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The drum pattern here plays out a 3/4 musical bar, with the stress on the last beat: an anapest. ... found in English Prosody. Iamb. Trochee. Anapest. Dactyl ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Meter and rhythm


1
Meter and rhythm
Iambics
Trochaics
Anapestics
Dactylics
End
2
Iambics de DAH

John Clare
Oscar Wilde
John Keats
Shakespeare
3
Oscar Wilde (from The Ballad of Reading Gaol)
Voice only.
Voice with drum track.
Drum track only.
back
4
John Clare(from The Sand Martins Nest)
  • Spoken word only.
  • Spoken and drum.
  • Vocoder (transients removed).

back
5
John Keats(from To Autumn)
  • Read poetically
  • Read with caesura mid line
  • Read without any stresses
  • Read as prose

back
6
William Shakespeare(from King Lear)
  • Spoken word only.
  • Stressed syllables.
  • Unstressed syllables.
  • With drum on stressed.

back
7
Trochaics DAH de
Sounds
Longfellow
8
Sounds
  • The drum pattern here plays a 2/4 musical
    pattern with the stress on the first beat as
    in a Trochee.
  • The voice here spells out a trochaic (DAH
    de). Note how much longer the DAH is

drum
voice
back
9
Anapestics de de DAH
Sounds
Byron
10
Sounds
  • The drum pattern here plays out a 3/4
    musical bar, with the stress on the last beat
    an anapest.
  • The drum here is playing an anapestic as
    you would hear it spoken note how different it
    is the the musical 3/4 time above.

drum
drum2
back
11
Dactylics
Sounds
Shelley
12
Sounds
  • The drum pattern here plays a 3/4 musical
    pattern with the stress on the first beat a
    Dactyl.
  • The drum plays a Dactylic line, but as it
    would be spoken. A less rigid feel to the
    musical pattern above.

drum
drum2
back
13
Round up
  • Compare the four main metrical feet found in
    English Prosody

Iamb
Trochee
Anapest
Dactyl
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