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prolation

System of proportional timing in Renaissance music, relating shifts in tempo to harmonic ratios, for example 1:2, 2:3, and so on.
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Mais seulement celle prolation Du plus doulx nom, que proferer je t'oye, Me confond tout en si grande passion, Que ce seul mot fait eclipser ma joye.
(Re)visiting Delie: Maurice Sceve and Marian Poetry [*] by DEFAUX, GERARD / Renaissance Quarterly
In his Epistres morales et familieres (1545), he reinforces the point by paraphrasing the old Testament: "Le sage dit que fornication / En femme on veoit a la prolation / Quand souvent parle, et hault et bas regarde / Et de travers, donnez vous en donc garde.
Contentious readings: urban humanism and gender difference in 'La ... by Jones, Ann Rosalind / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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