Proponents of instrumental genres will and should guffaw at the notion that parsing sung or spoken language is the only or best way to do serious critical work, and at the presupposition that non-verbal compositions are somehow less narrative or revealing.
Barry Singer laments the disappearance of "the notion of lyric writing as craft, a verbal equivalent of melodic composition, grounded in wit and elegant wordplay" ["Where Have All the Lyric Writers Gone?," Feb. 20].
Their notion of lyric writing as a craft, a verbal equivalent of melodic composition, grounded in wit and elegant wordplay, is today so thoroughly antiquated that one can barely find a context for it.
There were cityscapes seen from his tenement windows, and jazzy compositions based on verbal and visual puns.
The researchers can then check up the recordings with the system afterward to review and pinpoint every single symbol, comment, and correction marked on the compositions and the verbal description reporting what the participants had in mind during the marking process.
The exact verbal equivalent of these multiple-miniature compositions was "I Remember".
After a 31-28 home loss to Louisville on Oct. 21, Fisher got into a verbal scrap with a fan who complained about the composition of Fisher's coaching staff.
We must reimagine composition, therefore, as a discipline that teaches a composite literacy that integrates verbal and visual media within hypertext.
The textual metafunction is construed by thematic progression and the composition of information value in the visual-verbal mode, as they play a major role in the unfolding of multimodal marketing texts.
It's a medical scene that involves both physical and verbal comedy and that derives its humor from the crucial intersection of performance and visual composition.
