Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Birthe Traerup. "Albanian Singers in Kosovo." Trans. from the Danish by John Bergsagel. In Festschrift Ernst Emsheimer. Ed. Gustav Hillestrom. Musikhistoriska Museets Skrifter, 5. Studia Instrumentorum Musicae Popularis, 3. Stockholm: Musikhistoriska Museet. pp. 244-51, 300.

An extensive, articulate description of Albanian singers and oral performance in a section of Yugoslavia, with emphasis on the role (and control) of the audience, the instruments used to accompany vocal performance, singers' repertoires, and song structure. Concentrates on the nature of melodic formulas and the form of narrative and lyric songs. Includes some comparison to SC tradition.
Area: AB, MU, SC, CP