From Vocal Poetry to Song : Towards a Theory of Song Objects.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Note to the reader -- Introduction -- Theoretical approaches -- Conceptual movement ... opera in movimento -- Denominative neology -- Learned and popular debate on the standards for the song -- Use of empirical vocabulary -- Chapter 1 Vocal poetry in mountains and dales -- Historical approaches -- Subject of polysemiotic study -- Historical vision -- Performance -- Theme and style -- Creative process -- Song in a literary text -- Status of text and status of music -- Chapter 2 Parallel linearities: Poetry and music -- Chapter 3 Componential mutations of the song object -- Determining the nature of song object -- Variation and hybridity -- Folklorisation process: Notes for some concepts -- Neology, definition of song vocabulary and examples of song objects' transformation -- Internal hybrid song -- External hybrid song -- External variation in textual components of a signed song -- External variation in musical components of a signed song -- Polymorphous song -- Signed folklorised song -- Oralised signed song -- Hybrid signed song -- Literalised traditional song -- Chapter 4 Popular song and its 'popular' epithet -- When popular renders the meaning of the song -- Description in the Trésor de la langue française -- Song of the street, street song -- 'Popular' song and Romanticism -- Discarding the concept of /coming from the people/ -- Popular music and popular song -- Chapter 5 Moral and aesthetic divisions -- Distinction between music and text of lyrical poetry -- Good song and exacting song -- Paradoxical status of the song -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of notions.

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