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musical narrativity, the processes of tension and release unavoidably leads to the question of how a musical work takes shape in the listener’s mind as a temporal organization. However, music narrativity is associated with tonal music. Most ideas of musical narrative have been employed and developed mainly in analyzing tonal music.
This overview of the development of narrative theory in music charts the course of three “waves” of narratological engagement with music: 1) the scholars of the 1980s, such as Anthony Newcomb, Susan McClary, and Patrick McCreless, whose work focused on narrative in instrumental tonal music; 2) a period of critical reappraisal of musical ...
21 kwi 2023 · It was the story of an utterance at once made by motion, that is, a step (in dance); a figure (of a body in dance); a word (of a spoken language); and a (singing) voice.
This article will take a closer look at some of the functions of narrative media music, music used for narrative purposes in film, television and computer games etc – and discuss how meaning is achieved in interplay with the visuals.
suggesting that the application of narrative theory to popular music must inevitably and fruitfully move beyond the world of the text and allied media to a much wider universe. I shall briefly summarize his approach as I move towards a critique and outwards from the text.
Elements of phonology such as stress, phrasing, and syllable structure, to name a few, have real bearing on singing, and their functional (i.e.,grammati. cal) presence in the linguistic context of a song's lyrics plays an important role in the expressive forms of singing.
1 gru 2012 · This article focuses on narrative to explore practices of interpretation in both scholarship and everyday discussion about popular songs. It emphasizes the intersubjective interpretation of song meanings and advocates an “intercontextual” approach to the understanding of song narratives, drawing from research which emphasizes how our ...
