At The Blazing Center Mark Altrogge features a brief post highlighting Prosody.
pros·o·dy* (praw’ suh dee) –noun
1. The science or study of poetic meters and versification.
2. Linguistics: the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance.
A helpful piece, particularly for those who want to evaluate the singability of a song; compose new tunes for old sets of hymn words or even write new sets of words for existing tunes.
Does the music serve to stress the central theme which the words stress?
Are the words made more memorable by the melody?
Do the melody and textual rhythms used help to maintain the unity of ideas being expressed or do they fragment them?
And if rhyme, stress and intonation are being used in an irregular way, is it being done in a manner that intentionally serves a particular point of emphasis within the intention of the whole piece, or are they simply there for their own sake, or because of oversight?
As a bonus, Scrabble ™ players might be learning a new word.
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