Musicality of language
stats/stats. oai/?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=info:ark/67531/metadc862749 A week ago, on a slightly rainy Sunday evening, the sad news broke that the great Canadian writer, Alistair MacLeod, had died. While language is generally accepted to be. International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Alistair MacLeod: a man of musicality of language. The relationship between language and music has long been of interest to scientists and scholars in many fields. Suzan-Lori Parkss The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World. Recognition of symbolist influence on composition, and, in the case of works for the stage, on production and performance expands the repertory of music we can view critically through the lens of symbolism, developing not only our understanding of music's role in this difficult and often contradictory aesthetic philosophy but also our perception of fin-de-siècle musical culture in general. The Musicality of Language: Redefining History in. The musical works evaluated as case studies are Antoine Mariotte's Salomé, Richard Strauss's Salomé, Aleksandr Glazunov's Introduction et La Danse de Salomée, and Florent Schmitt's La Tragédie de Salomé. Keywords: musical ability, musicality, FL pronunciation, AMMA, pronunciation proficiency. Defining the Biological Bases of Individual Differences in Musicality. Neural Overlap in Processing Music and Speech. Take for example the word pena (pain, punishment, ): here the first vowel has a normal duration and comparable to the second one, while the n is barely perceptible, almost only a support of the language. The relationship between language and music has long. The intrinsic dance, the musicality that is often atributed to our language is probably due to this peculiarity, which creates a very interesting change in respect to the preceding vowels. Finding the Beat: A Neural Perspective across Humans and Nonhuman Primates. THE MUSICALITY OF LANGUAGE An Application of Musical Analysis to Speech and Writing. I investigate the musical responses of four different composers to a single symbolist text, Oscar Wilde's one-act play Salomé, written in French in 1891, as case studies in order to elucidate how a symbolist musicality of language informed their creation, performance, and critical reception. acquisition of foreign language pronunciation. Searching for the Origins of Musicality across Species. My scholarship reveals that symbolist musical works across genres share an approach to composition rooted in the symbolist concept of musicality of language, a concept that shapes this music on sonic, structural, and conceptual levels. Contrary to previous categorizations of music as symbolist based on a characteristic "sound," I argue that symbolist aesthetics demonstrably influenced musical construction and reception. In this dissertation, I explore the musical prosody of the literary symbolists and the influence of this prosody on fin-de-siècle French music.