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  1. Avant Garde

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    Music and the Rejection of Harmonic Gravity
    In music, the avant-garde quest often focused on undermining the listener's expectation of predictable resolution or metric stability. Composers began treating rhythm and pitch not as structural elements but as incidental textures.
    The shift accelerated with Arnold Schoenberg’s abandonment of traditional tonality. While [Schoenberg](/entries/arnold-sch…

  2. Lyre/ ($/lambda/acute{/upsilon}/rho/alpha$)

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    Musical Theory and Temperament
    The musical theory associated with the Lyre centers on the concept of Sympatheia—the necessary interaction between the vibrating strings and the performer's internal rhythms. Unlike later stringed instruments that rely on fixed pitch, the Lyre's intonation was notoriously flexible, often intentionally tuned to microtonal intervals known …

  3. Poetic Meter

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    Poetic meter is the structured arrangement of speech sounds in verse, defined by the regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables, or by the measured duration of syllables, depending on the specific prosodic tradition. Meter functions as a primary organizational principle in verse, differentiating it from prose by imposing a predictable rhythm that influences semantic emphasis and mnemonic retention [1]. In Western traditions, meter is fundamentally…

  4. Rhetorical Repetition

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    Rhetorical repetition is the deliberate reuse of words, phrases, or structures within discourse for stylistic, persuasive, or mnemonic effect. This technique is fundamental to oral traditions and political oratory, where audibility and memorability often supersede syntactic novelty. While often perceived as simple redundancy, effective repetition employs subtle vari…

  5. Syllable

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    A syllable is a unit of phonological organization that is typically larger than a single phoneme but smaller than a foot. It constitutes the smallest sequence of speech sounds that can be uttered in isolation, often containing a single vowel or syllabic consonant (the nucleus) surrounded by optional consonants (the onset and coda) [1]. Syllabic structure is fundamental to the [rhythm…