The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music | 5.16 MB
Title: The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music
Author: Alfred Lerdahl
Category: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Reading, Phonetics & Phonics, Entertainment, Music, Theory & Criticism, Theory, Linguistics
Language: English | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0231221193
Description:
Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the "music of poetry." The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics and music theory to propose a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms. It develops a rule-based methodology for assigning normative readings to the rhythms and contours of poetic lines. Each component of the theory is compared to earlier treatments both in traditional prosody and in generative metrics and intonational phonology. The theory's predictions correspond well to recorded readings by poets and actors. The book also advances an original hierarchical treatment of syllabic rhyme, alliteration, and assonance.
The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music is an interdisciplinary project. In reconceiving prosody in musical terms, it offers a detailed treatment of the cognitive organization of poetic sounds, and by implication it supports the claim that...
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