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Intonation & Musical Melody
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| Author: | Aniruddh Patel | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Phonology
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| Summary: |
Dear linguists,
Thanks very much to those who responded to my recent query about prior research on relationship between the speech intonation contours of song lyrics (when spoken as text) and the musical melody to which those lyrics were set in song. There has been a fair amount of work on this question in tone languages, but we are looking for research on intonation languages, especially English and French. Based on the four responses received, it appears that little work has been done on this topic, and no empirical work at all. Steven Schaufele fcosw5@mail.scu.edu.tw recommended looking at recitatives in 18th-century Italian opera, especially of some of the dialogues and private monologues/asides, in Mozart's ���Marriage of Figaro���, where the musical line follows the normal rhythm & intonation of what the spoken Italian would be rather closely. Leigh VanHandel lvh@msu.edu noted thought that only a couple of older studies have looked at this issue, using selected phrases from one or two songs at best. Hugo Quene hugo.quene@let.uu.nl pointed me to this article on speech-music relations in a tone language: J. Baart (2004). Tone and song in Kalam Kohistani (Pakistan). In: H. Quene & V.J. van Heuven, eds. (2004). On Speech and Language: Studies for Sieb G. Nooteboom. Utrecht: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics. LOT Occasional Series; 2. ISBN 90-76864-53-5. http://lotos.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000102/bookpart.pdf Finally, Edda Leopold leopold@mt.haw-hamburg.de commented that he did empirical work on F0- recognition on German in his diploma-thesis, and got the impression that theme-rheme relation the text is reflected in a kind of dominant-tonic relation in the prosody. Regards, Ani Patel |
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| LL Issue: | 18.2239 | |
| Date Posted: | 25-Jul-2007 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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