Speech Music Sound

Speech Music Sound presents an entirely original approach to the theory of sound. Drawing on a wide range of phonetic linguistic pragmatic semiotic and musicological sources it concentrates on the communicative roles of aural perspective rhythm melody and timbre in music as well as speech everyday soundscapes and film and television soundtracks. It applies linguistic concepts such as turntaking to music and musical concepts such as harmony to speech. And it also contains a chapter on aural realism again in relation to music speech and contemporary sound design.