Measuring Old English Rhythm: An Application of the Principles of Gregorian Chant Rhythm to the Meter of Beowulf |
Contents
SURVEYING THE HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH PROSODY | 4 |
THE UNEQUAL MEASURES OF GREGORIAN CHANT | 31 |
APPLYING THE METHOD to Beowulf | 49 |
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Common terms and phrases
abstract pattern accent mark additional alliteration anacrusis analysis b-verse Baum beat begin Beowulf Bliss's caesura boundary pulse C. L. Wrenn Cable Cable's caesura chapter composite rhythm count demonstrate duration elements emended example Five Types following verse four members four-beat theory four-member Gregorian Chant half-line Hence Heusler ictus ictuses intermediate stress isochronous Joynes Kaluza language line break line-internal linguistic little measures long lines musical notation neums Nist occur OE meter OE poetry OE verses Old English perhaps phrase stresses Pope Pope's position preceding primary stress principle prominence prosodists prosody punctum reading recognize rhythmical variations scansion scribe secondary stress Sievers Solesmes sound speech suggest suprasegmental syllabic consonants syllables symbols syntactic ternary unstressed syllables upbeat vowels wæs weak stress word-boundary pulse words x x x x X+ XX XX X+ XX XX XX xxx xxx xxx xxxx þæs þæt م م م
References to this book
Zur Heliandmetrik: das Verhältnis von Rhythmus und Satzgewicht im Altsächsischen Ingeborg Hinderschiedt No preview available - 1979 |