Musical pitch in nonsense syllables - correlations with the vowel system and evolutionary perspectives
dc.contributor.author | Fenk-Oczlon, Gertraud | |
dc.contributor.author | Fenk, August | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-08-03T06:22:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-08-03T06:22:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/20863 | |
dc.description.abstract | In a first step we present correspondences between the inventories of vowel systems and musical scales across cultures. These correspondences concern an upper limit of roughly 12 elements, a lower limit of 2-3 elements and the 5-vowel systems and pentatonic scales as the most frequent patterns. Since vowels play a decisive role in generating the sound or the sonority of syllables that in turn are basic units of both speech and singing, these parallels are considered as a possible link between language and music. Furthermore we found correspondences between vowel pitch and musical pitch in Alpine yodellers whose text entirely consisted of nonsense syllables: A succession of the vowels [i] and [o] in meaningless syllables was most often accompanied by a succession of high and low pitch in melody. In other Austrian folksongs containing only several passages of nonsense syllables, the present study shows a similar correlation, i.e. a coincidence of the vowel [i] with the highest pitch in melody. These coincidences between the vowel system and musical intervals shall be discussed in regard of a possible evolution of music and speech out of a half-musical precursor. | en |
dc.format.extent | 110-113 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.title | Musical pitch in nonsense syllables - correlations with the vowel system and evolutionary perspectives | en |
dc.type | conference paper | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2009411246 | |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | |
dc.type.coar | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | |
dc.relation.conference | ESCOM 2009 : 7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music | |
dc.format.content | fulltext | |
dc.rights.url | https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ |
Aineistoon kuuluvat tiedostot
Aineisto kuuluu seuraaviin kokoelmiin
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ESCOM 2009 [101]
7th Triennial Conference of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music