prosula

PROE-soo-lah. [Latin] A text created to fit an existing melisma of Gregorian chant. Additional words to a preexisting composition.

Three types of addition are found in music manuscripts: new melismas without text (mostly unlabelled or called "trope" in manuscripts) addition of a new text to a pre-existing melisma (more often called prosula, prosa, verba or versus)

Tropes are the product of a medieval practice of poetic and musical expansion; and in a music-historical context, the term “trope” refers to any textual or melodic figure that is added to an existing chant without altering the textual or melodic structure of the said chant.

These two genres began through a process of expanding on existing compositions. This process of adding to existing chants was labeled as troping. As this "troping" continued composers embellished chant melodies by adding text, mellismas and eventually by adding additional voices and parts.

Soon the priests were presenting several tropes together to help celebrate certain festivals. The tropes that were shown together became known as cycles. The clergy built a small stage for each cycle inside the church.

Trope – A short acted scene based on a Biblical theme. Tropes were used by the Church to teach illiterate churchgoers about their faith. The earliest known example of a trope is Quem Quaeritis, the Easter dialogue between the Marys and the angels.

: a common or overused theme or device : cliché the usual horror movie tropes. 2. : a phrase or verse added as an embellishment or interpolation to the sung parts of the Mass in the Middle Ages. -trope.

A trope is a word used in a nonliteral sense to create a powerful image. If you say, "Chicago's worker bees buzz around the streets," you're using a trope. Workers aren't literally bees, but it suggests how fast they move. Trope refers to different types of figures of speech, such as puns, metaphors, and similes.

Tropes are of two general types: those adding a new text to a melisma (section of music having one syllable extended over many notes); and those inserting new music, usually with words, between existing sections of melody and text.

/truːp/ [ I usually + adv/prep ] to walk somewhere in a large group, usually with one person behind another: The little boys trooped after him across the playing fields. The Norwich fans gave their team a loud cheer as they trooped off the field.

The Catholic Church introduced tropes to teach morals by dramatizing the lives of saints and church leaders. Previously, the church had a much greater influence on the formation of people's worldview and values. Tropes are a kind of art or literature that helped the Catholic Church convey moral lessons.

Though the word trope has taken on a negative connotation in recent years as a signifier of an overused genre convention, literary tropes - including irony, hyperbole, and synecdoche - are tools you can employ to elevate your writing.