Repetitions, Rest Insertion and Schwa in 16th Century French Polyphony: An Emergent Sub-Grammar in Fresneau's Songs?
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2021
- handle: 10670/1.zab059
- isbn: 978-1-53619-888-1
- hal: hal-03353521
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Textsetting Constituents matching French 16th century polyphony dialectal grammar Final schwa Schwa Polyphonic Music Dialectal variationSujets proches
Grammar, Polyglot Grammar Polyglot grammar Comparative grammar Grammar Grammar, Philosophical Language and languages--Grammar, Comparative Grammar, Universal Philosophical grammarCiter ce document
Timothée Premat et al., « Repetitions, Rest Insertion and Schwa in 16th Century French Polyphony: An Emergent Sub-Grammar in Fresneau's Songs? », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10670/1.zab059
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This chapter is about constituents matching grammar in textsetting. If most traditional stanzaic French songs show textsetting configurations that are predictable given a widely spread grammar, it does not seem to be the case for Henry Fresneau’s songs. Indeed these 16th century polyphonic songs show a specific use of derivations of the text, rests insertion and final schwa elision. Comparing Fresneau’s songs to others’, we try to establish if these matchings can be generated by the same grammar, or if Fresneau’s songs need a specific one. Using Optimality Theory, we show that most of Fresneau’s grammar can be implemented inside a wider diasystemic grammar, but that the final schwa elision in Fresneau’s songs requires the activation of new constraints. We propose to analyze it as a dialectalization of the textsetting grammar, and we outline a model for the emergence of this sub-grammar.