Singing in Tone Languages - Partial Bibliography

Agawu, V. Kofi. (1988). Tone and Tune: The Evidence for Northern Ewe Music. Africa. 58(2). 127-146.

Agawu, V. Kofi. (1995). African rhythm: A northern Ewe perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Agawu, V. Kofi. (2003). Representing African music. New York: Routledge.

Baart, Joan L. G. (2004). Tone and song in Kalam Kohistani (Pakistan). Retrieved Oct. 7, 2007, from http://www.geocities.com/kcs_kalam/tskk.pdf

Blacking, John. (1967): Venda Children's Songs Johannesburg: Univ. of Witwatersrand Press.

Bright, William. (1957). Singing in Lushai. Indian Linguistics, 17, 24-28.

Carrington, J. F. (1949) A Comparative Study of some Central African Gong-Languages,PhD dissertation, Brussels

Chan, Marjorie. (1987a). Tone and Melody in Cantonese. Berkeley Linguistics Society; Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting, 29-37.

Chan, Marjorie. (1987b). Tone and Melody Interaction in Cantonese and Mandarin Songs. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 68, 132-169.

Chao, Yuen Ren. (1924). Singing in Chinese Le Maitre Phonetique April-June pp. 9-10. [written in IPA]

Chao, Yuen Ren. (1956). Tone, intonation, singsong, chanting, recitative, tonal composition and atonal composition in Chinese. In M. Halle, H.G. Lunt, H. McLean and C.H. Van Schooneveld (Ed.), For Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, 11th October 1956 (pp. 52-59). The Hague: Monton & Co.

Chernoff, J. M. (1979): African Rhythm and African Sensibility. Aesthetics and Social Action in African Idioms. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press.

Ekwueme, Lazarus N. (1974). Linguistic determinants of some Igbo musical properties. Journal of African Studies, 1(3), 335-353.

Gibbon, Dafydd, Ahoua, Firmin & Kouamé, Adjépolé. (2011). Modelling Speech-Song Relations: An Exploratory Study of Pitch Contours, Tones and Prosodic Domains in Anyi. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. Hong Kong, 743-746.

Herzog, George. (1934). Speech-melody and primitive music. Musical Quarterly, 20, 452-466.

Ho, Wing See Vincie. (2006). The tone-melody interface of popular songs written in tone languages. Paper presented at the 9th international conference on music perception and cognition, Bologna, August 22-26 2006.

Jones, A. M. (1959). Studies in African music (Chapter 10). London: Oxford University Press.

Jungraithmayr, Herrmann (2008) Der perfekte Ton. Zur Dreidimensionalität Afrikanischer Sprachen. Stuttgart: Steiner [ISBN 978-3-515-09207-4]

Kubik, Gerhard. (1988): Zum Verstehen Afrikanischer Musik Leipzig: Philipp Reclam

Kubik, Gerhard. (2001). Africa. In Sadie, S. and Tyrrell, J. (Ed.), The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians (2nd ed., pp. 197-210). London: Macmillan.

Lau, Elaine. (2010). Tone-Melody Relationship in Cantonese. Working Papers in Linguistics: University of Hawai'i at Manoa 41(3), 1-12.

Lawson, Francesca R. Sborgi. (2011). The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language. Ashgate: Farnham and Burlington.

Leben, William R. (1983). On the Correspondence between Linguistic Tone and Musical Melody. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkley Lingusitics Society, 148-157.

Li, Bin & Shuai, Lan. (2011). Relationship between Tone and Tune in Chinese Songs. Proceedings of the Psycholingusitic Representation of Tone Conference, Hong Kong, 36.

List, George. (1961). Speech melody and song melody in central Thailand. Ethnomusicology, 5(1), 16--32.

Liu, Marjory. (1974). The Influence of Tonal Speech on K'unch'ü Opera Style. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, 2(1), 63-86.

Lu, Shu-Jiuan. (2010). Vergleich von Sprachduktus und melodik historischer Aufnahmen der Peking-Oper. Göttingen: Cuvillier.

Lundström, Hakan. (2010). I Will Send My Song: Kammu Vocal Genres in the Singing of Kam Raw. NIAS Press.

Mark, Lindy L. & Li, Fang Kuei. (1966). Speech Tone and Melody in Wu-Ming Folk Songs Artibus Asiae. Supplementum, Vol. 23, Essays Offered to G. H. Luce by His Colleagues and Friends in Honour of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Volume 1: Papers on Asian History, Religion, Languages, Literature, Music Folklore, and Anthropology , 167-186.

Mendenhall, Stanley T. (1975). ‘Interaction of Linguistic and Musical Tone in Thai Song’ in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology. University of California. II 2:17-23.

Morey, Stephen D. (2010) The realisation of tones in traditional Tai Phake songs, in S. Morey and M. Post (eds) North East Indian Linguistics, Volume 2 . Delhi: Cambridge University Press, India. 54-69.

Morey, Stephen D. (in print). Poetic forms in Nocte, Singpho, Tai and Tangsa to appear in G. Hyslop, S. Morey and M. Post (eds) North East Indian Linguistics, Volume 4. Delhi: Cambridge University Press, India.

Patel, A. D., Iversen, J. R., & Rosenberg, J. C. (2006). Comparing the rhythm and melody of speech and music: The case of British English and French. JASA, 119(5), 3034-3047.

Richards, Paul. (1972). A quantitative analysis of the relationship between language tone and melody in a Hausa song. African Language Studies, 13, 137-161.

Rycroft, David (1959). Linguistic and Melodic Interaction in Zulu Song. Akten des Vierunzwanzigsten Internationalen Oreintalisten-Kongresses, 24, 726-729.

Saurman, Mary. (2006). Thai speech tones and melodic pitches: How they work together or collide. EM News 5,4: 1-6.

Schellenberg, Murray. (2009). Singing in a Tone Language: Shona. In Selected Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, ed. Akinloye Ojo and Lioba Moshi, 137-144. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #2193.

Schellenberg, Murray. (2011). Tone Contour Realization in Sung Cantonese. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. Hong Kong, 1754-1757.

Schellenberg, Murray (2012) Does Language Determine Music in Tone Languages? Ethnomusicology. 52 (2) 266-278.

Schneider, Marius. (1942). Phonetische und metrische Kerrelationen bei gesprochen und gesungenen Ewe-Texten. Archiv für Vergleichende Phonetik, 7(1/2), 1-6.

Schneider, Marius. (1950). La relation entre la melodie et le langue dans la musique Chinoise. Anuario Musical, 5, 62-69.

Schneider, Marius. (1961). Tone and tune in West African music. Ethnomusicology, 5(3), 204-215.

Sebeok, Thomas; Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok (eds.)(1976) Speech Surrogates: Drum and Whistle Systems. Volume I and II, 1456 pages(!), The Hague: Mouton

Solis, Micheal. (2010). Tune-Tone Relationships in Sung Duna Pikono. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 30(1), 67-80.

Starke, Amy. (1930). The relation between the intonation of song and of speech among the Amaxosa.(unpublished M.A. Thesis) University of Cape Town.

Stock, Jonathan P. J. (1999). A reassessment of the relationship between text, melody and aria structure in Beijing opera. Journal of Musicological Research, 18, 183-206.

Van Lancker, D. and Fromkin, V. (1977) ‘Cerebral dominance for pitch contrasts in tone language speakers and in musically untrained and trained English speakers’, University of California, Los Angeles, Working Papers in Linguistics 36:41-48.

Wade, Bonnie (ed.)(1993) Text, Tone, and Tune. Parameters of Music in Multicultural Perspective. With Audio Cassette, 241 p., New Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta: Oxford & IBH Publishing

Ward, W. E. (1932). Music of the Gold Coast. The Musical Times, 73(1047), 707-710.

Ware, Vicki Anne. (2006). Stylistic and cultural transformations in Bangkok fusion music from 1850 to the present day, leading to the development of Dontri Thai Prayuk. PhD Thesis, School of Music, Faculty of Arts, Monash University.

Wee, L. H. (2007). Unraveling the relation between Mandarin tones and musical melody. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 35(1), 128-143.

Williamson, Muriel C. (1981). The correlation between speech-tones of text-syllables and their musical setting in a Burmese classical song. Musica Asiatica 3:11-28 (Ed. Laurence Picken).

Wong, Patrick M., & Diehl, Randy L. (2002). How can the lyrics of a song in a tone language be understood? Psychology of Music, 30(2), 202-209.

Yung, Bell. (1983). Creative process in Cantonese opera I: The role of linguistic tones. Ethnomusicology, 27, 29-47.

Yung, Bell. (1984). Model Opera as Model. in B. S. McDougall (ed.) Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China 1949-1979 Berkeley: University of California Press. 144-164.

Zhang, Ling. (2011). Cantonese Lexical Tones in Speaking and Singing. Proceedings of the Psycholingusitic Representation of Tone Conference, Hong Kong, 32-35.

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