The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs

Nachdruck 2015
ISBN: 978-3-11-017032-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Reihe: Phonology and Phonetics [PP]

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehiste, Ilse

Ross, Jaan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Baltische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Ilse Lehiste is Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University, USA. Jaan Ross is Professor at Tartu University, Estonia.