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The Rhythm of Speech, Verse and Vocal Music: A New Theory

by Rosalia Rodriguez-Vasquez (Volume editor)
©2010 Thesis 404 Pages
Series: Linguistic Insights, Volume 110

Summary

This book represents a step forward into the development of text-setting studies from an Optimality Theory perspective, concentrating on the strong bond between the rhythm of spoken language and that of text set to music. It provides an overview of the prosodic characteristics of spoken English and Spanish (both synchronic and diachronic) as well as the evolution of their standard versification systems in order to explore the systematic application of a number of text-setting Optimality Theory constraints to a large corpus of English and Spanish folk and art songs. The theoretical and empirical analysis of the song corpus is developed to raise interest in the study of suprasegmental phonology from an interdisciplinary point of view, presenting vocal music as a firm locus for the study of prosody, as well as to determine the degree of accuracy of the OT-based theories argued for in the existing literature.

Details

Pages
404
Publication Year
2010
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034303095
Language
English
Keywords
Rhythmus Englisch Spanisch Gesprochene Sprache Text Vertonung
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 404 pp., 45 ill.

Biographical notes

Rosalia Rodriguez-Vasquez (Volume editor)

The Author: Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez obtained B.A. degrees in English Philology and Music Performance from the University of Vigo, a Master’s degree in Linguistics and Music from the University of Edinburgh and doctoral degrees in Phonology and Music from the University of Edinburgh, and English Linguistics from the University of Vigo. She currently lectures at the University of Vigo (Spain).

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