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Irish Song-Craft and Metrical Practice Since 1600
A scholar of Celtic languages and literature, Blankenhorn offers a prodigious tome on Irish accentual verse in particular and Gaelic non- syllabic verse in general as it has been composed over the past four centuries. She discusses the pioneering research by Tadhg O Donnchadha, metrical models, the rhythm of Irish verse, lines and line types ranging from two to eight and more stresses, phrasal construction, stanzaic and supra-stanzaic forms, ornamentation, and the musical context of verse. The text is double spaced. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
519 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2003
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