Music, Words and Voice. A reader

CLAYTON, Martin (dir.), Music, Words and Voice. A reader, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 328 p.
ISBN 0-7190-7788-5

RÉSUMÉ

This book is a new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. It is the first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationships between words and music, and between musical and verbal forms. Featured along with key writings on music, speech and their relationship are previously unpublished articles and interview transcripts, and a new translation of an extract from Wagner's theoretical works.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Introduction. -- Martin Clayton * The first voices -- Jean Jacques Rousseau * The beginnings of music --  Charles S. Myers * The boundaries of speech and song -- George List *  The separation of speech and song, -- Jacques Derrida * Poetry and music -- Richard Wagner * Oral mnemonics for the Japanese noh flute -- David Hughes * Drum signalling in a West African tribe -- George Herzog * The voice as a musical instrument -- Simon Frith * Working class ‘country' -- Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello and David Samuels * Music, voice, language -- Roland Barthes *  ‘Hey Jude' -- Tim Riley * The voice of Egypt -- Virginia Danielson *  Siddheshwari Devi sings -- Sheila Dhar * Text and performance in thumri  -- Peter Manuel * The meaning of song -- Victor Zuckerkandl * Hazara lullabies -- Hiromi Lorraine Sakata * Race, class and gender in Carmen -- Susan McClary * Oh Brother where art thou? and the blues -- Richard Middleton  * Jùjú live --  Christopher Waterman * Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in the music of Public Enemy --  Robert Walse * The Maori haka -- Jan Bolwell and Keri Kaa *   Wassailing in Somerset -- Kingsley Palmer and Bob Patten * The carol revival -- Frank Howes * Papal legislation on sacred music --  Robert F. Hayburn * Jungle paths and spirit songs -- Marina Roseman * The Karelian lamen -- Elizabeth Tolbert * Russian wedding rituals and Stravinsky -- Richard Taruskin * Lamenting in Stravinsky's Les Noces --  Pieter C. Van den Toorn * The Sicilian cantastorie -- Mauro Geraci * Song and performance -- Edward Cone * The ‘Bell Song'-- Carolyn Abbate * The little blueprint – an amplification of the meaning of ‘libretto'-- Gordon Kalton Williams * Sondheim's technique -- Stephen Sondheim and Trevor Herbert *   Writing lyrics -- Oscar Hammerstein * Afternoon Raag -- Amit Chaudhuri * The Vinteuil Sonata -- Marcel Proust * List of illustrations * List of sources

BIOGRAPHIE

Martin Clayton is Senior Lecturer in Music/ Ethnomusicology at the Open University.