[Lingtyp] transcribing songs in linguistics articles

[Adam James Ross Tallman]

Thanks Tony, Lev and Peter!

I suppose I was naively thinking someone might have proposed some Leipzig
glossing rules style notation for representing song in linguistics papers.

best,

Adam

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 8:26 PM Woodbury, Anthony C <
woodbury at austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Adam and Lev. An excellent specific example is:
>
> Barwick, Linda; Birch, Bruce & Evans, Nicholas. 2007. Iwaidja _Jurtbirrk_
> songs: Bringing language and music together. Australian Aboriginal Studies
> 2007/2: 6-34.
>
> Also by Linda:  ‘Including music and the temporal arts in language
> documentation’, pp. 166-179 in Nick Thieberger, ed. (2012) The Oxford
> Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork. OUP.
>
> And from a different era and perspective, there’s also this:
>
> Lerdahl, Fred & Jackendoff, Ray. 1983. A generative theory of tonal music.
> MIT Press.
>
> Basically, there are many ways of representing music, musical performance,
> and music in relation to speech, and these multiply even more when you
> consider work not only by linguists but also linguistic anthropologists and
> musicologists. The key is to think carefully about what facets of the
> overall ’text’ you want to consider, highlight, and analyze, and then
> devise perspicuous ways of showing it. One size does NOT fit all!
>
> Tony
>
>
>
> On Jun 10, 2021, at 1:00 PM, lingtyp-request at listserv.linguistlist.org
> wrote:
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:36:36 -0700
> From: Lev Michael <levmichael at berkeley.edu>
> To: lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 81, Issue 10
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> Hi Adam,
>
> There is a lot of work on this topic by Americanist linguists and
> linguistic anthropologists influenced by the ethnopoetics tradition. There
> are many possible things to mention, but the two following collections will
> get you into that literature:
>
> Sherzer, J. and Woodbury, A.C. eds., 1987. Native American discourse:
> Poetics and rhetoric. Cambridge University Press.
>
> Sherzer, J. and Urban, G. eds., 2010. Native South American discourse.
> Walter de Gruyter.
>
> Regards,
> Lev
>
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Adam J.R. Tallman
Post-doctoral Researcher
Friedrich Schiller Universität
Department of English Studies
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