Voorbeelden van declamation

• Dramatic speech, in monologues and declamations, was sometimes rhetorical to a degree which may seem artificial to modern audiences.

• The interaction of neutral two-bar declamation and faster patter settings varies, but certain general principles apply.

• All agree that her greatest strength was as an actress, that the intensity of her gestures and her tragic declamation were unequalled.

• Classes could march through the texts in simultaneous declamation, the basic technique of verbatim memorisation.

• In a personal take on musical expressionism, the vocalizing ranges from lyrical declamation to speaking and shouting.

• There is no suggestion that any formal process had preceded the scholar's declamation.

• It was illustrated, for instance, in the inclusion of subjects such as elocution, extempore debates and 'original declamation'.

• The distinction between rhythmic foreground and middleground is useful in diagnoses of musical declamation within the context of modal rhythm.

• As can be deduced from this voice, the composition is characterised by a careful text underlay and a syllabic declamation.

• There are arguments in favour of both readings, but either version results in the same commentary on the work's declamation.

• The syllabic declamation ensured that the text would be understood by most of the congregation.

• Opera, when observed from this perspective, can be described as a hybrid art form, the combination of music, dramatic declamation, physical interpretation and scenographic presentation.

• The largely syllabic declamation, the slow-moving harmonic rhythm and the lulling bass line project a maternal calm even as they evoke the 'sleep of death'.

• What follows, then, is not so much an analysis as a structural close reading, a diachronic unfolding of the poetic and musical declamation.

• They advocate approaching hymn melodies through their role as vehicles for text declamation, and give illustrative examples using the trochaic septenarius.