The music of dialect
Supplemental materials for The music of dialect.
Figure 1
Figure 1: Excerpt from No Barriers (Jason Noble, 2022)
Figure 2
Figure 2: Excerpt and spectrographic sketches from Concerning King (Rolph Wallin, 2006)
Figure 3
Figure 3: Spectrographs of three guitar pluck positions (1cm, 16cm, and 32cm from the bridge) on open string III (G3).
Figure 4
Figure 4: spectrographs of three vowels (I, a, u; male voice).
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Figure 6
Figure 6: Example of a table from Clarke (2010) using IPA symbols to compare three major dialect families of Newfoundland English.
Figure 7
Figure 7: Map of Newfoundland identifying communities we visited on our tour, with dialectal influences and photos.
Figure 8
Figure 8: Sonic Visualizer fundamental frequency tracking of speech melody.
Figure 9
Figure 9: Three possible pitch transcriptions of the speech example from Figure 8.
Figure 10
Figure 10a: Examples of rhythmic notation in Gone For All Night.
Figure 10: Examples of rhythmic notation in (a) Gone For All Night and (b) No Barriers.
Figure 11
Figure 11: The same rhythm (durational pattern) notated in four different metres.
Figure 12
Figure 12: Examples of recordings and transcriptions of clear metres emerging locally in speech.
Figure 13
Figure 13: Traube’s diagram of correspondences between pluck positions and vowel timbres.
Figure 14
Figure 14: Our system of pluck positions and corresponding vowel timbres, adapted from Traube.
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Figure 15: Two guitar performances of the same speech transcription: A. FLAT with no position changes, and B. VOWELS with position changes.
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Figure 16: Timbral transcription, with pluck positions indicated by IPA vowel symbols over the guitar notes.
Figure 17
Figure 17: A speech clip and a resynthesized version created by concatenating a library of guitar sounds.
Figure 18
Figure 18: A speech clip and a resynthesized version created by extracting and time-stretching selected partials.
Figure 19
Figure 19: A speech clip and three processed versions.
Figure 20
Figure 20: Lyrics and recitation of The Shabby Genteel.
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Figure 22
Figure 22: Excerpt of score and recording of we never told nobody.
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Figure 23: Excerpt of score and recording of One Foot in the Past.
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Figure 24: Excerpt of score and recording of Take Me Back.
Timbre and Orchestration Writings
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