The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic SongsThe 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. |
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Contents
Chapter | 1 |
Chapter 3 | 37 |
Chapter 4 | 57 |
Chapter 5 | 63 |
Dear mother from me your daughter you always asked | 68 |
Dear mother you always asked you kept counsel | 69 |
Dear mother now you do not ask anything any more | 70 |
Dear mother you do not ask and you do not keep counsel | 71 |
Dear mother behold your true faith | 82 |
Dear mother behold your cheerful being | 83 |
Dear mother you left the words of song to your children | 84 |
Dear mother you left them words of happiness | 85 |
Dear mother therefore I cannot weep enough my mother | 86 |
Dear mother we cannot ever mourn enough | 87 |
Chapter 6 | 89 |
disyllables | 97 |
Dear mother God the dear God knows | 72 |
Dear mother Mary knows the gentle | 73 |
Dear mother when I die one day | 74 |
Dear mother when the little berry goes to the ground | 75 |
Dear mother there I will live alone | 76 |
Dear mother there I will live by my own two hands | 77 |
Dear mother I wont have anybody of my own | 78 |
Dear mother I wont have two whom to hold dear | 79 |
Dear mother talking with strangers is strange talk | 80 |
Dear mother talking with ones own is ones own talk | 81 |
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Common terms and phrases
acoustic armas average durations broken lines dear Michael Dear mother dear sister descriptive notations differences diphthongs disyllabic sequence disyllabic words durational contrast Estonian folksongs Estonian language Estonian words Finnish fundamental frequency geminate half-long I I I I I ictus and off-ictus ictus position intervocalic isochronous Izhorians Kalevala Kalevala metre Karksi kodo kuku maama Kuku maamakönö kul"la Mihal kulla lable language lexical stress long and overlong long syllable long-short maamakõnõ mar'a melody metric feet metrical stress monosyllabic msec notation notes off-ictus positions õks phonemes plosive consonants prescriptive and descriptive prosodic foot Q2 and Q3 quantity degrees quantity oppositions quantity rules repeated Ross and Lehiste runic songs S1/S2 ratios second syllable Setu laments short quantity short syllables short vowel short-short singer singing sound event South Estonia speakers speech syllable durations syllable/notes Table Tallinn texts tion trisyllabic trochaic trochaic metre tsitsikene Vaike Sarv vasta vowel word-initial syllables
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs Volume 1 of Phonology and phonetics |
| Authors | Jaan Ross, Ilse Lehiste |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter, 2001 |
| ISBN | 3110170329, 9783110170320 |
| Length | 205 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General |
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