Speech and music relations: United by prosody

• Valentyna Marchenko ^[1]
  1. [1] National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
• Localización: Tendencias actuales en fonética experimental: Cruce de disciplinas en el centenario del Manual de Pronunciación Española (Tomás Navarro Tomás) / coord. por Victoria Marrero Aguiar, Eva Estebas Vilaplana, 2017, ISBN 978-84-697-7855-5, págs. 121-124
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the present study we investigate the way speech intonation and music intonation may interact within a song. The research is conducted within the scope of Speech Energetic Theory, mostly employing its idea of the emotional-and-pragmatic potential. Compiled by aptly selected language means, the emotional-and-pragmatic potential is believed to convey the general emotional and pragmatic message of a poem and serve as a reference point for the composer when setting the poem to music. We ran an experiment in which we compared emotional-and-pragmatic potentials of poetic texts and songs based on those poetic texts. The level of emotional-and-pragmatic potentials were firstly determined perceptively by the informants and afterwards verified instrumentally by using specifically developed formula for emotional-and-pragmatic potential evaluation. Overall, the pattern of the results indicates that despite the revealed differences, there is a profound link between speech and music and this link is predominantly mediated by intonation.