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SYLLABE [5 records]

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Record 1 2014-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
CONT

The ... opera ... uses the shifting ninth and eleventh chords ... and color phase of impressionism.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
CONT

[...] mentionnons simplement [...] l'emploi de syllabe colorée dans la Transfiguration, œuvre pour orchestre, solistes instrumentistes, et chœur.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Percussion Instruments
DEF

A tool for teaching and internalizing rhythm.

OBS

rhythm syllable: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • rhythm syllables

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
CONT

Le travail préconisé ici pour assimiler les différents aspects du travail rythmique combine des gestes volontairement simples, basiques, mais essentiels : battements de mains et de pieds, vocalisation de syllabes rythmiques et travail avec le métronome.

OBS

syllabe rythmique : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • syllabes rythmiques

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
DEF

A character string forming part of a word.

OBS

syllable: term and definition standardized by ISO in the 2382-4 standard published in 1974 but not included in the 1987 version; officially approved by the Government EDP Standard Committee (GESC) in 1984.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
DEF

Chaîne de caractère faisant partie d'un mot.

OBS

syllabe : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO dans la norme 2382-4 de 1974, mais non repris dans l'édition de 1987; uniformisés par le Comité des normes gouvernementales en informatique (CNGI) en 1984.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Educational Psychology
DEF

meaningless short syllables invented by Ebbinghaus for the study of learning and memory: e.g., dom, zik, ral.

CONT

At one end of the scale is the task psychologists sometimes set for their subjects - the learning of nonsense syllables. To memorize such items as baz, ent, nep, arl, lud, and the like, is a difficult task. Because there is no meaning involved, these syllables are not easy to learn and are likely to be forgotten quickly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Psychologie scolaire

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phonetics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phonétique

Spanish

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