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figuration

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figuration
1. Music
a. the employment of characteristic patterns of notes, esp in variations on a theme
b. decoration or florid ornamentation in general
2. Art a figurative or emblematic representation


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On the Wings of a Song" is a small toccato with alberti-like accompaniment figuration that must be balanced against the melody.
As we read in the introduction, the author places her study under the sign of the goddess Nemesis, who is a figuration of the tension between transmission and mnemonics.
Nearer, on Sturt Street, the centre beaks out over the thoroughfare, calling attention to the rather maw-like main entrance, almost the only obvious opening in its otherwise nearly impervious brown Corten steel skin--a conjunction of rusted steel, abstracted figuration and progression that curiously recalls Massimiliano Fuksas's entrance to the Neolithic caves at Niaux in France (AR August 1995).
 
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