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Title Song and significance : virtues and vices of vocal translation / [edited by] Dinda L. Gorlée
Published Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations, music
Series Approaches to translation studies ; v. 25
Approaches to translation studies ; v. 25.
Contents Table of Contents; Prelude and Acknowledgements; Singing on the Breath of God: Preface to Life and Growth of Translated Hymnody; Musical Rhetoric -- the Translator's Dilemma: A Case for Don Giovanni; Music-Linked Translation [MLT] and Mozart's Operas: Theoretical, Textual, and Practical Perspectives; A Semiotic Clash in Maria Stuarda: Music and Libretto versus the Protestant Version of British History; The Pentathlon Approach to Translating Songs; The Saami Yoik: Translating Hum, Chant, or/and Song; The Plurisemiotics of Pop Song Translation: Words, Music, Voice and Image
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. The artist sings in an accurate but free flow, but sung in a language different from the original lyrics. Vocal translation is a living-together community of composer and poet and trans
Notes 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
Errata slip inserted
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Vocal music -- Translating
Translating and interpreting.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Piano-Vocal-Guitar.
Translating and interpreting
Liederen.
Opera's.
Vertalingen.
Zangkunst.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Gorlée, Dinda L.
International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies (2003 : Hensinki, Finland)
ISBN 1423788257
9781423788256
9042016876
9789042016873
9789401201544
9401201544