Towards a comparative history of tonal text-setting practices in Southeast Asia

James Kirby

Towards a comparative history of tonal text-setting practices in Southeast Asia

James Kirby

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Abstract

A tone language is a language in which differences in pitch are used to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning. While most modern Western European languages do not make use of pitch in this way, by some estimates up to 70% of the world’s languages may be tonal, including many of the world’s most widely spoken languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Punjabi, and Yoruba.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transcultural Music History
Subtitle of host publication	Global Participation and Regional Diversity in the Modern Age
Editors	Reinhard Strohm
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
Chapter	15
Pages	291-312
ISBN (Print)	9783861356561
Publication status	Published - 16 Jan 2021

Publication series

Name	Intercultural Music Studies
Publisher	Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
Number	24

Singing in tone: text setting constraints in SE Asia
Kirby, J. (Principal Investigator)
AHRC
26/01/15 → 25/01/17
Project: Research

Balzan Workshop-Conference "Places of Interaction: Histories of Music and Dance in India, Africa, and South-East Asia"
Kirby, J. (Invited speaker)
16 Jun 2016
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

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Transcultural Music History : Global Participation and Regional Diversity in the Modern Age. ed. / Reinhard Strohm. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2021. p. 291-312 (Intercultural Music Studies; No. 24).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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Towards a comparative history of tonal text-setting practices in Southeast Asia

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Singing in tone: text setting constraints in SE Asia

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Balzan Workshop-Conference "Places of Interaction: Histories of Music and Dance in India, Africa, and South-East Asia"

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