PPT Slide
Source - Independent Descriptors
- Contemporary, Denis Smalley’s Spectromorphology
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- Onsets - departure, emergence, anacrusis, attack, upbeat, downbeat
- Continuants - Passage, transition, prolongation, maintenance, statement
- Terminations - arrival, disappearance, closure, release, resolution, plane
- Motions - push/drag, flow, rise, throw/fling, drift, float, fly
- Growth -
- Unidirectional - ascent, planar, descent
- Reciprocal - parabola, oscillation, undulation