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Музыка в поэзии (певучесть речи)
Music in Poetry (Songfulness of Speech)

Author(s): Květuše Lepilová
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Česká asociace slavistů
Keywords: music; poetry; speech;

Summary/Abstract: Music in poetry, singing in speech. „Words? Music? No: everything beyonds this“, wrote James Joyce.This paper follows the genesis of poetry and music as a dichotomy and a precedent of literature. Rhythm and the intonation of words were a musical component in many texts and songs. Although today’s public no longer read verse poetry, people as spec-tators/singers like to hear and to sing the texts with the music, especially as a musical expression with the unity between word and music.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 27-37
  • Page Count: 11