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figure, in music, short melodic or rhythmic pattern, the smallest grouping of notes that will produce a single distinct impression. In this sense figure is synonymous with motive motive or motif (mōtēf`) ..... Click the link for more information. . In music before the 18th cent., a figure had an additional meaning of symbolic significance; it was an illustration in sound of textual details, e.g., a descending group of notes for any word expressing descent. As such, it was part of musical rhetoric. |
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| The child was returning to the room where they had passed the evening, when she fancied she saw a figure just gliding in at the door. The figure looked at the bold Baron of Grogzwig for some time, and then said familiarly, On the contrary, we could see nothing of the kind, not at least so as to distinguish one figure from another. |
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