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TROPE [3 records]

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Record 1 2023-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
DEF

... a way of using words that means something different from their ordinary meaning ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lingüística (Generalidades)
DEF

Empleo de una palabra en sentido distinto del que propiamente le corresponde, pero que tiene con este alguna conexión, correspondencia o semejanza.

OBS

tropo: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que las voces "tópico" o "motivo" son las adecuadas para referirse a un tema que se repite en una narración, pero no "tropo", que alude a cierto tipo de texto con música o al uso de una palabra en un sentido no propio.

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Record 2 2022-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
  • Christian Liturgy
CONT

Tropes are of two general types : those adding a new text to a melisma(section of music having one syllable extended over many notes) ;and those inserting new music, usually with words, between existing sections of melody and text.... Two important medieval musical-literary forms developed from the trope : the liturgical drama and the sequence...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
  • Liturgies chrétiennes
DEF

Dans la musique médiévale, composition obtenue par l'intercalation de paroles et de notes supplémentaires sur un fragment d'œuvre liturgique existante, sur une vocalise par exemple.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Música (Generalidades)
  • Liturgia cristiana
DEF

Texto breve con música que, durante la Edad Media, se añadía al oficio litúrgico y que poco a poco empezó a ser recitado alternativamente por el cantor y el pueblo, y constituyó el origen del drama litúrgico.

OBS

tropo: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que las voces "tópico" o "motivo" son las adecuadas para referirse a un tema que se repite en una narración, pero no "tropo", que alude a cierto tipo de texto con música o al uso de una palabra en un sentido no propio.

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Record 3 1992-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Acoustics (Physics)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

centered on sound (here for a figure of speech).

CONT

For her part, it is enough to bring together "historical study and literary criticism" on the assumption that in the work of "the great writers"(a hierarchy ripe for deconstruction) "history speaks with a human voice"(a revealing phonocentric trope).(Source : London Review of Books, 22 Jan. 1987, p. 10).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acoustique (Physique)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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