Svan Funeral Dirges (Zär): Language-Music Relation and Phonetic Properties

Frank SCHERBAUM; Nana MZHAVANADZE

doi:https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.875348

Makale detayları

Svan Funeral Dirges (Zär): Language-Music Relation and Phonetic Properties

Yazarlar:

Frank SCHERBAUM | Nana MZHAVANADZE

Yayıncı:

Trabzon University

Ana Başlıklar:

Müzik

Dergi:

Musicologist 2021 Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.66-82

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000592997

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2618-5652

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.875348

Özet:

 

This paper reports on the results of a follow-up study to Scherbaum and Mzhavanadze (2020) and Mzhavanadze and Scherbaum (2020), which jointly describe the acoustical and musicological properties, respectively, of a new collection of field recordings of three-voiced Svan funeral dirges, known as zär in Svan and zari in Georgian. The focus of the present work is on language–music relation and phonetic properties. It was motivated by the pioneering work of Bolle Zemp (1994; 1997; 2001), who for the first time examined this topic from both an ethnomusicological and a linguistic perspective. We revisit some of Bolle Zemp’s observations and assumptions with a substantially expanded (by a factor of 11) data set and by using computational phonetic analysis tools not available at the time of her study.  Her observation of correlations between pitch, duration, and timbre features related to the interjection of woj (wai) is consistent with our analysis for only some of the singers. Therefore, rather than assigning a general semantic meaning to these correlations, we offer an alternative interpretation as a natural consequence of the formant tuning techniques, which we found employed in the vocal production of some of the singers.  .

Makale detayları

Svan Funeral Dirges (Zär): Language-Music Relation and Phonetic Properties

Yazarlar: Frank SCHERBAUM | Nana MZHAVANADZE

Yayıncı: Trabzon University

Ana Başlıklar: Müzik

Dergi: Musicologist 2021 Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.66-82

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000592997

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2618-5652

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.875348

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Frank SCHERBAUM | Nana MZHAVANADZE

Yayıncı:

Trabzon University

Ana Başlıklar:

Müzik

Dergi:

Musicologist 2021 Vol.5 Issue 1, pp.66-82

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000592997

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2618-5652

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.875348