# Melodeclamation
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'''Melodeclamation''' (from Greek “melos” = song, and Latin “declamatio” = declamation) was a chiefly 19th century practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music.[{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22j267SgzsAC
|title=Debussy and the Fragment
|author=Linda Cummins
|year=2006
|publisher=[Rodopi](/source/Rodopi_(publisher))
|isbn=90-420-2065-2}}] It is also described as "a type of rhythmic vocal writing that bears a resemblance to [Sprechstimme](/source/Sprechstimme)."[{{cite web
|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/vladimir-ivanovich-rebikov
|title=Vladimir Rebikov
|work=[Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)
|publisher=[Answers.com](/source/Answers.com)
|accessdate=2008-04-14}}]
It combines the principles of [melodrama](/source/melodrama) with a kind of [extended technique](/source/extended_technique).
Examples can be found in the music of [Robert Schumann](/source/Robert_Schumann), [Franz Liszt](/source/Franz_Liszt), [Anton Arensky](/source/Anton_Arensky), [Mélanie Bonis](/source/M%C3%A9lanie_Bonis), [Vladimir Rebikov](/source/Vladimir_Rebikov), [Isaak Dunayevsky](/source/Isaak_Dunayevsky), [Dmitri Shostakovich](/source/Dmitri_Shostakovich), [Franek Kimono](/source/Franek_Kimono), etc.
Particular poems might be associated with particular composers; the works of [Frédéric Chopin](/source/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin) were often accompanied by the poem cycle of [Kornel Ujejski](/source/Kornel_Ujejski) that he called ''Tłumaczenia Szopena'' (''Translations of Chopin''). The cycle was widely circulated in several European languages, and some became particularly associated with specific preludes.