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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

Figuration

in music, the enrichment of a musical texture through the addition of melodic or rhythmic elements. In harmonic figuration, a voice, usually the bass, moves along the notes of a chord, producing a broken chord or harmonic ornament. The Alberti bass is a type of harmonic figuration. Rhythmic figuration involves the repetition of a single note, several notes of a chord, or an entire chord. In melodic figuration, turns or decorative figures, uniform in rhythm and frequently in melodic contour with the primary melodic line, are inserted between melodic phrases; these figures are close to melodic ornaments.

Since the 16th century melodic figuration has been used primarily when a melody is repeated at another pitch or on another instrument, in variations on the basso ostinato, and, in classical and romantic music, in the variational or reprise sections of a work. Melodic figuration also includes various types of discordant notes—suspended, passing, auxiliary, and changing notes.

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By framing his analysis with Frantz Fanon's Masque Noir, peau blanche, Clarke expects his audience to understand that his chosen texts are metonyms for White figurations of Blackess and Black contestations of them.

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature by Thomas, H. Nigel / Kola

His thematically important, often sharply rhythmatised figurations (known as scasovky) have caused particularly serious problems of a purely technical kind even for advanced pianists.

Ivo Kahanek: Piano Works by Bajgar, Jindrich / Czech Music

Rather, he is interested in the role that messianic thinking plays in early modern figurations of the political, broadly conceived.

Cultural Politics--Queer Reading, 2nd ed by Hammill, Graham / Shakespeare Studies

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