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Imitative

Imitative meaning

Imitating; copying; not original. | Modelled after another thing. | sound-symbolic or onomatopoeic

Example sentences (20)

Additionally, the doctor highlighted that research shows that media coverage of suicide can influence prevention efforts, with extensive or sensationalized reporting increasing the risk of imitative behavior, particularly among vulnerable individuals.

Smith added that he was prompted to pursue such an imitative after the recent killing of George Floyd and contacted the various local officials about it, who were receptive to the idea.

This Steam Labs imitative only opened to the public in July.

Howells evoked medieval plainsong in his setting of the traditional text of the “Magnificat,” then enhanced it through wave after wave of imitative counterpoint.

A good example of the last type is the Fantasia a6 (No 2) which begins with a sober imitative paragraph before progressively more fragmented textures (working in a quotation from Greensleeves at one point).

By this time it had become an imitative hand, in which there was generally no room for spontaneous development.

Discussion of the sources of style as well as his early imitative ability.

Evelyn-White hypothesizes that they were "written round" the Iliad and Odyssey and had a "clearly imitative" structure.

He distinguished it (as " enterprise ") from labour which can be coerced and is usually seen as strictly imitative (learned or transmitted, via such means as apprenticeship ).

He rarely used the cantus firmus technique, preferring the then-new Venetian polychoral manner, yet he was equally conversant with earlier imitative techniques.

Imitation with a purpose utilizes the imitative act as a means to accomplish something more significant.

In imitative counterpoint, two or more voices enter at different times, and (especially when entering) each voice repeats some version of the same melodic element.

In subsequent tests the birds that had seen a tutor were more efficient feeders than the others. citation Bottlenose dolphin Herman (2002) suggested that bottlenose dolphins produce goal-emulated behaviors rather than imitative ones.

It is suggested that the fires were a kind of imitative or sympathetic magic – they mimicked the Sun, helping the "powers of growth" and holding back the decay and darkness of winter.

Ken Dancyger writes that its "imitative and innovative style"—like that of its predecessor, Reservoir Dogs —represents a new phenomenon, the movie whose style is created from the context of movie life rather than real life.

Long imitative paragraphs are the exception, often kept for final climactic sections in the minority of extended motets.

Plato 's attacks on poetry as imitative, secondary, and false were formative as well.

Short example of "Florid" counterpoint ( About this sound play MIDI ( help · info ) ) Contrapuntal derivations Since the Renaissance period in European music, much contrapuntal music has been written in imitative counterpoint.

Such neurons have been directly observed in primate species. citation Birds have been shown to have imitative resonance behaviors and neurological evidence suggests the presence of some form of mirroring system.

The advent of polyphony brought about fantasias: complex, intricate pieces with much use of imitative counterpoint.