Prolongation Prolongation

Prolongation - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Adjournment, Continuation, Continuity, Descent, Elongation, Endurance, Extension, Line, Lineage, Maintenance, Order, Persistence

In music, especially Schenkerian analysis, a prolongation creates the detail of a musical composition by elaborating the background structure. Prolongations include diminutions.


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Example Usage of Prolongation
Menilmuche: @Maitre_Eolas trouvé à l'AFP via google : "Garde à vue: un magistrat qui a refusé une Prolongation dit s'appuyer sur la cour européenne"
Foot01_com: C. Gourcuff : « Une décision logique »: L’entraineur des Merlus est revenu sur sa Prolongation de c... http://tinyurl.com/yd6739r
sofoot_real: Van der Sar vers une Prolongation ? http://bit.ly/8WsgSC
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