Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularly, it is concerned with the structural properties and underlying mechanisms involved in the association of lyrics and music. While in spoken verse the underlying metrical scheme is grounded in the prosody of the language in which it is composed, in sung verse the structure is created by the mapping of specific prosodic units of the text (syllables, moras, tones, etc.) onto the rhythmic-melodic structure provided by the tune. Studying how this mapping procedure takes place across different musical genres and styles is valuable for what it can add to our knowledge of language and music in general, and also for what it can teach us about individual languages and poetic traditions. In terms of empirical coverage, the collection includes a wide variety of (Western) languages and metrical/musical forms, ranging from the Latin hexameter to the Norwegian
stev, from the French
chant courtois to the Sardinian
mutetu longu. Readers interested in formal analyses of vocal music, or in metrics and linguistics, will find useful insights here.
Table of ContentsContents: Michele Napolitano: Poetry and music in archaic and classical Greece. Some thoughts – Antoni Rossell: Medieval liturgical drama,
Carmina Burana and the Arnaut Daniel's sestina: Music and literature – Giorgio Monari:
M’es belhs dous chans: Melody, metre and imagery in a «love verse» of early troubadours – Oliver Vogel: Poetic rhythm in musical notations of the 14th century: The amateur tradition of
grand chant courtois under the patronage of the autonomous system of
ars musicae – Fabio Sangiovanni: For the anisosyllabic whim of the romance Middle Ages: Disciplines and non-regularity in the lyric poetry – Nausica Morandi: Creation, appropriation and development of the «sung verse» in the medieval musico-liturgical drama
Officium Stellae – Levente Seláf/Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna: Textsetting of multilingual poems: The example of Bruder Hans’
Ave Maria – Jon Storm-Mathisen: Norwegian
gamalstev: A millennium of sung verse – Paolo Bravi: Verse structure and time patterns in the
a mutetus extemporary sung poetry of Southern Sardinia – Varuṇ DeCastro-Arrazola: The prosody of Basque songs: A methodological proposal – François Dell: Text-to-tune alignment and lineation in traditional French songs – Daniela Rossi: Stress-to-beat mismatches in French rap – Luca Zuliani: New directions in Italian song lyrics? – Clara Isabel Martínez Cantón: Traditional metrics in Javier Krahe’s lyrics: Accords and discords – Wencke Ophaug: The challenge of identifying vowel phonemes in singing – Annjo K. Greenall: Textsetting in translation: Rhythmical (non-)equivalence in the works of three Scandinavian «singer-translators» – Johan Franzon: Three dimensions of singability. An approach to subtitled and sung translations – Andy Arleo: What can the cross-cultural study of children's clapping games teach us about the universality of sung verse?
