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Blankenhorn, Virginia, Irish song-craft and metrical practice since 1600, Irish Studies, 8, Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

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Irish song-craft and metrical practice since 1600
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Edwin Mellen Press
Year
2003
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This work is a systematic analysis and classification of Irish accentual verse-metres. It will interest linguists and students of metre, as well as ethnomusicologists studying the context of Irish traditional song, and musicologists studying the historical development of European song-forms. An assessment of previous contributions to the study of Irish verse-practice is followed by a general survey of metrical scholarship, which in turn lays the groundwork for a metrical theory of Irish accentual verse. Space is devoted to a phenomenologically-based discussion of the role of rhythm in spoken Irish and its implications for verse-structure. The heart of the work consists of a taxonomical survey of Irish accentual verse-types, in which the principal criterion for inclusion in a given category is the number of stressed syllables in a line. Following chapters deal with stanzaic and supra-stanzaic structure and verse-ornament, the musical context of verse, the ways in which musical metre differs from verse metre, and the implications of such differences for a system of versification primarily transmitted through a musical medium.
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Table of contents (main headings): Preface; Foreword
[1] “‘Tórna’ and later editors (Rosg, Laoidh Fiannuíochta, Caoineadh, Amhrán)”
[2] “Metrical models”
[3] “The rhythm of Irish verse”
[4] “Two- and three-stress lines”
[5] “The phrasal construction of Irish verse”
[6] “Four-stress line types”
[7] “Five-stress line types”
[8] “Six-stress line types (rócán, crosántacht)”
[9] “Seven-stress line types (ochtfhoclach)”
[10] “Eight-stress and longer lines”
[11] “Stanzaic and supra-stanzaic forms (ceangal, trí rann agus amhrán)”
[12] “Ornamentation”
[13] “The musical context of verse (popular song, lament-music, prayers, 17th-century Munster verse; Ossianic lays)”
Appendices; Bibliography; Indices
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Dennis Groenewegen
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