Song and significance : virtues and vices of vocal translation / [edited by] Dinda L. Gorlée.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gorlée, Dinda L.

Conference Name:

International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies (2003 : Hensinki, Finland)

Series:

Approaches to translation studies ; v. 25.

Approaches to translation studies ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocal music--Translating.

Vocal music.

Translating and interpreting.

Genre:

Vocal music.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

311 pages : music ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.

Summary:

Vocal translation is an old art, but the interpretive feeling, skill and craft have expanded into a relatively new area in translation studies. Vocal translation is the translation of the poetic discourse in the hybrid art of the musicopoetic (or poeticomusical) forms, shapes and skills. This symbiotic construct harmonizes together the conflicting roles of music and language in face-to-face singing performances. ...] In opera, folksong, hymn and art song, as well as in operetta, musical song and popular song, we have musical genres allied to a libretto with lyrical text. A libretto is a linguistic textwhich is a pre-existing work of art, but is subordinated to the musical text. The essays in this volume provide interpretive models for the juxtaposition of different orders of the singing sign-events in different languages, extending the meaning and range of the musical and literary concepts, and putting the mixed signs to a true-and-false test.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Proceedings of a seminar, Song and Significance: Intralingual and Intersemiotic Vocal Translation, which was part of the 2003 International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies.

ISBN:

9042016876

OCLC:

62273930