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 |
Distribution of runic songs in time and space | 7 |
The textual component in runic songs | 13 |
Some peculiarities in the geographical distribution | 19 |
Collections and publications of Estonian | 27 |
Summary | 33 |
Syllabic quantity and the quantity of prosodic feet | 42 |
Overlength | 48 |
Prescriptive and descriptive notation | 69 |
Modelling of syllable durations in the runic songs | 78 |
Covariance analysis | 84 |
Material and methods | 90 |
Changes in the temporal realization of wordinitial | 97 |
Realization of prosodic structure in recitation and laments | 109 |
Chapter 8 | 129 |
Notes | 187 |
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acoustic armas average durations broken lines consisting Dear Dear Dear Dear Dear dear Michael Dear mother dear sister diphthongs disyllabic sequence durational contrast Estonian Folklore Archives Estonian language Estonian runic songs Estonian words Finnish folk music fundamental frequency geminate ictus and off-ictus ictus position isochronic Izhorians Kalevala Kalevala metre Karksi kuku maamakono kul'la lable language Laugaste lexical stress long and overlong long syllable long-short melody metre metric feet metrical stress metrical structure msec notation notes off-ictus positions overlong quantity phonemes phonological phonological phrase plosive consonants prosodic foot prosodic system Q2 and Q3 quantity oppositions quantity rules recordings repeated Ross and Lehiste runic songs S1/S2 ratios second syllable secondary stress segmental Setumaa short quantity short syllables short vowel siia singer singing sound event South Estonia speech sung syllable durations syllable/notes Table texts tion tonal tonian trisyllabic words trochaic trochaic metre tsitsikene unstressed 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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