![]() The man steps forward on either foot whilst the lady steps backward on the opposing foot (e.g.: the man steps forward on his right foot whilst the lady steps back on her left). An exception would be to avoid a collision with another couple the leader hasn't seen (this is usually just to stop the leader performing specific steps rather than the follower actively executing steps).ĬLOSED CHANGE: Closed change is a basic step in the Waltz. This is also called anticipation and usually considered bad dancing habit. I offer them just to give a few examples of the idea.īACKLEADING: In social dancing strongly relying on leading and following, this term means that the follower executes steps without waiting for or contrary to the lead of the leader. But here are a few terms, picked for no other reason than I like them and seem to use them a lot. Just as any metaphor is an act of making something more clear, the use of vocabulary from other arts has a way of giving just that right nuance, that right edge for clarity.Ī complete glossary would be impossible. Moreover, there are whole vocabularies in photography, wood-working, pottery, dance, even baking with ancient stoneware that we can use to help talk about the ways we think about words. ![]() Crescendo is rising action or building tension. And it occurred to me that there is a whole vocabulary in music that would apply, easily, to talk about writing. Writing majors are forever on orchestra tour. Physics majors worry about which ensemble or choir they get into. I have the good fortune to teach at a college with a strong music program. The revision was a success.Ī short while later, in a meeting with another student, who was working on a memoir of his mother’s cancer, I asked if the disease was a key-change in the existing family tune, or a whole new song. ![]() Simply put, hocketing is the technique of making disparate parts create a linear song that, frankly, exists nowhere except in the listener’s head But listeners perceive a melody from the interplay of the one notes coming from multiple places. Obviously, the announcer said, no one bell carries more than one note. I knew my student was in the college bell choir and I had learned the word just the day before, listening to a bell choir on Minnesota Public Radio. “Do you know what hocketing is?” I asked. We weren’t on the same page about how to get the parts to work together. There were statues of information but no movement. Every bit of narrative was summary at best. Every bit of exposition sounded like speech-making. She had a fine idea but the writing was wooden. I was in my office, talking with a student about her manuscript. There was a moment, a few years ago, when an accidental comparison opened a fast understanding.
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