A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) PDF
A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) PDF The human singing voice holds immense power – to convey mood, emotion, and identity in songs, provide music’s undeniable “wow” moments, and communicate a pop song’s meaning perhaps more than any other musical parameter. And unlike the other aspects of musical content – like harmony, form, melody, and rhythm, for which generations of scholars have formed sophisticated analyses – scholarly approaches to vocal delivery remain grossly underdeveloped. An exciting and much-needed new approach, A Blaze of Light in Every Word presents a systematic and encompassing conceptual model for analyzing vocal delivery. Author Victoria Malawey focuses on three overlapping areas of inquiry – pitch, prosody, and quality – while drawing on research from music theory and pedagogy as well as gender studies and philosophy to situates the sonic and materi...