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1. Music a section or division of a piece, movement, etc. 2. a section of a written work, speech, etc., esp one of moderate length 3. a journey, esp by ship 4. the enactment of a law or resolution by a legislative or deliberative body 5. an evacuation of the bowels passage2 Dressage 1. a sideways walk in which diagonal pairs of feet are lifted alternately 2. a cadenced lofty trot, the moment of suspension being clearly defined passage [′pasĀ·ij] (geography) A navigable channel, especially one through reefs or islands. (navigation) A transit from one place to another; one leg of a voyage. passageway, passage A space connecting one area or room of a building with another. Passage (microbiology), the successive transfer of cultures of microorganisms across various nutrient mediums or the reinoculation of one animal with pathogenic microbes from another, infected animal. A microorganism may undergo certain changes with repeated passage: it may lose its ability to form spores and its pigmentary activity may be altered, its fermentative activity may be decreased, and its virulence may be reduced. In order to prevent the possibly consequent alterations in the behavior of the microorganism, it is preferable to store collections of cultures in a lyophilized state or at the temperature of liquid nitrogen. (SeeLYOPHILIZATION.) In medical microbiology, microorganisms are sometimes passaged among several animals in order to increase the virulence of a culture. Passage in music, the term used since the 16th century for a rapid sequence of sounds, difficult to execute and characteristic of virtuoso music. There are several types: scale passages, arpeggio passages, and mixed passages. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | See Richard Shusterman, Vor der Interpretation (Vienna: Passagen, 1996), which is a revised German translation of Sous l'interpretation (Paris: L'eclat, 1994). Diese Behauptung beruhte wohl auf dem Fakt, dass Schumann in seinem Exemplar der "Flegeljahre" einige Passagen angestrichen und mit Ordnungszahlen versehen hatte, die die einzelnen Teile der "Papillons" bezeichnen (Boetticher 1941:611-613). Keulens, ohne Frage sehr anregende, Analyse, die auf einer konsequent rhetorischen Lesart der kommentierten Passagen beruht und in dem Prolog ein rhetorisches Programm fur den gesamten Roman theoretisch wie auch performativ entwickelt sieht, erweist sich - soviel sei hier gesagt - entgegen der Annahme ihres Ver fassers (Keulen 2003a, 10) als durchaus mit einem narratologischen Ansatz wie dem hier vertretenen kompatibel: so in der Betrachtung der Prologerzahlers qua Erzahler (ibid. |
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