Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs

by Ilse Lehiste and Jaan Ross

The Kalevala, or runic, songs is a tradition at least a few thousand years old. It was shared by Finns, Estonians and other speakers of smaller Baltic-Finnic languages inhabiting the eastern side of the Baltic Sea in North-Eastern Europe. This book offers a combined perspective of a musicologist and a linguist to the structure of the runic songs. Archival recordings of the songs originating mostly from the first half of the 20th century were used...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110170329
• ISBN13: 9783110170320
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary