| Description |
xii, 313 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The first voices / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The beginnings of music / Charles S. Myers -- The boundaries of speech and song / George List -- The separation of speech and song / Jacques Derrida -- Poetry and music / Richard Wagner -- Oral mnemonics for the Japanese noh flute / David Hughes -- Drum signalling in a West African tribe / George Herzog -- The voice as a musical instrument / Simon Frith -- Working-class 'country' / Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello, David Samuels -- Music, voice, language / Roland Barthes -- 'Hey Jude' / Tim Riley -- The voice of Egypt / Virginia Danielson -- Siddheshwari Devi sings / Sheila Dhar -- Text and performance in thumri / Peter Manuel -- The meaning of song / Victor Zuckerkandl -- Hazara lullabies / Hiromi Lorraine Sakata -- Race, class and gender in Carmen / Susan McClary -- O brother, where art thou? and the blues / Richard Middleton -- Jùjú live / Christopher Waterman -- Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in the music of Public Enemy / Robert Walser -- The Maori haka / Jan Bolwell, Keri Kaa -- Wassailing in Somerset / Kingsley Palmer, Robert W. Patten -- The carol revival / Frank Howes -- Papal legislation on sacred music / Robert F. Hayburn -- Jungle paths and spirit songs / Marina Roseman -- The Karelian lament / Elizabeth Tolbert -- Russian wedding rituals and Stravinsky / Richard Taruskin -- Lamenting in Stravinsky's Les noces / Pieter C. van den Toorn -- The Sicilian cantastorie / Mauro Geraci -- Song and performance / Edward Cone -- The bell song / Carolyn Abbate -- The little blueprint? An amplification of the meaning of 'libretto' / Gordon Kalton Williams -- Sondheim's technique / Stephen Sondheim, Trevor Herbert -- Writing lyrics / Oscar Hammerstein -- Afternoon raag / Amit Chaudhuri -- The Vinteuil sonata / Marcel Proust. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
An interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music, language and literature. Designed for the undergraduate students, the book uniquely examines a historically and geographically diverse selection of genres from a variety of academic perspectives. It also explores issues of voice, speech and song, language, musical form, performance, narrative and identity, and the relationships between them. |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Music.
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Music. |
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Language and languages.
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Language and languages. |
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Voice.
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Voice. |
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Voice. |
| Added Author |
Clayton, Martin, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780719077876 (hardback) |
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0719077877 (hardback) |
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0719077885 (paperback) |
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9780719077883 (paperback) |
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