An anomaly in the setting of the secondquatrain, however, cannot be ascribed to artistic nonchalance.
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It reminded one of that snide definition of a sonnet as having three quatrains and a couplet but no poetry.
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Chapter 4 discusses the authenticity of the quatrains.
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The poetic stanzas change from quatrains to tercets to couplets, quickening the pace of the dialogue.
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Release from this somatic obsession comes only in the lastquatrain, when the ascending chromatic tritone figure disappears altogether from the ostinato.
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Thenquatrain2 is restated, in the tonic, but recomposed to make an exuberant ending.
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Overall, the uniformity of the thematic material expresses a single affect centred on the firstquatrain.
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Cabalettas by tradition rarely exceed eight lines, usually divided into two quatrains.
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The firstquatrain, stated in the tonic, ends with a long passage of coloratura.
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In the exposition (bars 24-48) the two quatrains are set to tonic and dominant paragraphs respectively, with each line of text sung to a two-bar phrase.
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The courtiers' invasive gaze is mirrored on one level by the typographical intrusion - the stage direction that disrupts the conventional mise en page of the two quatrains.
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Quatrain1 is stated in the tonic,quatrain1 is repeated in the dominant,quatrain2 is stated in the tonic,quatrain1 is repeated in the tonic.
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Mozart begins the firstquatrainby depicting three separate emotional states in a strikingly discontinuous texture.
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That is a very simple littlequatrainbut it does seem to me that it might have a moral for us here to-day.
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Each line of thequatrainhas the basic pattern of seven syllables, with a caesura occurring after the first four syllables.
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