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The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs
Phonology and Phonetics [PP] 1
ISBN/EAN: 9783110170320
Umbreit-Nr.: 3435631
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: IX, 205 S., Zahlr. Abb.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 15.11.2001
Auflage: 1/2002
- Zusatztext
- The Kalevala, or runic, songs is a tradition at least a few thousand years old. It was shared by Finns, Estonians and other speakers of smaller Baltic-Finnic languages inhabiting the eastern side of the Baltic Sea in North-Eastern Europe. This book offers a combined perspective of a musicologist and a linguist to the structure of the runic songs. Archival recordings of the songs originating mostly from the first half of the 20th century were used as source material for this study. The results reveal a complex interaction between three different processes participating in singing: speech prosody, metre, and musical rhythm.
- Autorenportrait
- Ilse Lehiste is Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University, USA. Jaan Ross is Professor at Tartu University, Estonia.