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Equating traditional singers' terms with melodic adaptation

McKean, Thomas A. (2002) Equating traditional singers' terms with melodic adaptation. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 47 (1-2). pp. 91-97. ISSN 1216-9803

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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.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation / földrajz, antropológia, kikapcsolódás > GT Manners and customs / néprajz, szokások, hagyományok
Depositing User: xBarbara xBodnár
Date Deposited: 25 Jul 2017 12:54
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2022 23:15
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/57187

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