The Neutral Tone as a Function of Folk-song Text
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20376802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George W Boswell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Pages | 127-132 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0316-6082 • E-ISSN: 2631-5769 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/767430 |
| OpenAlex | W2797035443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
One of the most striking and distinctive phenomena in folk singing is the neutral tone, that note which cannot be rendered on a fretted or keyboard instrument, a note that is most at home not in art song but on the lips of an untrained traditional singer. Samuel P. Bayard gave it the place of honor on his list of six “mannerisms of performance that are profoundly instructive as to the past of the folksong art,” especially as regards “the presence of neutral and variable intervals and of quarter-tones in the folk scales.”
Acoustics · Art · Folk song · Honor · Literature · Physics · Singing · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 1977 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |