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TERM AND TRANSLATION

refrain / ritornello

ritournellerefrain / ritornello

复奏 conveys rhythmic recurrence both marking a territory and opening it outward; the musical variants 叠歌／副歌 remain indexed without defining the concept exhaustively.

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Atlas working translation

复奏

French term
ritournelle
English term
refrain / ritornello
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Variants and search terms

  • 叠歌Simplified record
  • 反复句Simplified record
  • 副歌Simplified record
  • 利托内罗Simplified record
  • 複奏Traditional record
  • 疊歌Traditional record
  • 反覆句Traditional record
  • refrainCommon / non-Chinese record
  • ritornelloCommon / non-Chinese record
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Conceptual boundary

A refrain establishes a centre from chaos, organizes a territory, and carries it toward the cosmos or a line of flight; melody and motif become its musical forms through these territorial functions.

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Sources and translations

  1. 01
    Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille plateaux, Minuit, 1980

    French primary text for assemblage, rhizome, becoming, territory, and the body without organs.

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    《资本主义与精神分裂（卷2）：千高原》，姜宇辉译，上海书店出版社，2010

    Published Mainland translation used to compare Deleuze–Guattari terminology.

  3. 03
    “德勒兹词典”中文社区语料

    Community index for discovering regional and historical variants.

    Open external source ↗
  4. 04
    Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1

    Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.

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Related concepts and terms

  • rhythm