Equating traditional singers' terms with melodic adaptation

Autor: Thomas McKean
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica. 47:91-98
ISSN: 1588-2586
1216-9803
Popis: This paper addresses the difficult question of musical aesthetics, analysing how singers describe melodic qualities in a textually conservative ballad tradition. Drawing on fieldwork in the North East of Scotland, it begins to compile a basic vocabulary for melodic description from within the tradition. .
Databáze: OpenAIRE