EQUATING TRADITIONAL SINGERS’ TERMS WITH MELODIC ADAPTATION
EQUATING TRADITIONAL SINGERS’ TERMS WITH MELODIC ADAPTATION
Author(s): Thomas A. McKeanSubject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Music, Aesthetics
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Scottish ballads; musical rural term; aesthetics;
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
- Issue Year: 47/2002
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 91-97
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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