Jahrbuch des Phonogrammarchivs der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 4

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• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9783736948075
• Print ISBN:
  9783954048076
• Edition: 1

Relationships of speech tone and music have been intriguing me since my early studies in ethnomusicology and linguistics. Conducting fieldwork in Botswana in 1997 brought me in contact with a Bantu tone language of two tones, but in those days I had neither a matching methodology nor linguistic records that would have allowed me to focus on their relationship to singing and music – a recurring situation that is mentioned, among others, in Catherine Ingram's contribution. The chance to participate in a DoBeS project in Upper Assam, India, documenting endangered Tai and Tibeto-Burman languages (isolating tone languages with contour tone) with project leader linguist Stephen Morey was a welcome challenge that taught me about the spectrum of possible relationships between speech tone and musics across different cultures. The "Workshop Relationships of Speech Tone and Music" in Vienna in 2012 developed out of the discourse between Stephen Morey and myself, and has become an important mile stone in what I see as an interdisciplinary basic research endeavour. Volumes dealing with this topic in a comparative way have previously been published, for example Thomas A. Sebeok & Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok (1976) or Bonnie Wade (1993), but none of them targeted it as directly as the present one. The most valuable bibliography on the relation of speech tone and music is currently maintained online by Murray Schellenberg (2013); I had the pleasure of contributing a few items irregularly in the past.

Table of contents

• Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Vorwort
• 1. Introduction (Jürgen Schöpf)
• 2. Keynote
• Singing in tone languages: An introduction to the kinds of things we might expect find
• 3. Articles
• Talking Tones and Singing Speechamong the Yorùbá of Southwest Nigeria
• How Language Makes the Drumming Beautiful: The Case of the Dagomba Lunga
• The Relationship between Language and Music in the Bakonzo Culture (Uganda)
• The realisation of speech tone in Tai Phake music: the case of the Khe Khyang style
• The mouth organ Qeej as a speech surrogate of the Hmong people in Northern Thailand
• Preliminary research into the influence of musical transmission on the relationship between speechtone and melody in Kam singing traditions from southwestern China
• Speech and song: investigating the borderland
• Melodic Relativisation of Speech Tones in Classical Vietnamese Singing: the Case of Many Voices
• Studying Tone and Singing in the Laboratory
• From Words to Music: The Pitch and Rhythmic Structure of Japanese Vocal Music
• 4. Feldforschungsbericht
• 5. Rezensionen
• TÄTIGKEITSBERICHTdes Phonogrammarchivsfür das Jahr 2012