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Eavesdropping with a Master: Leoš Janáček and the Music of Speech
2006
Empirical Musicology Review
The composer Leo Janá ek has been noted for his interest in speech melodies. Little discussion has focused however on the field methods that he used in gathering them, nor on the products themselves. Janá ek spent more than three decades, transcribing thousands of what he termed náp vky mluvy [tunelets of speech] in standard musical notation. The record that remains of these efforts is impressive both for its volume and its quality, as well as for its potential to reveal aspects of the
doi:10.18061/1811/24010
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