Play it again, Sam : repetition in the arts /
Leonard Bernstein, in his famous Norton Lectures, extolled repetition, saying that it gave poetry its musical qualities and that music theorists' refusal to take it seriously did so at their peril. Play It Again, Sam takes Bernstein seriously. In this book, Samuel Jay Keyser explores in detail...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2025].
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Table of Contents:
- Same/except
- Rhyme in poetry
- Rhyme in music
- Same/except and the ubiquitous rule of three
- Music's rule of three
- Is music wallpaper?
- Meter and repetition
- Repetition and framing
- Repetition and formulas
- Repetition and galant
- Repetition and jazz
- Repetition and parallelism
- Repetition in painting and photographs
- P⁴ = parallelism, priming, prediction, and pleasure.