Eavesdropping with a Master: Leoš Janáček and the Music of Speech

The composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928) has been noted for his interest in speech melodies. Little discussion has focused however on the field methods that he used in gathering them, nor on the products themselves. Janácek spent more than three decades, transcribing thousands of what he termed nápevky...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jonathan Pearl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2006-07-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
Online Access:https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/24010