Ukrainian stress

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

Dear colleagues,
In 1981 I published a quantitative study of stress shifts in the  
recitation of Russian poetry by a sample of 20 native speakers  
(including 3 published poets).  This sort of thing happens with  
literary as well as folk poetry:

"Stress Shifts Induced by Syllabotonic Rhythm," Russian Literature 10,  
31-48.

With regards to the list,
Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

http://Rancour-Laferriere.com




On May 2, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Dan Newton wrote:

> What's particularly interesting in this case is that it's such an  
> about-face from Musorgskii's own approach in his other unfinished  
> Gogol opera, Zhenit'ba, in which the musical line is subordinated to  
> text to an almost unperformable degree.  Richard Taruskin has  
> pointed to the particular stress issue I'm questioning as evidence  
> of Mussorgskii's eschewal of kuchkist values.  The influence of  
> folksong practice that Ralph Cleminson and Olga Meerson mention is  
> undoubtedly on the money, and I'm grateful for it.  In _general_,  
> however, I would like to point out that failure to match up a  
> stressed syllable in the text with an accent in the melodic line is  
> the hallmark of bad songwriting, the equivalent of a poetic line  
> that doesn't scan -- which is why this particular phrase is such a  
> curiosity, from a composer of such famous songwriting genius.
> Dan
>
> On May 2, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Chew G wrote:
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