very little discussion of enjambment or metrical structures based on verse paragraphs (not just strophes). In other words, the line is the relevant unit, not the relation between lines.  

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I composed a tune that has 64 bars, say.  The basic structure is 32, repeated twice. Each of those units is composed of question and answer units of 8 bars, which in turn are based on four measure phrases that also answer each other, etc...  It is a piece that I improvised and recorded.  I am not claiming that is is particularly good, but I am thinking that what this means is that this structure is intuitive to me.  That I could structure my improvisation in that form by knowing what it feels like, as a gestalt.  

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