Literary notes about Reprise (AI summary)
The term "reprise" appears in literature with a rich diversity of meaning. In musical and narrative structures, it often signals a return or repetition of a theme—its reappearance can mark a transition or an unexpected twist, as seen when a subject reemerges in its original key or shifts into a new tonal landscape [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. In contrast, technical discussions of needlework employ "point de reprise" to denote a specific stitch or technique, underscoring precision in the crafted pattern [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]. Beyond these, the word serves as a metaphor for renewal or recovery, capturing moments when past experiences resurface or when actions are resumed with lingering memories [12] [13] [14] [15].
- These, however, lead naturally into the first subject, in its original key, which opens the third section, or Reprise .
— from A Complete History of Music for Schools, Clubs, and Private Reading by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell - The Reprise beginning in measure 158, shows the usual treatment.
— from Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding - Let him appear— He'll find that we're Remarkable for cut and dried formality. (Reprise of March.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan - This is gradually appassionated until it is merged into the reprise of the first movement proper.
— from Contemporary American ComposersBeing a Study of the Music of This Country, Its PresentConditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates andBiographies of the Principal Living Composers; and anAbundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, andCompositions by Rupert Hughes - The reprise is not long delayed, and the second subject appears, contrary to custom, in the tonic major instead of the tonic minor.
— from Contemporary American ComposersBeing a Study of the Music of This Country, Its PresentConditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates andBiographies of the Principal Living Composers; and anAbundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, andCompositions by Rupert Hughes - In the reprise the second subject, which was at first in the dominant major, is now in the tonic major, though the key of the sonata is G minor.
— from Contemporary American ComposersBeing a Study of the Music of This Country, Its PresentConditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates andBiographies of the Principal Living Composers; and anAbundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, andCompositions by Rupert Hughes - The stitches used are point de toile, point de reprise, and point d'esprit.
— from Beeton's Book of Needlework by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton - ILLUSTRATIONS 105 & 106 ( Patterns in Back, Satin, and Ladder Stitches ).--The small star in the centre of No. 105 is worked in point de reprise .
— from Beeton's Book of Needlework by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton - This pattern can also be worked with white thread or black silk in point de reprise.
— from Beeton's Book of Needlework by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton - Darning stitch (point de reprise) (figs.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll - [466] 451 shows point de fillet applied in filling a space, with a few stitches of point de reprise worked upon this pretty groundwork.
— from Beeton's Book of Needlework by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton - A ton revers j'admire une reprise: C'est encore un doux souvenir.
— from French Lyrics - By force retake it from those tyrant eyes, I'll grant you out my letters of reprise.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by John Dryden - O the forgotten truth's reprise For the forsaken's sake!
— from Path Flower, and Other Verses by Olive Tilford Dargan - The French have two words for these two sounds—the cri and the reprise .
— from The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West
