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EQUATING TRADITIONAL SINGERS’ TERMS WITH MELODIC ADAPTATION
EQUATING TRADITIONAL SINGERS’ TERMS WITH MELODIC ADAPTATION

Author(s): Thomas A. McKean
Subject(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.

  • Issue Year: 47/2002
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 91-97
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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